The Taiwan International Design Competition (TISDC) participated a series of activities in the International Poster Biennial in Mexico (BICM) from October 26^th to November 3^rd. The BICM invited four world renowned poster competitions and representatives including Lech Majewski, Chairman of the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Jean-Michel Géridan, Chairman of the All to Chaumont’ Poster Competition / Managing Director of the Général chez le Signe, centre national du graphisme, John Gravdahal, Chairman of the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, and Xavier Bermudez, Director of the International Poster Biennial in Mexico. Each organizer from each design competition as well as poster award shared core values and experiences of their competition through exhibition, workshop, and seminar. Apex Lin, project director of the TISDC, also shared cooperation plan with them through this platform.

Since 2015, the TISDC has been sponsored by the iSee Taiwan Foundation and the Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation and has been working with more than 22 international design association. It is hoped that a platform made for design communication can be established through this kind of cooperation so that Taiwan can gradually gain influence in the design community. More importantly, the TISDC is hoping to boost design visibility of Taiwan and to provide an international platform where young designers can show their capabilities to the whole world.

Caption: Jean-Michel Géridan, Director of the Général chez le Signe, centre national du graphisme, introducing background and future of the International Poster Competition Chaumont in a lecture. He not only said that poster is moving toward a more experimental method but revealed “Who Are you?” will be the theme for the biennial in 2023.

Caption: Exhibition of Lech Majewski, Director of the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw

Caption: Xavier Bermudez, Director of the International Poster Biennial in Mexico and Apex Lin, Project Director of the Taiwan International Design Competition

Caption: John Gravdahal, Chairman of the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition and Apex Lin, Project Director of the Taiwan International Design Competition

The 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) will be holding an exhibition with the International Poster Biennial in Mexico (BICM) at the Veracruzana Normal School in Xalapa from October 31^st to November 25^th. The month-long exhibition will present awarded entries from the 2019 to the 2021 TISDC.

The opening ceremony of the exhibition was held at the Veracruzana Normal School in Xalapa on October 31^st. The ceremony was hosted by the Director of the BICM, a partner of the TISDC. The event attracted hundreds of designers and students worldwide and was well received by participants, which includes Lech Majewski, Chairman of the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Jean-Michel Géridan, Chairman of the All to Chaumont’ Poster Competition / Managing Director of the Général chez le Signe, centre national du graphisme, and John Gravdahal, Chairman of the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition. Renowned designers coming from different fields also attended the event, such as Carlos González Manjarrez, Design Director at CG Design in Mexico, Götz Gramlich, founder of gggrafik design in Germany, Klaus Welp, founder of Welp Ltd in Finland, Erin Wright, a famous American designer, Ken Cato, founder of Cato Brand Partners in Australia, and Eric Boelts, principal of Brain Bolts in America. It is hoped that the exhibition will bring in more design discussion in this vibrant design school. Moreover, it is hoped that TISDC can interact and mingle with Mexican culture so that design students in Mexico can be inspired by the creative entries from other countries. The TISDC is looking forward to receiving more entries from design students in Mexico next year.

Caption: TISDC’s exhibition at Veracruzana Normal School in Mexico

Since 2015 the Taiwan International Design Competition (TISDC), sponsored by the iSee Taiwan Foundation and the Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation, has started establishing authorized prize with design association worldwide as well as inviting representatives to join the competition as juries. There were only 10 prizes authorized by design association in 2015 while in 2022 the TISDC already works with 22 international associations. The TISDC improves brand visibility and influences of the competition every year.

The International Poster Biennial in Mexico (BICM) was established in 1990 and has been active for more than 30 years. The BICM is one of the top 5 poster exhibitions in the world together with the Lahti International Poster Triennial, the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, International Poster Triennial in Toyama, and the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition. The BICM is also one of the top 3 biennials worldwide. It works with the most important cultural institution in Mexico, and it also gains recognition from the global design community. Poster designers flock to BICM every 2 years while a global design summit is also held biennially. The BICM has possessed more than 40,000 posters from around the world.

