On 26^th April, the executive team of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (2022TISDC) went to the Chihlee University of Technology to promote this year’s competition. There were about 50 people on the scene.

The theme of 2022TISDC is “One World”, which is related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations in 2015. By giving a detailed explanation of this year’s theme, last year’s award-winning works were also shared amongst the students. We hope that students can explore, actively participate in the event and think outside the box to enhance own skills.

The promotion was a huge success and thanks to all the students and teachers who participated! Special thanks to Prof. Cong for the perfect arrangement and assistance of this event.
 

Promoting 2022TISDC at Chihlee University of Technology (1)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Chihlee University of Technology (2)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Chihlee University of Technology (3)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Chihlee University of Technology (4)

On April 27^th 2022, Mr. Jerry Chang, founder of CKOY, was invited to give a lecture at National Pingtung University for the Circular Economy campus lecture II. There’re more than 88 participants joined in this event.

According to the topic of “More than Sustainable Design 101” for the lecture, Mr. Jerry Chang not only shared about the importance and meaning of circular economy, but also encouraged audience to put the concept of circular economy into limited condition, and take the user’s experience as standard. All students and teachers have learned a lot. Many thanks to Mr. Chang’s sharing.

TISDC would like to thank National Pingtung University for the strong support and assistance for making this event a successful conclusion. Due to the great support from TPCA foundation, TISDC had a chance to hold the lecture in the theme of circular economy and to provide different aspects of thoughts and observations in the field of design. Looking forward to see more great works to come this year TISDC.

Caption: Lecture at National Pingtung University (1)

Caption: Lecture at National Pingtung University (2)

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Campus Lecture: Circular Economy I was held online on April 27th, 2022. Game designer Ruei Feng Huang of the Yamm Stream Inc. will give an online lecture to the teachers and students of National Taiwan University of Arts with the theme of “Sustainable Art”, and very happy that nearly 30 viewers participated.

Director Huang brought sustainable issues from his personal creative experience. In addition to expounding his own views on environmental conservation, he also shared many cases of cooperation with different types, and guided the audience to rethink the issue of “circular economy”. The teachers and students in the field have benefited a lot, thank Director Huang for sharing.

TISDC would like to thank to teachers Wei-Chung Chang and Chun-I Lee from the Department of Meltimedia and Animation Arts of National Taiwan University of Arts for the strong support and assistance for making this event a successful conclusion. Due to the great support from TPCA foundation, TISDC had the chance to hold the lecture in the theme of circular economy and to provide different aspects of thoughts and observations in the field of design.

Caption:Lecture at National Taiwan University of Arts (1)

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The second station of the Taiwan International Students Design Competition (TISDC) exhibition tour is landed in Induk University in Korea from 12^th to 29^th of April 2022. Aside from a three-week exhibition held in the Ahjung Museum of Art in the university, the TISDC will also be promoted in College of Design classes. It’s hoped that the students from Induk University will participate in the competition in near future.

The TISDC successfully held this event together with Korea Ensemble of Contemporary Design (KECD), through the assistance of President of KECD, Yoo Yoonho and Vice President, Chia Hua Jackie Lee. In addition, with the help from KECD experts such as Chief Director of Exhibition Department, Kang Min Ji, Ex-president, Chang Ho Chirl, Vice President, Cho Woong Jae, Marketing Director, Joseph Park, and Secretary-general, Jay Choi, the TISDC is able to bring winning works of students from all around the globe to Korea and launch the 2021 Exhibition Tour in the Ahjung Museum of Art. The Induk University is not only famed for its College of Design but is also an outstanding university recognized by numerous companies. It’s hoped that through the exhibition as well as promotion in Korea, the TISDC would have a platform to communicate and to approach local students and teachers. We are glad that this exhibition allows Korean teachers and students to get to know the TISDC and that design students are provided with more inspirations and learning opportunities through engaging interactions with outstanding design essences offered by students from around the world.

We want to thank KECD for their assistance in helping us to organize such a great event. We hope that this international exhibition would receive positive feedbacks from teachers and students. We also hope that universities and colleges in Korea will be able to stay tuned for the competition updates and that students will bring in their works to participate in the competition.

