CHINA – The 2023 MUSE Design Award Season 2 have announced the list of winners. With more than 10,000 entries around the world, the esteemed international competition promises to be a celebration of innovation, creativity, and excellence in the field of design.

This season, DB&B has proudly secured two Silver Awards and one Gold Award – Burson Cohn & Wolfe (Silver) located in Beijing, Edelman (Silver) and Ipsos (Gold) both located in Shanghai.

“Our China Team has demonstrated exceptional talent and creativity, earning three prestigious awards in the Muse Design Award 2023 Season Two. This accomplishment is a testament to their dedication and innovative approach to design”, says Billy Siew, Managing Director of DB&B Group.

For more project photos on Burson Cohn & Wolfe Beijing, please click here.  

For more project photos on Edelman Shanghai, please click here. 

For more project photos on Ipsos Shanghai, please click here.

Click here to view other award wins in 2023.

Manila, Philippines – The MUSE Creative and Design Awards, leading competitions that honor creative and design professionals, have released the list of winners for its second competitive season of 2023. The awards saw as many as 6,500 entries submitted from across the world, all vying for a chance to be honored as a MUSE. 

For this competitive season, DB&B Philippines walks away victorious with two awards – GoTyme (Gold) and Arcadis (Silver). “We are deeply proud of our Philippines team who has worked so hard to go beyond the brief and do things differently. These awards are testament to our vision of always making a difference in the work we do,” says Billy Siew, Managing Director of DB&B Group.  

For our full design story on GoTyme, please read here. 

For our full design story on Arcadis, please read here.  

Considered an industry seal of excellence, the DEA 2022 received a total of 246 entries in two tracks: The Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) for completed built projects by industry professionals; and the Spatial Design Awards (SPADE) for completed academic projects by design students. The IDEA section received 162 IDEA entries in 26 categories, while the SPADE section received 84 entries in the 9 student categories.
“IDCS received entries from Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, China, India, South Korea, Philippines and Thailand, and the variety of projects across countries made it very interesting to judge,” said Mr Cameron Woo, President of IDCS.

“We are very honoured to be recognised by IDCS once again. For both projects, our teams sought to help the companies achieve their operational and branding goals while envisioning offices of the future. We are motivated and will constantly challenge ourselves to create resilient and purpose-driven designs, “says Jeanette Siew, Executive Director of DB&B.

Click here to read the full design story for Amazon.

Click here to read the full design story for SAP.

CHINA, SHANGHAI – The 2022 MUSE Design Awards Season 2 have officially drawn to a close, after officially announcing the winners. With well over 6,000 entries entered from all over the world, the competition has shown itself to be one of the leading programs in honoring creative and design excellence.

This year, DB&B clinched two Gold Awards in the competition for season 2. The winning works were created for Foliday and Bright Power Semiconductors – both projects are located in Shanghai.  “We are thankful to have secured this double win amongst thousands of design entries – this is a recognition of our hard work and a motivation for our team to continuously innovate and create forward-thinking work spaces.” says Billy Siew, Co-Founder and Managing Director of DB&B.

For our full design story on Foliday, please read here.

For our full design story on Bright Power Semiconductors, please read here.

Click here to read about our other MUSE Design award Season 1 wins in 2022.

About MUSE Awards

The MUSE Awards is a series of international competitions hosted by the International Awards Associate (IAA), catering to professionals from various industries in hopes of promoting excellence in their respective fields. “The IAA team was caught off-guard by the works submitted for the second season of 2022’s MUSE Awards. These entries were truly astounding, and they certainly bring the level of competition up a notch,” Thomas Brandt, spokesperson of IAA, noted. “It’s amazing as always to witness great works lined up in the competition. The team is absolutely in awe of the level of creativity and ingenuity that is in the industry.”

IAA ensures impartiality and strict assessment criteria by setting up a jury made up of industry professionals who exhibit high standards of excellence. In turn, the jury would select a new wave of excellent individuals or organizations, who would likely set new benchmarks in their fields.

SINGAPORE – A list of Season 1 winners for the 2022 MUSE Creative and Design Awards has been officially released by the International Awards Associate (IAA). Having received over 6,000 entries from all over the globe, the MUSE Creative Awards and MUSE Design Awards are two leading award programs created to honor creative and design professionals for their excellence.

For its 2022 Season 1 cycle, DB&B clinches two awards – a Platinum and a Gold, in the Interior Design category of the competition for Amazon and SAP respectively. “It is an honour for us to be recognised for our dedication to design excellence. Moving forward, we hope to continuously reflect the essence of future workspaces with innovative and sustainable design solutions,” shares Jeanette Siew, Executive Director of DB&B.

