Online registration and work submissions of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (2022TISDC), the largest student design competition in the world, starts today!!!

Updated deadline for submission: June 15, 2022 (23:59) (Taipei time: GMT+8:00)

Categories: Product Design, Visual Design and Digital Animation

2022TISDC is organized and promoted by the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education (Taiwan), sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation and Sayling Wen Cultural and Educational Foundation, and executed by the Department of Visual Communication Design, Asia University. The theme of this year’s competition is “One World,” which echoes with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDG was proposed by the United Nations in 2015 and is set be achieved by the year 2030. It is hoped that students from across the globe can promote the universal value of sustainability and unity through diverse and inspiring concept of design.  

The total prize money of 2022TISDC is up to NT$4,500,000 (approx. US$150,000). No registration fee is required to participate in the competition. This year, 21 international design associations endorse special prizes and the prizes are sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation and Sayling Wen Cultural and Educational Foundation. In addition, there’re three environmental sustainability award sponsored by TPCA Environment Foundation. The jury panel will select two works “with significance for circular economy” among the shortlisted entries in the Product Design category and Visual Design category to win this award. 2022TISDC looks forward to young student designers’ active participation in this year’s competition.

│ Awards│

Product Design, Visual Design, and Digital Animation Categories

Grand Prix (1 winner): NT$400,000 (approx. US$14,000), an awarding cup and a certificate

Gold Prize (1 winner for each category): NT$250,000 (approx. US$8,900), an awarding cup and a certificate

Silver Prize (1 winner for each category): NT$150,000 (approx. US$5,300), an awarding cup and a certificate

Bronze Prize (3 winners for each category): NT$60,000 (approx. US$2,100), an awarding cup and a certificate

Honorable Mention (several winners for each category): NT$10,000 (approx. US$350) and a certificate

International Design Association Special Prize (21 winners for this prize) 

(Sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation & Sayling Wen Cultural and Educational Foundation)

NT$100,000 (approx. US$3,500), an awarding cup and a certificate

Brand Specified Special Prize: Environmental Sustainability Award (3 winner for this prize)

(Sponsored by TPCA Environment Foundation)

NT$100,000 (approx. US$3,500), an awarding cup and a certificate

2022TISDC looking forward to your participation!

Contact

2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition Executive

TEL: +886-4-2331-0066

E-mail: tisdc.tw@gmail.com

Website: https://www.tisdc.org/en

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The sixth International Design Masters Lecture Series in 2022 was held online and streamed live on TISDC’s official YouTube channel, allowing design lovers to join us whichever way! Topics of the lectures starting out with the 17 goals of the SDGs along with the continuation of this year’s theme-One World, we’ve invited three professional designers as our lecturers, including Mr. Ben Schwarz from Germany, Professor Youl Cho from Korea, and Mr. Chris Armsden from United Kingdom. The International Design Masters Lecture Series started with project director Mr. Lin’s welcome speech followed by the address from Mr. Liu, the director of National Library of Public Information.

First of all, Mr. Ben Schwarz, co-founder and design director at Manta Sleep, shared his experience by the topic of “Opportunities for Product Designers in a Fully Connected World“. By chance, he came to Taiwan and started his own business. The director mentioned that the current generation is exciting for product design, especially for designers. There are many new challenges and problems facing the world, including the epidemic, war and global warming etc.; However, there are also some new concepts in this generation, with new opportunities. Through remote work and the metaverse, director Ben tells us what other possibilities are there for young designers outside the traditional path and how to find new design ideas.

Lecture I : Opportunities for Product Designers in a Fully Connected World.

Secondly, Professor Youl Cho, currently a visiting Professor at National Taiwan University of Arts with the theme of “University Design Education: Using the Principle of Anamorphosis” to share the visual art of Anamorphosis beyond the plane, not only using specular reflection, but also using perception as an example.  He introduced many visual or scientific designs of the anamorphic principle, including many of Professor Zhao’s large-scale and well-known works: the audience holding placards at the opening venue of the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Lecture ll: College Design Education: Using the Principle of Anamorphosis

Last but not least, founder of Rising Star Creative, Mr. Chris Armsden, shared his lecture: “Connecting One World through Animation.” The designer proposed that animation is to present life in a different way, carefully observe every little detail of life, and through animations, it can attract the audience’s attention, generate connection and eventually the audience will pay attention to the issue. However, it is not enough by just knowing the issue, we should think deeper on how to empathize with the issue and make a change. In Chris’s speech, we may be able to find some answers and resonance.

Lecture lll: Connecting One World through Animation

Special thanks to the three wonderful designers and their lectures. We would also like to thank Associate Project Director Mr. Lee for his closing speech. The second International Design Masters Lectures Series has come to a perfect ending. Once again, we would like to thank all the participants for making our event a huge success!

Caption : Group photo with all our guests.