Caption : 2022TISDC’s exhibition at Induk University<Hublife Jakarta>

Caption : 2022TISDC’s campus promotional campaign at Induk University

On May 3rd, the project manager of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), led the campus promotional campaign of TISDC at Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology with the project manager of the Sprout Project of Design-International Design Competition (IDC).

During the promotion process, TISDC not only gave a detailed description of the competition theme “One World” of this year’s design competition, but also shared many wonderful winning works, so as to encourage the students of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology to actively participate in international design competitions, cultivate diverse design thinking, and hope that students can seize the opportunity to participate in various competitions while studying in university, and try to open up new paths with diverse design thinking and accumulation of design ability.

Caption: Lecture at Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology (1)

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On May 5th, 2022, the project manager of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), Ms. Otta Zhang hold an online promotional campaign together with the project manager of the Sprout Project of Design-International Design Competition (IDC) to Shu-Te University. Around 120 teachers and students of the Department of Animation and Game Design participated in the event. The project manager of the design competition introduced the competition method in detail to the teachers and students, and shared the achievements of the Taiwan International Student Creative Design Competition over the years.

The theme of 2022TISDC is“One World”, which extends from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals) proposed and expected to be achieved by the United Nations. TISDC encouraged students to discover, discuss and solve global sustainable development issues through design. It is very grateful to the Department of Animation and Game Design of Shu-Te University for their support and encouragement to Taiwan’s design education. Hope that this year’s design competition will have more outstanding works from Shu-De University of Science and Technology!

Finally, Special thanks to the teachers of Shu-Te University for their full support and assistance in arranging the promotion activities smoothly and successfully!

Caption: Lecture at Shu-Te University (1)

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On May 6th, the promotional activities of the 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition Project Manager and Professor Fang Xiaowei, the associate director, were very happy to be able to introduce the competition to the teachers and students of the Chiao Tai High School online. The theme of 2022TISDC is “One World”, encouraging students to think about the universal values – Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations, hoping that through such themes and directions, students will be able to examine the existing and break through the framework, and looks forward to seeing students shine on the world stage.

There were about 100 students participating in this activity. In addition to promote the competition and the various events that will happen this year, TISDC also shared many wonderful winning works and encouraged students to participate in various competitions so to seize the opportunity to participate in the competition at the university stage, and try to open up a new path with rich and diverse design thinking and accumulate design strength. The competition is very much looking forward to the works of the students from everyone can get good grades and win awards.

Caption: Online Lecture at Chiao Tai High School of Commerce (1)
 

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Caption: Online Lecture at Chiao Tai High School of Commerce (7)

Caption: Online Lecture at Chiao Tai High School of Commerce (5)

TISDC gave a promotion talk to Taipei Municipal Shilin High School of Commerce to promote this year’s competition online. The theme of 2022TISDC theme is “One World”. In this era of war and pandemic, TISDC hopes to see young designers could develop their design concepts from the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) which were proposed by the United Nations in 2015, to propose more meaningful designs and provide solution to today’s world.

Around 100 people attended the promotional campaign. Students are all concentrated and give great feedbacks.

Thank you to Director Yu,Chian Chen for the support and assistance. TISDC looks forward to seeing students from Taipei Municipal Shilin High School of Commerce on the Award Ceremony this year.

Caption: Online Lecture at Taipei Municipal Shilin High School of Commerce (1)

Caption: Online Lecture at Taipei Municipal Shilin High School of Commerce (2)

Caption: Online Lecture at Taipei Municipal Shilin High School of Commerce (3)

TISDC sends our deepest condolences to director Goo-Shun Wang and his family.

Director Goo-Shun served as a Chief Animator for the ad production service-Psyop and also the Senior Animator at Blue Sky Studios. We thank Director Goo-Shun Wang as a part of the jury in digital animation category in 2018. During the two selection days, it left a wonderful memories. We TISDC was surprised and saddened to hear about Director Wang’s passing. With warm hearts and prayers, we hope director Goo-Shun will reunite with his beloved animation in heaven.

Caption : Direcor Goo-Shun Wang participated in 2018TISDC’s selection

On May 12th, the online promotional activities of the 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition shared this year’s competition information with the teachers and students of National Taichung University of Science and Technology.

