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Academic Collaboration Leaderboards


Explore Leading Academics in Collaboration in Design Worldwide.

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Leaderboards

1

Wei Jingye

(ID #180555)

14.696

Leaderboard Score.

2

Chung Sheng Chen

(ID #179403)

12.758

Leaderboard Score.

3

Beijing Jiaotong University

(ID #352027)

6.804

Leaderboard Score.

4

Guangpeng Yue

(ID #298608)

6.788

Leaderboard Score.

5

Zhou Leijing

(ID #112694)

5.804

Leaderboard Score.

6

Jun Wang

(ID #242053)

5.750

Leaderboard Score.

7

Wenkai Xue

(ID #169667)

5.186

Leaderboard Score.

8

Jun Chen

(ID #297616)

4.640

Leaderboard Score.

9

Weiwei Zhang

(ID #150877)

4.585

Leaderboard Score.

10

Lampo Leong

(ID #244273)

4.429

Leaderboard Score.

11

Zipeng Zhang

(ID #358985)

4.100

Leaderboard Score.

12

Xixi Quan, Kau Chan and Junming Chen

(ID #336552)

2.624

Leaderboard Score.

13

Wu Wenqi

(ID #360992)

2.500

Leaderboard Score.

14

Renato Procopio

(ID #363225)

2.500

Leaderboard Score.

15

Chunsheng Shi

(ID #366356)

2.500

Leaderboard Score.

16

Udem Universidad de Monterrey

(ID #342051)

2.452

Leaderboard Score.

17

Feng Yuxin

(ID #349724)

2.329

Leaderboard Score.

18

Lu Yi

(ID #301391)

1.604

Leaderboard Score.

19

Shape Memory Technology

(ID #360556)

1.600

Leaderboard Score.

20

He Xiayun

(ID #366728)

1.600

Leaderboard Score.

21

Shih-Yuan Wang and Yu-Ting Sheng

(ID #339425)

1.600

Leaderboard Score.

22

Team JIZAI ARMS

(ID #341989)

1.600

Leaderboard Score.

23

Jintao Li

(ID #327709)

1.420

Leaderboard Score.

24

I-Jen Sung

(ID #352094)

1.296

Leaderboard Score.

25

Yao Lu, Zhou Yun, Zhou Xu

(ID #346904)

1.296

Leaderboard Score.

26

Moohan Kim

(ID #345949)

1.224

Leaderboard Score.

27

Zeyuan Zhang

(ID #245646)

1.156

Leaderboard Score.

28

Yang Pu and Ding Wen Nic Bao

(ID #340839)

985

Leaderboard Score.

29

Jobs Chin, Alon J and Ye Nan

(ID #359179)

900

Leaderboard Score.

30

Nataliia Vergunova

(ID #363771)

900

Leaderboard Score.

31

Songruoyao Wu

(ID #361533)

900

Leaderboard Score.

32

Ching Lee, Jeanne Tan and Jun Jong Tan

(ID #363268)

900

Leaderboard Score.

33

Zhiyuan Chen

(ID #365132)

900

Leaderboard Score.

34

Mauro Chiarella and Veizaga-Gronda team

(ID #292611)

900

Leaderboard Score.

35

Ziqiang He

(ID #276318)

829

Leaderboard Score.

36

Liang Hou

(ID #360999)

800

Leaderboard Score.

37

Beijing Forestry University

(ID #353723)

729

Leaderboard Score.

38

Wei Sun

(ID #331018)

729

Leaderboard Score.

39

Dayan Shangguan Design Team

(ID #351914)

729

Leaderboard Score.

40

Erlu Ni

(ID #346805)

648

Leaderboard Score.

41

Can Zhu

(ID #316163)

637

Leaderboard Score.

42

Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

(ID #326951)

637

Leaderboard Score.

43

Chien Yu-Chieh

(ID #335169)

580

Leaderboard Score.

44

Ying Zhou

(ID #287636)

576

Leaderboard Score.

45

Ruiqi Yao

(ID #302246)

576

Leaderboard Score.