Caption : Q&A session of the Lecture Series

Caption : Group photo with the executive team

Organized by the Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education (Taiwan), executed by the Department of Visual Communication Design of Asia University, and sponsored by the iSee Taiwan Foundation, Sayling Wen Cultural and Educational Foundation, and TPCA Environment Foundation (Special Award Sponsor), 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition held the 6th New Asia Design Workshop online on the 28th and 29th of May, 2022. Three prestigious international designers including Mr. Ben Schwarz from Germany, Mr. Youl Cho from South Korea, and Mr. Chris Armsden from the UK were invited to be the instructors of the workshop.

This year’s workshop not only takes the theme of 2022TISDC: “One World”, but also extends the 17 SDGs sustainable development goals. The three international designers used their design experiences to lead the students create and imagine design works to connect with the goal of sustainable development. They not only provided suggestions and the concepts in the field of professional design, but also guided the students to deal with difficulties and overcome with bottlenecks. Lecturers encouraged all the students to change the logic of thinking, so that the design creativity can be improved and growth!

This year, due to the coronavirus outbreak is continuing to grow, the TISDC team conducted the workshop through online for the health of the students and lecturers, so that more students who want to participate in the workshop have the opportunity to participate, and it has overcome the need for students to traffic problems in previous years. It not only promotes international exchanges, but also allows many design-loving students to interact with international designers, and it also follows the trend of technology and uses online platforms and cooperation models.

In order to break language barriers, each lecturer was accompanied by an interpreter so that students could understand what the lecturers wanted to express, thus being more involved in the workshop. An estimate of 72 students from 35 different universities and departments in Taiwan participated in the workshop.

In the two-day workshop, the three lecturers shared their own experiences and taught new design thinking, which caused the students with endless inspiration. The lecturers also gave feedback on the excellent reports of the students’ presentation and it also proving the extraordinary strength of Taiwanese students. The event is only two days in the design career of the students, and we believe that all of the students will have a great future. Although the workshop only lasted for two days, many students gave us the feedback that they benefited lot by the workshop. Students are grateful for the opportunity that provided by TISDC and also hope to participate in the workshop again next year.

Group photo of the Opening Ceremony

The online class of Product Design Category

The online class of Product Design Category

The online class of Visual Design Category

The online class of Visual Design Category

The online class of Digital Animation Category

The online class of Digital Animation Category

Group photo of the Final Presentation

Group photo of the Final Presentation

On June 15th, the project manager of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), led the campus promotional campaign of TISDC at National Chushan Senior High School 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, to encourage the students of National Chushan Senior High School 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 study, and try to open up new paths with diverse design thinking and accumulation of design ability.

Caption: Lecture at National Chushan Senior High School (1)

Caption: Lecture at National Chushan Senior High School (2)

Caption: Lecture at National Chushan Senior High School (3)

Caption: Lecture at National Chushan Senior High School (4)

TISDC went to Fu-Hsin Trade & Arts School today to promote this year’s competition. Alongside with the Project Manager of International Design Competition (IDC), TISDC hopes to encourage students in participating this year’s competition throughout different school promotions.

2022TISDC theme is “One World”, TISDC hopes that young designers can develop their design concepts from the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) which were proposed by the United Nations in 2015. Also, TISDC hopes that their designs can improve daily lives as well as make the world a better place.

Around 100 people attended the promotional campaign. The project manager of TISDC hope to see students to participate actively and accumulate design competition experiences since high school as it will be a great benefit for students. The project manager of TISDC also told students that there will be a participation certificate to download this year and it could be a beneficial certificate when applying for schools. Thanks to Fu-Hsin Trade & Arts School Vice Principal Chen Xiao Zong and Teacher Huang Yi Sheng for their support and assistance. Also, thank you to all the students who participated today. TISDC looks forward to seeing students shine by participating in competitions.

Caption: Promotion Talk at Fu-Hsin Trade & Arts School (1)

Caption: Promotion Talk at Fu-Hsin Trade & Arts School (2)

Caption: Promotion Talk at Fu-Hsin Trade & Arts School (3)

The International Design Masters Lecture Series was held online on Saturday, July 9^th, 2022. Themed on sustainable development goals (SDGs), the event was graced by the lectures of three professional designers: designer Irfan Kachwalla from India, designer Yi-Yu Shen and designer Chen Corn from Taiwan. The event started with opening remarks by Professor Hui-Ping, Lu, the associate project director of TISDC and the Chairperson, followed by a speech by Simon Chen, the president of TPCA Environment Foundation, which is the sponsor of the Environmental Sustainability Award in this year’s Taiwan International Student Design Competition.

Caption : Opening remarks by Simon Chen, the president of TPCA Environment Foundation

Caption : Presenting certificate of appreciation to three lecturers

The first lecturer of the event was the senior product designer of Logitech, Mr. Irfan Kachwalla from India. The topic was “Design for Sustainability at Logitech”. During his speech, Irfan shared his design experiences in JBL and Steelcase and problems in design. He mostly talked about the designs and products in sustainability at Logitech and guided audience to different design mindsets by thinking “WHAT”, “WHY” and “HOW”. He talked about the importance of DFS (Design for Sustainability) in product design. Including reduce the negative impacts the solution might have on the environment in the periods of beginning, during the usage and end of product life. To reduce the plastic by recycled material to give a second life to use plastics and reduce the CO2 footprint by using low carbon aluminum. Products became lighter and more convenient and also meet the requirements for people.

