Recently, the 2025 Asian Vanguard Art and Design Award (AVADA) winners were announced. Student works from Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University (AADTHU) stood out among over 4,000 entries from dozens of countries and regions worldwide, winning multiple awards with their outstanding design innovation concepts.

Since its launch, this year’s awards attracted active participation from designers, university faculty and students, and art practitioners from China, South Korea, Spain, Poland, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and other countries and regions. The submitted works covered traditional painting, crafts and fine arts, visual communication, product design, environmental art, digital media, fashion design, and cutting-edge fields such as AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content), fully demonstrating the diversity and internationalization of Asian youth design talent.

In this year’s selection, faculty and students from Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University achieved the following outstanding results:

Work Categories

• Silver Award: “IdeaMesh”
Team: Gong Xinjun, Zhang Zipeng, Huang Shengyu, Xiao Lanqian, Zhu Yuxin (Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Harvard University)
Supervising Instructor: Wu Qiong

• Silver Award: “Miao Ying Fu Sheng” (Miao Shadows and Floating Sounds)
Authors: Yu Jiayi, He Yingying (Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University)
Supervising Instructors: Zhang Lie, Li Dong

Organizational Category

Outstanding Organization Award: the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University (recognizing the academy’s outstanding contributions in organizing participation, educational guidance, and international exchange).

The 2025 Asian Vanguard Art and Design Awards bring together professional judges from around the globe, characterized by “professionalism, fairness, internationalization, and support for implementation,” and has become an important international design competition platform in the Asia-Pacific region.