46

Ali Shtarbanov

(ID #302495)

576

Leaderboard Score.

47

BBMLab Bio-Based Materials Design Lab

(ID #333728)

576

Leaderboard Score.

48

Jian Sun

(ID #334250)

576

Leaderboard Score.

49

Xi Zhao, Shaoyang Ren,Gang Li,Jiaqi Xuan

(ID #332171)

576

Leaderboard Score.

50

Yen Chang

(ID #336861)

576

Leaderboard Score.

51

Jun Zhou

(ID #337842)

576

Leaderboard Score.

52

Gizem Deniz Guneri

(ID #320198)

576

Leaderboard Score.

53

Jiang Wu

(ID #312720)

520

Leaderboard Score.

54

Rosalie Hsin-Ju Lin

(ID #337965)

512

Leaderboard Score.

55

Zhixiang Tao

(ID #343351)

512

Leaderboard Score.

56

Yongjun Chen

(ID #296140)

468

Leaderboard Score.

57

Hye Jun Youn

(ID #325737)

441

Leaderboard Score.

58

Yongjun Chen, Huang Zhang, Lei Xu

(ID #272558)

400

Leaderboard Score.

59

Wenyang Zhang

(ID #357835)

400

Leaderboard Score.

60

Zirui Yu

(ID #362394)

400

Leaderboard Score.

61

Haoran Nie

(ID #363786)

400

Leaderboard Score.

62

Jialu Hou

(ID #364735)

400

Leaderboard Score.

63

Billy Shevriyanto

(ID #365086)

400

Leaderboard Score.

64

Chongjun Zhong

(ID #360991)

400

Leaderboard Score.

65

Jiaxing Yu

(ID #366292)

400

Leaderboard Score.

66

Huaibo Zhu

(ID #366844)

400

Leaderboard Score.

67

Lorenzo Brandola

(ID #363606)

400

Leaderboard Score.

68

亦民 徐

(ID #348612)

324

Leaderboard Score.

69

QUT School of Design

(ID #354396)

324

Leaderboard Score.

70

Children's Hospital Wayfinding Team

(ID #354650)

324

Leaderboard Score.

71

Ruilin Ouyang

(ID #345978)

324

Leaderboard Score.

72

Sirong Yang

(ID #344637)

324

Leaderboard Score.

73

Xiaojing Su

(ID #346922)

324

Leaderboard Score.

74

Kun Chen

(ID #348461)

324

Leaderboard Score.

75

Jiajuan Li

(ID #334451)

256

Leaderboard Score.

76

Liu Song, Chai Jing, Zhang Zhixin

(ID #334796)

256

Leaderboard Score.

77

Lin Zhong-Wei

(ID #335164)

256

Leaderboard Score.

78

Xingzhuo Chen

(ID #337895)

256

Leaderboard Score.

79

I-D Tech of Nile University

(ID #343345)

256

Leaderboard Score.

80

Michael Budig

(ID #254077)

225

Leaderboard Score.

81

Gang Wang

(ID #261430)

225

Leaderboard Score.

82

Wang Jinhua

(ID #321885)

196

Leaderboard Score.

83

Shumeng Hou

(ID #281520)

144

Leaderboard Score.

84

Antonia Fedder

(ID #286911)

144

Leaderboard Score.

85

Guo Hongyu

(ID #276041)

144

Leaderboard Score.

86

Lingguang Chen

(ID #299440)

144

Leaderboard Score.

87

Ding Jian

(ID #179936)

100

Leaderboard Score.

88

Hane R., Mitsue G. M., Togo K., Yash B.

(ID #254552)

100

Leaderboard Score.

89

Sean Wei-Zhe Lin

(ID #255258)

100

Leaderboard Score.

90

Liliana Soares

(ID #270118)

100

Leaderboard Score.

91

Zhao Yan

(ID #141671)

54

Leaderboard Score.

Design Leaderboard Features


Time-relevant rankings to discover who is best today.