Caption : Lecture I – “Design for Sustainability at Logitech”

After that, we welcomed the designer Yi-Yu Shen, the co-founder and creative director of InBloom with her speech “Good for us, good for the earth”. Director Shen talked about the brand concept of InBloom and also shared 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. She  told that if you want to create a touching design work, you should have more experiences in 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 encouraged people to find out the social needs. The concept of common good is not large or high, but it is the best way to put yourself into practice from usual life.

Caption : Lecture II – “Good for us, good for the earth”

Last but not least, Mr. Corn Chen, the director of MUTEAN WORKSHOP CO., LTD. enlightened us with the topic “Stories about the local environment”. He talked about the local features, ecological environment and natural resources of Kenting, Tao-mi village Hualien, Jibei Islet and Hu-Ben village by picture book. Also, he shared the animation story creation of “Butterfly Hunter” and the concept of AR in picture book by using interesting technique to bring the issue of habitat destruction and Taiwan’s ecology. It’s full of educational value. Director Corn Chen attempted to design different cartoon animation. He hoped that his animation could inspire children and let them know the importance of environment. In the end of the speech, director talked about the project of Taichung world flora exposition. It took a lot of imagination to come up with such an ingenious animation in character setting and the moral of story.

Caption : Lecture III – “Stories about the local environment”

The International Design Masters Lecture Series successfully came to an end after the inspiring lectures of these design masters. Thank you to all the participants for their attendance. We would also like to extend our appreciation to the distinguished guests, teachers and students. Their efforts and participation were what made this event possible.

Caption : Q&A

One World. One Dream!

Submit Now and Win the High Prizes.

Only 5 days away from the submission deadline of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition!! 

Participants must complete online registration and work submissions by July 15th, 2022 (23:59) (GMT+08:00) and get the letter of confirmation in the email.

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Theme: One World

Categories: Product Design, Visual Design and Digital Animation

** No registration fee
** No entry fee
** The Grand Prix is worth US$13,000
** The total prize is up to US$150,000
** 22 International Design Association Special Awards

Submit your design works now : https://www.tisdc.org/en/member/works
For member registration and upload steps, please visit: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLERVihrNxNnPk7O5NcaYTYgZZ9tGR6Pg1
To download our introduction and competition regulations, please visit:  https://www.tisdc.org/en/downloads  

If there’s any question, please contact us by Email – tisdc.tw@gmail.com / Line ID @984jpmwi

Seize the opportunity to show the world your works. Come and sign up Now!

The fourth stop of our TISDC Overseas Promotional Campaign was held from Wednesday, June 22^nd to Monday, June 27^th 2022 at the International Design Center NAGOYA (IdcN). The 6-day exhibition completed on Monday June 27^th successfully. In order to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of IdcN and to promote the friendly relationship between Taiwan and Japan, the International Design Center NAGOYA specially planned an overseas exchange online seminar in early July.

The overseas campaign was able to exhibit the works of the winners of 2021TISDC throughout the attentive support and planning from both the International Design Center NAGOYA and the Chubu Creators Club. Members of the Chubu Creators Club well-arranged the venue by not only placing the 2021TISDC portfolios of the winners, but also the competition DM of 2022TISDC. We hope that more and more Japanese students and teachers can get to know TISDC better through this exhibition. Furthermore, we would like to inspire the students majoring in design to create even more excellent works and absorb essentials from other international students.

On July 8^th, a specially planned overseas exchange online seminar “Social Design – 未来を作るアイディア (Social Design – ldeas to Create the Future)” invited the winner of the visual design category of 2021TISDC, designer Wei You-Lin and the winner of the product design category of 2021TISDC, designer Lin Ya-Zhu, and also design graduate Haruka Ota and the winner of the Disaster Mitigation Design Competition Ayane Nakahara shared the winning works and their creative ideas. Through the different backgrounds and the interaction of students, designers and design educators, the future will reflect on the social design and a new value creation required for the next era. It is hoped that this webinar will increase the international exchanges between young designers from Taiwan and Japan, and also create a new energy into design education in both countries.

Caption: TISDC’s exhibition at the International Design Center NAGOYA (IdcN)

Caption: TISDC’s exhibition at the International Design Center NAGOYA (IdcN)

Caption: TISDC’s exhibition at the International Design Center NAGOYA (IdcN)

Caption: TISDC’s exhibition at the International Design Center NAGOYA (IdcN)

Caption: TISDC’s exhibition at the International Design Center NAGOYA (IdcN)

Caption: July 8th Overseas Exchange Online Seminar -“Social Design–未来を作るアイディア”

Caption: July 8th Overseas Exchange Online Seminar -“Social Design–未来を作るアイディア”

Caption: July 8th Overseas Exchange Online Seminar -“Social Design–未来を作るアイディア”

One World. Many Stories !!!

Submit Now and Win the High Prizes.

Only 3 days away from the submission deadline of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition!! 

Participants must complete online registration and work submissions by July 15th, 2022 (23:59) (GMT+08:00) and get the letter of confirmation in the email.