The theme of 2022TISDC is “One World”, which encouraging students to make creative designs based on the theme of this year’s competition. We hope students could use design to pursue the universal values of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which was proposed by the United Nations. TISDC hopes that students from across the globe can promote the universal value of sustainability and unity through diverse and inspiring concept of design.

Finally, we would like to thank the teachers and students of National Taichung University of Science and Technology for their participation. Especially thanks to all the professors from the Department of Commercial Design for their strong support and assistance, making this publicity event a success!

Caption: Lecture at National Taichung University of Science and Technology (1)

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Special thanks to Designer Christian Baun for helping TISDC arrange the exhibition and also give big support. The roving exhibition of 2021TISDC’s winning works at the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology from Mid-May to the end of June.  Mr. Christian also promoted TISDC in several schools including Copenhagen School of Design and Technology and Zealand University. TISDC hopes this international campaign could create more opportunities for design exchanges and let students in Denmark-Copenhagen accumulate more energy in design and learn from other international students’ excellent works. Many thanks also goes to the professors and teachers in Denmark for helping us spread the information of the roving exhibition, which resulted in many enthusiastic visitors to the exhibition. Many thanks to Mr. Christian Baun again!

Caption: TISDC’s exhibition and promotional campaign at Copenhagen School of Design and Technology

On 13^th May 2022, the project manager of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), Ms. Mandy Chuang, led the online campus promotional campaign of TISDC at National Keelung Commercial & Industrial Vocational Senior High School with the project manager of Sprout Project of International Design Competition (IDC). Around 70 teachers and students participated in the campaign online. It’s our great pleasure to have exchange with students of Advertising Design and share the information of this year’s competition with them.

Targeting on the theme of this year’s competition, “One World,” Project manager not only pointed out some detailed information about the competition but also shared some of the winning students’ experiences of participating in this competition. Special emphasis was also put on this year’s Brand Specified Special Prize, sponsored by TPCA Environment Foundation. We also gave our great appreciation to Director Min-Jie Hong, Professor Chia-Yin Yu, Teacher Jhen-Ning Li and Teacher Bo-Hong Zhou of National Keelung Commercial & Industrial Vocational Senior High School for helping us arrange this promotional campaign and lending her support to TISDC.

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at National Keelung Commercial & Industrial Vocational Senior High School Online

Online Circular Economy campus lecture IV came to National Taiwan University of Science and Technology on May 16th, 2022 (Monday). Architect Mr. Ying-Chao Kuo from Bio architecture Formosana was invited to give an online lecture to the students and teachers of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. There’re more than 85 participants joined in this event.

Mr. Kuo sharing about the theme of “Biological intelligence: The Origin of Architectural Creativity”. He also talked about the biological intelligence that inspires the four orientations of “origin”, “interface”, “form”, and “loop”. It contains all levels and is closely related to each other.

He also explained different examples of recycling of materials and building structures, as well as environmental recycling. In his personal thinking, he believes that although artificial intelligence is important in the current generation AI, BI is more in line with the needs of the modern generation for the sustainable development and architecture of the earth.

TISDC would like to thank National Taiwan University of Science and Technology for the strong support and assistance for making this event a successful conclusion. Due to the great support from TPCA foundation, TISDC had a chance to hold the lecture in the theme of circular economy and to provide different aspects of thoughts and observations in the field of design. Looking forward to see more great works from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology to come this year TISDC.

Caption: Lecture at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (1)

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Caption: Lecture at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (4)

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Caption: Lecture at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (7)

Caption: Lecture at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (8)

Circular Economy campus lecture III came to Ling Tung University on May 12, 2022 (Thursday). The winner of the visual design category of the 2018 Taiwan International Student Design Competition, designer Xiang-Xin Wan brought a brilliant speech to the teachers and students of Ling Tung University. We’re happy to see that there’re 50 teachers and students participate on site and 53 students participate online.

With the theme of “Seeing Environmental Sustainability from Design”, designer Xiang-Xin Wan introduced the work “Under 1.0” that won the gold prize in TISDC. She explained how to connect design thinking with the concept of sustainability. In addition, she watched various animal channels when she was a child. She liked animals and paintings so much, and she often got design inspiration from all kinds of animals. “Under 1.0” is based on the commonly visible vision checklist. The different vision is the symbol of different animal. The smaller one and the one cannot be easily seen showed the similar situation of each endangered animal species. “Under 1.0” is also invited to participate in the permanent exhibition “府－Power To The People” at the Presidential Office and more visitors can understand Taiwan’s natural ecology and pay attention to environmental protection issues through the exhibition.