Global Rankings

Respects and honors the absolute best designers in all categories, in all countries, in all groups.

Category Rankings

Recognizes the excellent success of outstanding designers for a given design industry.

In-Group Rankings

Celebrates the success of professional designers, design agencies, start-ups, and large enterprises distinctly.

In-Year Rankings

Provides insights into who is/was best of best in design in a given year, for all categories, all countries, all groups.

Metal Rankings

Distinguishes and clusters designers based on their design award achievement levels.

Group × Category

Honours the very best professional designers, design agencies and brands within a given category.

Group × Year

Highlights the outstanding achievements of designers, design agencies and brands for a given year.

Group × Metal

Provides insights into design award achievements of large brands, design agencies and design professionals.

Designer Profiles

Promotes high-ranking designers in the design leaderboards with statistics and historical data.

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Prestigious Rankings and Ratings for Good Design

There are many prestigious rankings and ratings systems for design, but most of these focus on life-time achievements or popuplarity. Design Leaderboards is all about recent successes, helping you discover rising talents and most innovative brands today.

Premium Features


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Meritocratic

Design Leaderboards are achievement based rankings.

Time Relevant

Latest and current achievements have higher weight for rankings.

Infographics

Ranked entities are provided free Design Leaderboard Infographics.

Certificate

Ranked entities are provided free Design Leaderboards Certificate.

Universal

Rankings are inclusive for all design industries from all countries.

Recognition

Design Leaderboards recognizes outstanding designers.

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Popular Questions


Time-relevancy is the main difference. Almost all other prestigious and prominent rankings for good design, such as the World Design Rankings, R+ Designer Rankings, DAC Design Classifications, are based on lifetime achievements of ranked entities; as such any and all past awards and accolades for good design contributes to the rankings with more or less same importance, even if such achievements were over 10 years ago. While this class of rankings respectfully recognize the lifetime achievements of the award-winning entities, because of their focus on lifetime achievements and equal weight for past and recent successes, these systems do not necessarily help you easily discover who is best of best in design, at right this moment. Design Leaderboards is time-relevant and gives exponentially more weight to recent successes of the awarded designers, and helps you discover who is best of best in design today, right now; this is the most significant difference between Design Leaderboards and other meritocratic ranking and rating systems for good design.

Design Leaderboards remove barriers of entry, and reduces gatekeeping. Because most other prestigious and prominent rankings for good design, such as the World Design Rankings, R+ Designer Rankings, DAC Design Classifications, are based on lifetime achievements of ranked entities, this creates a significant barrier of entry for new comers; innovative upstarts, creative young designers, radical start-ups, and newly awarded designers and upcoming brands find it difficult to get listed in other ranking systems where there are entities with dozens if not hundreds of achievements over decades that carry them to the top of the rankings. Journalists and media members use these rankings to feature designers and brands that incorporate good design, as such Design Leaderboards create immense value for newly awarded designers and help them get further recognition, publicity and awareness for their award-winning good designs.

Design Leaderboards platform is run and managed by the A' Design Award and Competition. To get included in the Design Leaderboards, you need to be a winner of the A' Design Award. A' Design Award is an international design accolade for good design where nominated entries are voted by a grand jury panel of prominent academics, influential journalists, and experienced design professionals. Designers from all industries and all countries take part to attain national fame and international prestige. Winners of the A' Design Award are granted the A' Design Prize that includes over 80 benefits such as invitation to Gala-Night in Italy, Physical Exhibition of Awarded Works, pagination and inclusion of awarded works in a Hardcover Yearbook, 3D Metal Printed Award Trophy in luxury black box, printed and framed Certificate, among many other benefits including but not limited to complimentary lifetime inclusion in Design Leaderboards. Read more and enter your works to the A' Design Awards for awards consideration and potential rankings inclusion.

Yes, of course. You will get included in the Design Leaderboards for free if you win the A' Design Award since inclusion in Design Leaderboards is one of the many perks awarded to you within the context of the A' Design Prize. Learn more about the A' Design Prize now.

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