In the afternoon of December 9th, 2017, the charity party as well as design-thinking and value sharing forum were held by C Foundation in Hangzhou, China. Frank Li, AXENT Group’s Chief Product Strategy Officer, attended the party. At the party, the sponsor announced that AXENT Group and C Foundation had reached a public welfare strategic partnership, and AXENT Group will contribute one million yuan to C Foundation every year, to help young designers realize their dreams.
Actually, on the first day of 2017 Guangzhou Design Week, Daniel Grob, CEO of AXENT Group, and several founders of C Foundation had already revealed the exciting news at the AXENT celebration party for the launch of the world’s first smart bathroom cabinet, which is also 40 UNDER 40 China Design Award Ceremony for outstanding young designers.
Frank said that 10 founders of C Foundation, as well as 3 founders who joined later, had made a great public welfare undertaking. They aimed to nothing but to help all young designers grow better, so that they could go global, dialogue with the best designers in the world equally, and co-create a beautiful world.
Steve Leung, executive director of C Foundation 2017 said, “First of all, I would like to thank Frank and Daniel. I think having support from such international enterprise is a good example. I hope that in the future, there will be a lot of enterprises in the design community supporting C Foundation like AXENT Group. In the meanwhile, I hope all designers, no matter how young you are, can join our big family and do something for the design community all together.”
About C Foundation
C Foundation was registered as a non-governmental, non-profit and charitable foundation in Shenzhen in 2014. Established by interior designers from Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan such as TK Chu, Sherman Lin, Patrick Leung, Steve Leung, Jianguo Liang, Yaoguang Chen, Frank Jiang, Kun Dai, Troy Sun and Bin Ju, C Foundation is the first self-supporting charity foundation initiated and established by designers in Greater China. It consists of education, development and exchange committee, aims to foster the design education and professional development in China and promote traditional Chinese design and art culture among design community.