2019 Taiwan International Student Design Competition’s Promotional Campaign – Advisory Council Meeting, April 21st

Organized by Taiwan Ministry of Education and executed by Asia University, Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) held an advisory council meeting on Sunday, 21th April, 2019. Doctoral students studying in Taiwan who are also teachers in China were widely invited to join the event together to know more about the competition. The executives of TISDC hoped these teachers could bring the information of TISDC back to the schools they teach to encourage their students to participate in it actively.

TISDC is now in its twelfth year. Four categories, Product Design, Visual Design, Digital Animation, and Brand Specified, are included in the competition. This year, for the very first time, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) collaborated with TISDC and sponsored the Brand Specified Category. ITRI is responsible for providing existing industrial techniques to participants to apply these techniques into their design works and come out with products with high additional value. This way would give young designers a stage to show their creativity to the world.

This advisory council meeting provided an opportunity for the doctoral students from China and studying in Taiwan to gather together. Around 50 of them from 30 schools of China participated in the event. Teacher Zhou Lin, a doctoral student of National Taiwan Normal University, mentioned that the design research methods of China are quite different from those of Taiwan. Through this promotional event, TISDC provided a precious opportunity for design education change between Taiwan and China.

Prof. Apex Lin, project director of TISDC, indicated that through years of endeavor, the international visibility of TISDC has significantly enhanced. In 2018, TISDC received more than 20,000 entries from 895 schools and departments in 66 countries/regions. Starting from 2017, in order to implement the New Southbound Policy of Taiwan Ministry of Education, TISDC executive started to establish a real exchange platform with the New Southbound Policy countries to maintain the execution power and expandability of the competition and to encourage students from those New Southbound Policy countries to participate in the competition actively. The steady increase in the participating countries/regions shows that the competition has reached an internationally recognized level and surpassed other similar student competitions. Thus, one can say that TISDC is the most influential student competition of scale.

Once again, the executive team of TISDC would like to express their appreciation to those who participated in the advisory council meeting with their precious suggestions. Through this promotional campaign, TISDC hoped to attract more teachers and students to participate in the competition and reach the next milestone together.

Group photo taken with all the attendees and Prof. Apex Lin (bottom row, center), project director of TISDC, Prof. Jun-Hong Chen (bottom row, fourth from right), associate project director of TISDC, and Prof. Sheng-Min Hsieh (bottom row, third from right), chair professor of Asia University.

TISDC’s project director, Prof. Apex Lin, and associate project director, Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, with chair professor of Asia University, Prof. Sheng-Min Hsieh, showed the attendees the achievements of students of Department of Visual Communication Design, Asia University.

Thanks Teacher Zhou Lin, a doctoral student at National Taiwan Normal University, for giving the executive team of TISDC constructive advice.