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Theme: One World

Categories: Product Design, Visual Design and Digital Animation

** No registration fee
** No entry fee
** The Grand Prix is worth US$13,000
** The total prize is up to US$150,000
** 22 International Design Association Special Awards

Submit your design works now : https://www.tisdc.org/en/member/works
For member registration and upload steps, please visit: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLERVihrNxNnPk7O5NcaYTYgZZ9tGR6Pg1
To download our introduction and competition regulations, please visit:  https://www.tisdc.org/en/downloads  

If there’s any question, please contact us by Email – tisdc.tw@gmail.com / Line ID @984jpmwi

Seize the opportunity to show the world your works. Come and sign up Now!

Only One World, Care and Share!!!!

Submit Now and Win the High Prizes.

Only 1 day away from the submission deadline of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition!! 

Participants must complete online registration and work submissions by July 15th, 2022 (23:59) (GMT+08:00) and get the letter of confirmation in the email.

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Theme: One World

Categories: Product Design, Visual Design and Digital Animation

** No registration fee
** No entry fee
** The Grand Prix is worth US$13,000
** The total prize is up to US$150,000
** 22 International Design Association Special Awards

Submit your design works now : https://www.tisdc.org/en/member/works
For member registration and upload steps, please visit: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLERVihrNxNnPk7O5NcaYTYgZZ9tGR6Pg1
To download our introduction and competition regulations, please visit:  https://www.tisdc.org/en/downloads  

If there’s any question, please contact us by Email – tisdc.tw@gmail.com / Line ID @984jpmwi

Seize the opportunity to show the world your works. Come and sign up Now!

The theme for the 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition is One World. Organized by Ministry of Education, sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation, Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation, and TPCA Environment Foundation, endorsed by 21 Collaborators, executed by Asia University. Total Prize Money is up to US$150,000. TISDC is now one of the prestigious student design competitions worldwide. Thank you for your participation and support for 2022 TISDC. The registration deadline was officially closed on July 15 (Fri.), 2022. (GMT+8).

Once again, thank you all. We value your participation and support for 2022TISDC.

Let’s look forward to the coming up 2022TISDC Events! 
August: Online Preliminary Selection
October: Online Final Selection
November: Award Ceremony

Thank you and Good Luck! 

Organizer

Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education

Executive

Department of Visual Communication Design, Asia University

Sponsors

iSee Taiwan Foundation

Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation

Special Award Sponsor

TPCA Environment Foundation

Collaborators

The One Club for Creativity /ADC Awards (ADC)

Association for the Industrial Design (ADI)

The Bureau of European Design Association (BEDA)

Centro Brazil Design (CBD)

Creative Economy Agency (CEA) 

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media (Cumulus)

Design Business Chamber Singapore (DBCS)

Hong Kong Federation of Design Associations (FHKDA)

Good Design Australia (GDA)

German Design Council (GDC)

International Council of Design (ICoD)

International Poster Biennial in Mexico (IPBM)

Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP)

Korea Ensemble of Contemporary Design (KECD)

Lahti International Poster Triennial (Lahti)

Macau Designers Association (MDA)

Pan-Afrikan Design Institute (PADI)

Brno Biennale Association (SBB)

Taiwan Design Alliance (TdA)

The Design Alliance Asia (tDA Asia)

The World Design Organization (WDO)

The fifth stop of this year’s exhibition was held at the Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, from July 11th to July 25th. The exhibition cooperated with Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, inviting two groups of high school students to visit, hoping students all over the world can get to know TISDC better.

There are around 400 visitors that visited the exhibition. Despite the display of winning works, a throwback video and showreel were also included, hoping to showcase TISDC in different ways.

We hope that oversea students can take this opportunity to appreciate the 2021TISDC winning works and gain more inspiration and thoughts. A big thank you to the University Multimedia Nusantara again for all the provided support and assistance.

Caption: TISDC’s exhibition at Universitas Multimedia Nusantara

The 2022 Taiwan International Students Design Competition (TISDC) was hosted by the Ministry of Education and sponsored by the iSee Taiwan Foundation and Sayling Wen Foundation. The 2022 TISDC held a winner reunion together with the Taiwan Design Alliance (TdA) at Songyan Creative Hub on September 4^th. There are 10 TISDC winners and 11 professionals from design industry joining the event, including Tom Chen, Director of Black Tailors, Lance Han, Director of Dot Design, Jimmy Chang, Chairman of Chinese Industrial Designers Association, Yu Jui Chou, Director of KEV Design Studio, Benjamin Chen, Director of Boyu Design Inc., Chun Chieh Chang, Creative Director of Sparkly Identity, Chi Mei Chang, Director of Optima Integrated Design, Martin Yang, Chairman of TdA, Chia Chi Hong, Manager of Design Department of China Motor Corporation, and KF Lim, Founder of Bilateral Studio.

The TISDC now enters its 15^th years. It is recognized by the design academy and industry from the globe to be one of the most renown and credible international competitions. Moreover, the competition strives to promote design education and facilitate communication between young designers. It is hoped that the TISDC will not only be a quality student design competition but a platform that makes young designers even more in tune with the industry.