Many Thanks to designer Xiang-Xin Wan for the lecture sharing. We believe that the students have learned a lot from the speech and have a deeper consideration for environmental sustainability and creative design. Circular Economy campus lecture was hold successfully. Special thanks to Professor An-Huel Cin, Professor Jian-Wun Chen and Professor Chan-Heng Chen for their support and assistance! TISDC believed that there will be more wonderful works from Ling Tung University!

Caption: Lecture at Ling Tung University (1)

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The promotion train of the TISDC is now coming to Japan! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, TISDC has specially invited Yosuke Okamoto, the chairman of Central Nagoya Creators Association, as the promotional representative in Japan. The school participating in this international publicity is Aichi Design College, and a campus publicity event will be held on May 11th, 2022, with a total of 22 teachers and students participating.

Special thanks to Chairman Yosuke Okamoto for his assistance in making this event a success. We hope that the students from Japan can to pay attention to the news of TISDC and hope to see many excellent works from Japan.

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at Aichi Design College (1)

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at Aichi Design College (2)

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at Aichi Design College (3)

TISDC held the Online Campus Lecture to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University to promote this year’s competition online, alongside with the Project Manager of International Design Competition (IDC).

This is the fifth and sixth Campus Lecture of Circular Economy. We are really honored to invite Mr. Yan Ting Chen, professor of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and Mr. Andy Chung, CEO of Oh! Design Studio.

Designer Yan Ting Chen stated that as a designer, it is extremely important to keep on creating. He also recommend students to understand more about SDGs and include it into their design. Especially when illness, environment and natural disaster are all a part of our daily life. He also analyze students’ winning works and how to create an intriguing design so to stand out among the international design competitions.

Designer Andy Chung not only shared the methods of circular design but also mentioned some examples in daily life for us to better understand the concept. He also mentioned some local circular design, includes W glass project, FYNE and TPCreative. He mentioned that he is also trying to practice the idea of circular design and hoping students could carry it out by their personal effort through his sharing.

There were around 90 people attended this campaign online. Many thanks to Graduate Institute of Architecture, Cross-Disciplinary Program and Institute of Applied Arts for their support!

Caption: Online Lecture at Taipei Municipal Shilin High School of Commerce (1)

Caption: Online Lecture at Taipei Municipal Shilin High School of Commerce (2)

Caption: Online Lecture at Taipei Municipal Shilin High School of Commerce (3)

The promotional activities of the 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition have been launched in all design-related colleges and universities across Taiwan. The theme of this year’s design competition is “One World”!

The project manager of TISDC was appreciated to be invited to promote this year’s competition at Song Shan Hign School of Commerce and Home Economics on 19^th May. Around 65 teachers and students joined the session together. This activity not only introduced the competition methods to the participating teachers and students in detail and introduces the achievements of the Taiwan International Student Design Competition over the years, but also shared last year’s award-winning works, hoping to encourage students to participate actively, seize the opportunity, and actively strive for high prizes.

This competition encourages everyone to solve global sustainable development issues and fulfill their civic responsibilities through design. We hope that students can observe people and things in life from different angles and pay more attention to social and environmental issues, and incorporate the concept of “One World” in their own design works.

Finally, we would like to thank again to all the teachers from Song Shan Hign School of Commerce and Home Economics for the perfect arrangement and assistance of this event.

Promoting 2022TISDC at Song Shan Hign School of Commerce and Home Economics (1)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Song Shan Hign School of Commerce and Home Economics (2)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Song Shan Hign School of Commerce and Home Economics (3)

We are really happy to be able to participate the Circular Economy Lecture with students and teachers from Chaoyang University of Technology. It is our honor to invite Mr. Pili Wu from Pili-Wu Design to be the lecturer of the 7^th Circular Economy Lecture.

