The HKDA Awards has been one of the most established cross-disciplinary design competitions in the Asia-Pacific region organised by HKDA since 1975. To embrace the development of the design industry and the best designs worldwide, HKDA Awards was revamped to become HKDA Global Design Awards (HKDA GDA) in 2011 and welcome entries from all over the world. It is not simply a design competition to honour global design excellence, but also acts as an engine to energise a series of events as a yearlong campaign that aims to promote Hong Kong designs internationally and to enhance Hong Kong as one of the major creative hubs in Asia-Pacific.

The theme of the HKDA Awards 07 is Design. No Junk Food.' It is a statement on the value of design, and a trumpet call to all professional designers throughout Asia Pacific - bring forth your works of excellence to this longest-standing platform of acclaiming exceptional design solutions in the region.