In the event, professionals presented creative ideas and shared experiences, which resulted in sparks of inspirations. Young designers not only gained valuable suggestions but were also able to widen their horizon while design professionals stated that the event was indeed a rare opportunity. They encouraged students to always be ambitious and expect the students to have an inspiring future with infinite possibilities.

Caption: Photos of professors form the TISDC project with professionals from Product Design and Visual Design Categories.

Caption: Young designers discuss with professionals during free talk session

Caption: 2022TISDC Winners’ Sharing Session Reunion

Product Design Category – 282 entries : Download Shortlist of Final Selection

Visual Design Category – 231 entries : Download Shortlist of Final Selection

Digital Animation Category – 74 entries : Download Shortlist of Final Selection

Environmental Sustainability Award-Product Design – 175 entries : Download Shortlist of Final Selection

Environmental Sustainability Award-Visual Design – 79 entries : Download Shortlist of Final Selection

Environmental Sustainability Award-Digital Animation – 19 entries : Download Shortlist of Final Selection

If there are any repeated, shortlisted entries, one of them will be disqualified.

Congratulations to all the finalists of the 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition!

All the finalists must complete the 2nd stage of work submission before 16:00, September 19th, 2022 (Taipei Time: GMT+8:00).

Submission Date : September 13th 08:00am to September 19th 16:00pm (Taipei Time: GMT+8:00)

For more details of work submission for Final Selection, please see the instructions below.

Instructions for 2nd stage of work submission:

A. Upload the electronic file(s) of the work:
Please upload the electronic file(s) of the work and clear high-quality half-length photo of each designer to the official website of 2022TISDC: www.tisdc.org/en 

B. Upload other required documents:

1. Upload a scanned file of student ID card or school enrollment certificate. For participants who just graduated this year, please upload a scanned file of your certificate of degree/diploma with month and year of graduation on it instead.

*Every designer should upload his/her own student ID card or school enrollment certificate.

2. Upload a scanned file of proof of date of birth (e.g. Passport/ Driver’s License/Identity Certificate) 

*Every designer should upload his/her own proof of date of birth.

*If the designer could not provide any of the documents mentioned above before the due date of 2nd stage of work submission, he/she will be regarded as abandoning his/her qualification for being the finalist.

3. Upload a scanned file of signed affidavit (click here). Please download the affidavit, fill out the form, and upload the scanned file of signed affidavit (PNG/JPG format). 
*All the designers should sign on the affidavit, electronic signatures are allowed. Each entry only needs one affidavit.

Important Notes:

1. An overdue submission will be regarded as the abandonment of the participant’s qualification for being the finalist.

2. Please use your registered email address and password to log into the official website of TISDC to upload files.

3. If the submitted work is involved in plagiarism or infringement of copyrights or other laws or is proven to be unoriginal design, or to have fraudulently copied ideas from other person’s work, the organizer of TISDC shall have the rights to disqualify the participant from participating in the competition.

4. During the processes of final selection, award ceremony, exhibition and portfolio editing, we may contact you through emails or phone calls. Your patience and kind cooperation will be highly appreciated. Thank you for your participation in this year’s competition and congratulations to all the finalists again!!

Please feel free to contact us via email (tisdc.tw@gmail.com) or phone calls (+886-4-23310066) if you have any questions.

Best Regards,

2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition

Organized by the Ministry of Education (Taiwan), sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation, Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation, and TPCA Environment Foundation, and is executed by Asia University. Taiwan International Student Design Competition is now in its fourteenth year. The theme of this year’s competition is “One World”. This year, the Competition attracted 16,749 entries from 867 schools and departments in 59 countries/regions around 6 continents, which is still a high record of submissions received.

The 2022TISDC Preliminary Selection in Taiwan of took place online on August 22nd to August 28th online. 112 experts in design from Taiwan, Germany, Singapore, France, Canada, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, United Kingdom, South Africa, and United States of America were invited to form the jury panels for Product Design Category, Visual Design Category and Digital Animation Category. In the seven days of online Preliminary Selection, 42 jurors from product design category, 42 jurors from visual design category and 28 jurors from digital animation category finished screening all the entries. After the strict and enthusiastic screening and the discussion of joint meeting of judging panel conveners, 587 entries were eventually shortlisted, which included works from Taiwan, India, United States of America, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, China, Singapore, Thailand, Russia, Belarus, Italy, Malaysia, Chile, Macau, Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Mexico, Turkey, Denmark, and Germany. These finalists will pursue the Grand Prix, which is worth NT$400,000, and the other awards in each category in the Final Selection.

Regarding the entries that became the finalists, the conveners of the three categories, including Ms. Peggy Wung, the Co-founder of Jin Tang Culture Co., Ltd and Mr. Sean Lee, the Managing Director of the iF Design Asia Ltd. for Product Design Category, Mr. Jamie Wu, the CEO of Blueprint Design Consultants Co., Ltd. and Ms. Stony Cherng, the Founder & Creative Director of STONY IMAGE CORPORATION for Visual Design Category, and Mr. Chun-Chieh Lien, the founder of dot2dot and Ms. Chiao-Chun Su, the Director of 23Design for Digital Animation Category, all agreed that “One World”, the theme of this year’s competition, is the concept to respond to “SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals,” which were advocated by the UN. This theme will then serve to remind students worldwide that it is important to look back to what has been created and think outside the box. Students use their design to resolve global sustainable development issues and thus amply fulfill their responsibilities as global citizens. Thus, jurors saw many participants demonstrate the relationship between humans and humans with environment in their selected works. This indicated that young participants did pay attention to this international social issue and tried to express their thoughts and find a way to solve problems in their entries, which impressed the jurors a lot.

