2025 Taiwan International Students Design Competition．Winners Announced

The official list of the 2025 TISDC winners has been announced. Please refer to the list below for details.
▶ 2025TISDC Official Winner List (click to view or download ✔)

We proudly announce the winners of the 2025 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC)—the world’s largest international student design competition, hosted by the Ministry of Education. This year’s winners represent an impressive diversity of backgrounds and ideas, with outstanding works from across the globe earning recognition from an international panel of judges. Among them, students from Taiwan achieved remarkable success, receiving prestigious honors, including the Grand Prix, as well as Gold Prizes in the Visual Design and Fashion Design categories.

2025 TISDC embraces the theme “Diversity”, echoing the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The competition encourages emerging designers to reflect on the diverse dimensions of the world and everyday life, and to channel the power of design to create a more inclusive, creative, and sustainable future.

This year’s competition expanded its scope with two new categories—Architecture & Landscape Design and Fashion Design—alongside the long-established categories of Product Design, Visual Design, and Digital Animation. The addition of these new fields highlights TISDC’s commitment to fostering creative diversity and cross-disciplinary innovation. This year, TISDC received a total of 16,329 submissions from 1,029 schools across 73 countries and regions, marking a 30% increase in international entries.

In 2025, a total of 138 professional judges from across the globe participated in the TISDC evaluation process. During the preliminary round, 88 experts from 30 countries served as jurors in five categories — Product Design, Visual Design, Digital Animation, Architecture and Landscape Design, and Fashion Design — selecting 499 exceptional entries to advance to the final round. During the final evaluation, a distinguished panel of 50 judges from 15 countries — comprising 7 jurors for each of the five categories and 15 jurors for the Environmental Sustainability Award — selected 76 exceptional entries as the winners of this year’s competition. With a finalist rate of just 3.2% and an overall winning rate of 0.5%, the competition remains fiercely competitive, underscoring the excellence and rarity of the awarded works.

The TISDC comprises awards, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, which include one Grand Prix of the competition, and one Gold, Silver, and Bronze Prize, along with six Honorable Mentions in each of the five competition categories. Additionally, 21 International Design Association Special Prizes were sponsored by the iSee Taiwan Foundation, while the TPCA Environment Foundation supported 3 Environmental Sustainability Awards and 6 Regional Special Awards. Altogether, 76 prizes were awarded, with a total prize pool nearing NTD 4 million.

Among the winners, the Grand Prix is awarded to the Digital Animation Category’s Essence by WAN-YU HONG from the Taipei National University of the Arts. This work stood out for its conceptual depth and emotional resonance. The Gold Prize winners in the five categories are as follows: ZHONG-WEI LIN from the Royal College of Art (UK), won the Product Design Category with his work Reefine; YOU-ZHEN LIN, WAN-CHUN LIU, YONG-QI LAI, YI-CHING HO, HUI-CHIEH LAI, and RUO-XUAN CHEN from Ling Tung University received the Gold Prize in the Visual Design Category for their collaborative work CICADA’S TUNE; JAMES DOHERTY from the University for the Creative Arts (UK) was honored with the Gold Prize in the Digital Animation Category for his work Before Lights Out; MARINA KOIZUMI from Waseda University (Japan) received the Gold Prize in the Architecture and Landscape Design Category for her work Kabukicho Complex – A Temporary Architecture for the Excluded: Toward an Inclusive Urban Future; and HUI-PING ZHUANG from Ling Tung University won the Gold Prize in the Fashion Design Category for her work Nature’s Floating Sanctuary.

The Award Ceremony will be held on December 9 (Tuesday) at the A2 International Conference Hall, NCCU Center for Public and Business Administration Education (CPBAE) (No. 187, Jinhua Street, Da’an District, Taipei City). From December 9 to 14, the Awarded Works Exhibition will take place at the NTUST Art Gallery (No. 43, Sec. 4, Keelung Road, Da’an District, Taipei), open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Note: The morning of December 9 is reserved for the Awarded Students Exchange and will not be open to the public; public admission begins at 1:00 p.m. on that day.)

Congratulations to all the winning students who stood out among numerous outstanding entries! 🎉👏
Your diverse creative energy made this year’s competition even more inspiring and remarkable!

The TISDC Winners’ Exhibition will be held from December 9 (TUE) to December 14 (SUN) at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology – NTUST Art Gallery (Address: No. 43, Sec. 4, Keelung Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei).
The exhibition will be open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(▲ Please Note: The morning of December 9 is reserved for the Awarded Students Exchange and will not be open to the public; public admission begins at 1:00 p.m. on that day.)

Stay tuned to the TISDC official website and social media channels for the latest updates!