The MUSE Awards are hosted by the International Awards Associate (IAA), who aims to promote excellence in various creative and design industries by providing professionals a platform to compete against their peers.

In 2021, DB&B was honoured with a Gold award at Muse Design Awards for their forward-thinking design for Invista, Shanghai. Read more here.

This accolade marks both projects’ second design award achieved this year – a remarkable recognition of the team’s outstanding work – adopting a bold yet pragmatic approach towards building workplaces for the future. “With the rapid evolution of workplace designs, we are thankful to have been recognised at A’ Design Awards over the past four years. It is our passion to create inspiring workplaces that shape the way people work as a team, and as individuals to deliver their best work,” shares Jeanette Siew, Executive Director of DB&B.

The Silver A’ Design Award is a prestigious award given to top 5% percentile designs that has achieved an exemplary level of excellence in design. A’ Design Award and Competition aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best interior designs and greatest interior design concepts worldwide. The A’ Design Accolades are organized and awarded annually and internationally in multiple categories to reach a wide, design-oriented audience.

Read about our past winning projects here:

2020-2021 Gold Award Winner- Becton Dickinson

2019-2020 Bronze Award Winner – Shopee

2018-2019 Bronze Award Winner – Distrii

2018-2019 Bronze Award Winner – Danone, Asia Pacific

Considered an industry seal of excellence, the DEA 2021 received a total of 202 entries in two tracks: The Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) for completed built projects by industry professionals; and the Spatial Design Awards (SPADE) for completed academic projects by design students. The IDEA section received 133 IDEA entries in 22 categories, while the SPADE section received 69 entries in the 9 student categories.  

“The Design Excellence Awards 2021 has become an international brand of excellence in the world of interior design. In 2021 we have seen a tremendous growth in the quantity of submissions. IDCS received entries from China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, all of which displayed significant elevation in the quality and standards of Interior & Spatial Design,” said Mr Cameron Woo, President of IDCS. 

“Once again, we are very thankful to IDCS for this award. It has been a team effort to deliver this successful project. This award will serve to motivate and remind us to continuously support the needs of our clients through design excellence,” shares Jeanette Siew, Executive Director of DB&B Pte Ltd.  

Click here to read the full design story for Becton Dickinson. 

Read about Becton Dickinson’s Gold Award at A’Design Awards here.

Okamura Corporation has been Japan’s leading office furniture manufacturer and a benchmark for the industry. The 76-year-old Japanese brand is recognized for its high quality products that have achieved design and engineering excellence.

“In the midst of these major changes surrounding offices, I believe that by mutually exchanging and sharing the ideas and knowledge that the DB&B Group and Okamura have gained through research and development as well as actual design and interior work activities, we will be able to quickly respond to the needs of our customers and cooperate in creating valuable offices that are a step ahead of the rest of the industry, “ says a visionary Masayuki Nakamura, President and CEO of Okamura Corporation.

Over the last quarter of a century, the DB&B Group has grown and matured in their capabilities across the region – Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Thailand and Philippines. They have been recognised for their outstanding performance in the commercial interior design industry with multiple design awards over the years. In recent news, DB&B is honoured with two gold awards – ‘A’Design Gold Award Interior Space and Exhibition’ for Becton Dickinson (Singapore) and ‘MUSE Design Gold Award in Interior Space’ for Invista (Shanghai).

Billy Siew, Chairman of DB&B Holdings similarly celebrated this capital relationship, “We believe that both Okamura Corporation and DB&B would be able to forge a strong bond through our similarities in values. We look forward to creating more synergy with Okamura Corporation, in ensuring longevity of our brands for many years to come.”

We are deeply honoured to be recognised by the World’s largest and most influential design accolade, A’ International Design Award and Competition as one of the top 3% percentile designs in this competition. From bronze to gold awards, we continuously strive to grow and improve our work to create purposeful and innovative designs for the industry.

BECTON DICKINSON, BD – HYPE TRIBE

Inspired by Becton Dickinson’s “BD” consolidation exercise of key business units into one single floorplate, we knew we wanted to enable a blended community space, for the various tribes of BD to come together, unite and promote cohesions with one common language. This common language was articulated with a strong design language that formed the narrative for the different experiential journeys within the space.

Read the full design story here.

Explore Becton Dickinson’s other design awards here.