The shortlist will be announced and posted on the official website of 2022TISDC in the next two weeks. Following the Preliminary Selection in Taiwan, 2022TISDC is going to hold the Online Final Selection from September 26th to October 21st. 7 domestic and 38 international designers will form the jury panels to demonstrate the diversity and credibility of TISDC and announce the winners of this year’s competition.

To know more about 2022TISDC, please visit https://www.tisdc.org/en.

Caption : Group Photo Taken with Ministry of Education, Jury Panel and Executive of 2022TISDC

The second-stage work submission for finalists of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition was officially closed on September 19, 2022.

Please note that overdue submission or disqualified participants’ status had been waived.

List of overdue submission and disqualified participants → Download List

On 21st of September, Wednesday, Professor Pang-Soong Lin, the project director of TISDC was appreciated to be invited to promote this year’s competition to the Department of Art and Art History, Colorado State University. Around 50 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. Although the submission is over, we still encourage students join the next year competition. Professor Lin hope that everyone does the creative thinking by design and also pay attention to the problems we are facing in the world. TISDC hope that students could make the best use of design to change the world for better. We look forward to see the students from Colorado State University take the gold opportunity in 2023 Taiwan International Student Design Competition.

Once again, we want to thank Professors from Colorado State University, John Gravdahl, Jason Frazier and Roberto Muntoreanu for their invitation and assistance in making the whole event a huge success and also let more students know the competition. We believe that much more students from Colorado State will bring the best design works and register for the 2023 competition!

Caption: Promotion at Colorado State University

On October 14th 2022, the “Final Selection Joint Meeting of the Judging Panel Conveners I” was hosted by the executive team of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (2022TISDC) at Chang Yung-Fa Foundation. Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, Prof. Sheng-Min Hsieh and Prof. Hsiao-Wei Fang leads the executive team to gather all the conveners of judging panel from each category. The conveners of the three categories, including Ms. Peggy Wung, the Co-founder of Jin Tang Culture Co., Ltd and Mr. Sean Lee, the Managing Director of the iF Design Asia Ltd. from Product Design Category, Ms. Stony Cherng, the Founder & Creative Director of STONY IMAGE CORPORATION from Visual Design Category, and Mr. Chun-Chieh Lien, the founder of dot2dot and Ms. Chiao-Chun Su, the Director of 23Design from Digital Animation Category to discuss the evaluation results of online final selection round 1 and round 2.

In the joint meeting of the judging panel conveners I, five conveners focus on the discussion required works and share their opinions according to the required reason from all the other jurors. In addition, they have also discussed the rules for winner substitution after the result of the Grand Prix. The result of final selection will be announced around mid-November. Many thanks to Ying-Ru Ji, the Division Chief of the Higher Education of the Ministry of Education for participating in this meeting. TISDC would like to show its special thanks to five conveners for their support and participation which assist to maintain the credibility of TISDC.

Caption: Ying-Ru Ji, the Division Chief of the Higher Education of the Ministry of Education

Caption: Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, Prof. Sheng-Min Hsieh and Prof. Hsiao-Wei Fang

Caption: Ms. Peggy Wung and Mr. Sean Lee from Product Design Category and Ms. Stony Cherng from Visual Design Category

Caption: Mr. Chun-Chieh Lien and Ms. Chiao-Chun Su from Digital Animation Category

Caption: Final Selection Joint Meeting of the Judging Panel Conveners I

The 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition is organized by the Ministry of Education, and sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation, the Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation and the TPCA Environment Foundation and executed by the Department of Visual Communication Design of Asia University. An Outcome Announcement of Final Selection & International Design Association Discussion Meeting for the 3 categories of the competition was held on the 16^th of October from 2:00 pm to 9:30 pm at Upgrade Business Center in Taipei.

This year, six conveners from the three categories, including Peggy Wung,Co-Founder of Jin Tang Culture Co., Ltd since 2020 Sean Lee, Managing Director of the iF Design Asia Ltd., Wu Jieh Min, Chairman of the Taiwan Poster Design Association, Stony Cherng, former Chairman of the Taiwan Graphic Design Association, Chun Chieh Lien, Founder of dot2dotmovie director, and Chiao Chun Su, Chairman of the Chinese Industrial Designers Association have joined the judging panel. Together with 112 judges from 31 countries in preliminary selection as well as 45 judges from 26 countries in the final selection, they completed an impossible task of choosing 73 award winning works out of the 16,749 entries, which come from 66 regions/countries and 867 departments and universities.