Mr. Pili Wu started with the context of sustainability and hope that students could think broader regarding the relationship between them and the world. Take example of “The National Palace Museum”, designer lead students to rethink the evolution of art and design. Designer suggest students to change their perspective and take your professors as your client, no matter what their opinion is, it is still a meaningful learning process. Designer also mentioned “Re-innovate” as his second theme, suggests students to simplify or innovate “Classic and Traditional”, so to catch up with the trends of the era. Designer also remind students to always have a sustainability mindset as their starting point. Lastly, TISDC hope students could create more work/ project with context and to have the mindset of circular economy when designing a product or visual.

There were around 60 people attended this campaign online. Many thanks to Chaoyang University of Technology!

Caption: Online Lecture at Chaoyang University of Technology (1)

Caption: Online Lecture at Chaoyang University of Technology (2)

Caption: Online Lecture at Chaoyang University of Technology (3)

Caption: Online Lecture at Chaoyang University of Technology (4)

The promotional activities of the 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition have been continued!

On 24th May, Tuesday, the project manager of TISDC was appreciated to be invited to promote this year’s competition to National Taichung University of Education, around 35 teachers and students joined the session together.
The theme of 2022TISDC is “One World”, which is related to the Sustainable Development Goals (the SDGs) proposed by the United Nations in 2015. This activity not only encouraged students pay attention to the problems we are facing when trying to make the world more suitable and sustainable to live and reach the 17 goals in the SDGs by 2030, we also hope that students could make the best use of design to change the world for better. It’s a gold opportunity that design students shouldn’t miss.

Finally, we would like to thank again to all the teachers from National Taichung University of Education for the perfect arrangement and assistance of this event.
 

Promoting 2022TISDC at National Taichung University of Education (1)

Promoting 2022TISDC at National Taichung University of Education (2)

Promoting 2022TISDC at National Taichung University of Education (3)

Promoting 2022TISDC at National Taichung University of Education (4)

On May 25th, 2022, the project manager of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) conducted the campus promotion activities through online methods to introduce the competition to the students of the Department of Industrial Design of Tunghai University. The theme of this year’s TISDC is “One World”. TISDC encouraged to students design and create together with the United Nations in 2015 to achieve 17 universal values-sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2030. TISDC hoped that through such themes and the direction allows students to discover, review, and think about the relationship between themselves and social responsibility, so as to fulfill their responsibilities as a global citizen.

Today, 50 students from Tunghai University participated enthusiastically in this online campaign. In addition to promote the competition information and various design activities this year, the project manager also shared many wonderful winning works. TISDC feels very grateful to the Department of Industrial Design of Tunghai University for its contribution to Taiwan’s design education. We hope that will have more outstanding works from Tunghai University of Science and Technology in this year’s design competition!

Finally, Special thanks to the teachers of Tunghai University for their full support and assistance in arranging the promotion activities smoothly and successfully!

Promoting 2022TISDC at Tunghai University (1)

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Promoting 2022TISDC at Tunghai University (3)

May 25th, 2022, held at School of Design of Ming Chuan University, the 2022TISDC- Campus Lecture: Circular Economy VIII attracted more than 110 people to participate online. It’s honored to invite Director Ms. Ama Shen, the founder of 印花樂(inBlooom) for giving us a lecture by the topic of “Good to Ourselves & Good to the World – How to Realize the Brand Mind of Creative and Conscious Lifestyle with inBlooom’s”.

Director Ama shared about the brand mind of inBlooom and creation of conscious lifestyle, and also talk the concept of social values and issues by thinking of the design results. She created the printed fabric by using the image of unique scenery of Taiwan, such as longitudinal valley, rice and begonia glass. She also told that if you want to create a touching design work, you should not sit still in front of your computer. Ms. Ama encouraged students to experience the real life to get the inspiration. inBlooom also worked together with NGO to train the resident of Xiaolin village to overcome the difficulty in printed fabric production and create a good aspect. She hoped that students do not need to afraid any social issue. The concept of common good is not large or high. It is the best way to put yourself into practice from usual life.

TISDC would like to thank to Dean Chi-Tung Hung, all the professors and the secretary from the School of Design of Ming Chuan University for making this event a successful conclusion. Due to the great support from TPCA foundation, TISDC had the chance to hold the lecture in the theme of circular economy and to provide different aspects of thoughts and observations in the field of design. TISDC encouraged students from Ming Chuan University to participate in 2022TISDC and also hoped to see the excellent works from Ming Chuan University.

Online Campus Lecture: Circular Economy VIII at Ming Chuan University