Three international conferences were held in the meeting, which was joined by the conveners and 31 final selection judges from different continents and countries despite the difference in time zone. Judges from across the globe not only praised the rigorous and transparent judging process but also felt reminiscent of the friendly and kind experiences they had in Taiwan.

We appreciate the 22 international design associations, who show tremendous support for the TISDC this year, including Art Directors Club of New York, Associazione per il Disegno Industriale in Italy, The Bureau of European Design Associations in Europe, Centro Brazil Design, Creative Economy Agency in Thailand, Confederation of Indian Industry, Cumulus, Design Business Chamber Singapore, Hong Kong Federation of Design and Creative Industries, Good Design Australia, German Design Council, ICoD, International Poster Biennial Mexico, Japan Institute of Design Promotion, Korea Ensemble of Contemporary Design, Lahti International Poster Triennial in Finland, Macau Designers Association, Pan-Afrikan Design Institute, Brno Biennale Association in Czech, Taiwan Design Alliance, The Design Alliance Asia in Malaysia, and World Design Organization. With the help of the 22 international design associations, a design platform is built, and the world is able to see the design power of Taiwan. We’d like to thank everyone who works and improves with us every year with the aim of showing the design of Taiwan to the world.

The Executive of Taiwan International Student Design Competition

Screenshot & Photos of Product Design Category Online Meeting

Screenshot & Photos of Visual Design Category Online Meeting

Screenshot & Photos of Digital Animation Category Online Meeting

We would like to send our immense gratitude to all jurors who spared time to attend this online meeting. The attendee list is as below:

Product Design Category

Sean Lee/Taiwan/Managing Director of the iF Design Asia Ltd.

Peggy Wung/Taiwan/Co-Founder of Jin Tang Culture Co., Ltd since 2020

Sakura Adachi/Japan/Sakura Adachi Design Studio / Owner / Designer

Marco De Santi/Italy/Studio Natural co-founder and design director

Maartje Pel/United Kingdom/Lead Industrial Designer, Medical & Scientific – DCA Design International, UK

Francesco Zurlo/Italy/Deputy Dean of the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano

Jarred Evans/United Kingdom/Managing Director PDR: International Centre for Product Design and Research UK

Pradyumna Vyas/India/Board member, World Design Organization (WDO)

Miyuki Tamai/Japan/2013-2017 Worked in Honda R&D Design Studio M crossing co.,ltd. (Material ConneXion® Tokyo) CEO

Visual Design Category

Jamie Wu/Taiwan/CEO of Blueprint Design Consultants Co., Ltd.

Stony Cherng/Taiwan/Founder & Creative Director of STONY IMAGE CORPORATION

Rikke Hansen/Denmark/Rikke Hansen / Educator / Creative Director – wheelsandwaves.dk

Gianni Tozzi/Italy/CCO International FutureBrand

Pekka Piippo/Finland/Design entrepreneur since 1997

Ali Akbar Sahiwala/Singapore/Founder & Creative Director of Rehla Design

Pavel Noga/Czech/Graphic Designer

Carlos Manuel Gonzalez Manjarrez/Mexico/Director of CG Design Studio

Kim, Hee Hyun/Korea/Professor, Dept of design Art College of ChungAng University

Aimo Katajamäki/Finland/Several national design and art awards e.g. Graphic Designer of the Year Award, State Prize for Design.)

Sio-Leong Chao/Macau/Founder and Creative Director of MO-DESIGN

William Harald-Wong/Malaysia/Chairman of The Design Alliance Asia

Digital Animation Category

Chun-Chieh Lien/Taiwan/Founder of dot2dot

Chiao-Chun Su/Taiwan/Director of 23Design

Keith Blackmore/Canada/SPARK Animation Festival / Producer

Panop Koonwat/Thailand/Owner of FUUM Studio, Bangkok

Masashi Kawamura/Japan/Awarded by iF Design Award / Good Design Award / One Show / Cannes Lions etc

Zinnia Nizar/Indonesia/Head of Academy of Apple Developer Academy IL

Pichit Virankabutra/Thailand/(2019) Director of Creative City Development, Creative City Development Department, Creative Economy Agency (CEA)

Robin Turner/South Africa/Head of Dept for Graphic & Multimedia Design (greenside Design Center)

Hung Keung/Hong Kong/New & Digital Media Artist / Scholar / Researcher

David Appiah/Ghana/Adam & Eve DDB/MBAstack /Haygarth – Freelance Lead/ Senior Integrated Designer

Chia-Chang Yang/Taiwan/Chairman of Taiwan Design Alliance

On October 24th 2022, the “2nd Final Selection Joint Meeting of the Judging Panel Conveners” was hosted by the executive team of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition at Chang Yung-Fa Foundation, and Ying-Ru Ji, the Division Chief of the Higher Education of the Ministry of Education is also invited to participate to this vital meeting.

Prof. Apex Lin again leads the executive team to gather all the conveners of judging panel from each category. The conveners of the three categories, including Ms. Peggy Wung, the Co-founder of Jin Tang Culture Co., Ltd and Mr. Sean Lee, the Managing Director of the iF Design Asia Ltd. from Product Design Category, Mr. Jamie Wu, the CEO of Blueprint Design Consultants Co., Ltd. and Ms. Stony Cherng, the Founder & Creative Director of STONY IMAGE CORPORATION from Visual Design Category, and Mr. Chun-Chieh Lien, the founder of dot2dot and Ms. Chiao-Chun Su, the Director of 23Design from Digital Animation Category to confirm the final winning works which includes Gold, Silver, Bronze and Honorable Mention, Environmental Sustainability Awards and International Design Association Awards.

In the joint meeting of the judging panel conveners, reflecting back to the international jury panel, including 56 foreign designers during the preliminary selection and 38 foreign jurors participating online final selection, it definitely shows the public credibility of Taiwan International Student Design Competition.

Many thanks to t Ying-Ru Ji, the Division Chief of the Higher Education of the Ministry of Education for participating and Project Director of TISDC, Prof. Apex Lin, for leading TISDC in arranging this meeting. TISDC would like to show its special thanks to six conveners for their effort and participation which led a perfect ending of the final selection.

Caption: Ying-Ru Ji, the Division Chief of the Higher Education of the Ministry of Education

Caption: Ms. Peggy Wung and Mr. Sean Lee from Product Design Category

Caption: Mr. Jamie Wu and Ms. Stony Cherng from Visual Design Category

Caption: Mr. Chun-Chieh Lien and Ms. Chiao-Chun Su from Digital Animation Category

Caption: Final Selection Joint Meeting of the Judging Panel Conveners II

Grand Prix List of Winner

Product Design Category List of Winner

Visual Design Category List of Winner

Digital Animation Category List of Winner 

Brand Specified Special Prize：Environmental Sustainability Award List of Winner

The 2022 Taiwan International Students Design Competition, hosted by the Ministry of Education, is the biggest international design competition for students. Today the 2022 TISDC unveiled its winning list, among which are 43 works created by students in Taiwan including Gold Prizes in Product Design, Visual Design, Digital Animation Categories, as well as Environmental Sustainability Award. This year the Grand Prix was awarded to Outlaw, created by a group of Taiwanese students including Hao-Yang Peng, Yu-Ching Ling, Chia-Shan Liu, Yung-Hua Lu, and Yu-Hua Yang from the National Taiwan University of Arts. It shows that the Taiwanese students’ creative power is firmly recognized by the international design community.

The theme of the 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition is One World, which focuses on unity and sustainability of the world. This year, the TISDC attracted 16,749 entries from 867 schools in 66 countries/regions. In total, 112 designers from 31 countries were selected to be the jury in preliminary selections, including 42 designers in Product Design, 42 in Visual Design, and 28 in Digital Animation. The jury had chosen 587 entries to enter final selection where 15 entries will be chosen for each of the three categories and 15 entries will be awarded in Environmental Sustainability Award. Selected by jury coming from 28 countries, these 77 award winning pieces made it to the finals with a finalist acceptance rate at 3.6%. The odds of being awarded in the TISDC is only 0.4%, which shows how intense the competition is and how invaluable the awards are.

The TISDC comprises of awards, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, which include one Grand Prix of the competition, and one gold, one silver, three bronzes, as well as 12 honorable mentions in each of the three categories. There are also 22 International Design Association Special Prize co-sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation and Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation and three Environmental Sustainability Awards sponsored by the TPCA Environment Foundation.

Among the 43 award winning works that were created by Taiwanese students, the Grand Prix Outlaw by Hao-Yang Peng, Yu-Ching Ling, Chia-Shan Liu, Yung-Hua Lu, and Yu-Hua Yang from the National Taiwan University of Arts is awarded with a monetary prize of NTD$ 400,000. The works NGTF by Shih-Hsuan Chiu from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, WILD VEGETABLES’ by Shu-Qi Yang, Ling-Ci Chang, Tsai-Tzu Hsiao, Pin- Xuan Lin, Yu-Pei Chang from Chaoyang University of Technology, Ant Hotel by Yu-Hsuan Teng, Jia-Jia Chang, Yu-Chien Chen, Ci-Syuan Chen, Ming-Hsuan Lin from the National Taiwan University of Arts grab the Gold prize in Product Design, Visual Design, and Digital Animation. While Tou Do Lab by Yu-Wen Huang, Ci-Han Huang, Sing-Huei Wann, Tzu-Ching Su, Shu-Ti Li, and Yu-Ang Zhu from Ling Tung University, and Same Old by Sheng Xiang Su, Ken-Chuan Chang, and Weng-Ian Kou from National Yunlin University of Science & Technology were both awarded Environmental Sustainability Award.

The award ceremony and exhibition will be held on November 29 at Eslite Performance Hall. The address is: No. 88, Yanchang Rd., Xinyi Dist., Taipei City. The award-winning works will also be exhibited in the National Library of Public Information in Taichung, from December 6 to December 15. The address is: No. 100 Wuquan South Road. South District, Taichung. We invite all of you to join the exhibition! List of award winners this year are already announced at www.tisdc.org.

Grand Prix

Gold Prize of Product Design Category

Gold Prize of Visual Design Category

Gold Prize of Digital Animation Category