Instead of inviting international association to offer special prize like before, this is the first time that the TISCD jointly established a new Category F as well as authorized prize in the 17 BICM. The theme of Category F is Diversity in One World where students around the world were invited to submit their take on the 17 SDGs proposed by the UN. There are 41 finalists and 4 of them were selected as winners of the category. The City and Nature 2 by Xing Lu from China won the first prize, the Diversity of the World by Wenjie Yu from China won the second place, the City Tree by Hung Te Chung from Taiwan grabbed the third place, and the Stop Illegal Hunting by Ching Hsuan Chiang from Taiwan was awarded with honorable mention. Without doubt, friendship and cooperation is strengthened by the jointly established prizes. The cooperation of the 2 competitions provides a platform where new generation of designers get to work with one other. The TISDC has indeed successfully recognized by the international community and built a brand visibility. The 17 BICM award ceremony and winners as well as finalist exhibition were held on the October 27^th this year at the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico city.

Caption: The director of the 17 BICM, Xavier Bermúdez announced winners of the Category F and the project director Apex Lin presented the awards.

Caption: Category F Winners

Caption: Exhibition of Category F Winners and Finalists

Caption: Exhibition of the 17^th BICM finalist and winners at Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City

Organized by the Ministry of Education and being the largest-scale global design contest for students, 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition will hold its award ceremony at Eslite Performance Hall in Songshan Cultural and Creative Park on November 29. In this year’s edition, Taiwanese students perform brilliantly, winning a total of 43 prizes, including the grand prix and the gold prizes of all three categories of Product Design, Visual Design and Digital Animation. Such an excellent result stands out at the international level and demonstrates the abundant energy for creativity and design of the students.

Marking the 15^th anniversary this year, Taiwan International Student Design Competition has been widely recognized by the global design community as being both prestigious and credible and has served as the best example of the Ministry of Education’s success in promoting design education. The theme of this year’s edition, One World, resonates with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations and emphasizes the core spirit of the world as one family towards global sustainability. Students are expected to have the courage to face and reflect on issues related to sustainability, incorporate the concepts of the SDGs into their works, and fulfill their responsibilities as global citizens

This year, a total of 16,749 participating entries come from 867 school departments of 66 countries/regions. The composition of the jury panel is highly international. During the preliminary selection, 587 works were shortlisted by 112 professionals from 31 countries around the world; as for the final selection, the jury panel with 28 nationalities further picked 77 works as winners. The low finalist rate of 3.6% and the even lower winning rate of 0.4% highlight the preciousness of the winning entries.

In total, 77 entries have stood out and won the following prizes: 1 grand prix of the year and 1 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronzes, and 12 honorable mentions for each category (financed by the Ministry of Education); 22 international design association special prizes (jointly sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation and Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation); 3 Environmental Sustainability Award prizes (established by TPCA Environment Foundation).

The coveted grand prix is won by “Outlaw,” an animation created by Hao-Yang Peng, Yu-Ching Ling, Chia-Shan Liu, Yung-Hua Lu and Yu-Hua Yang from National Taiwan University of Arts. Telling a story about a pregnant woman hiding a secret and evading the police, this work demonstrates engaging narrative and drawing styles with just the right emotions and rhythm. Highly praised by the jurors as a mature piece of work with good quality, this animation wins the grand prix along with 400,000 NTD.

The gold prize of the Product Design category goes to “NGTF,” created by Shih-Hsuan Chiu from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. This is a friendly force-feeder kit that includes internal and external nasogastric tubes, a feeding rack, nutrients in foil packages and a liquid aspirator, and the kit is easy to carry and can thus reduce the inconvenience of eating out for patients. The jurors unanimously acclaim the high completeness of the product’s appearance, functions, details and branding, which can address the current pain points in the feeding process and find a more dignified way to care for patients.

The gold prize of the Visual Design category goes to “WILD VEGETABLES’,” created by Shu-Qi Yang, Ling-Ci Zhang, Tsai-Tzu Hsiao, Pin- Xuan Lin and Yu-Pei Chang from Chaoyang University of Technology. This work aims to promote the indigenous vegetables in Taiwan by designing “planting packages” with handmade seeded paper and paper-folded pots and by presenting, with both texts and images, seven harsh environments of climate change and the characteristics of 21 indigenous vegetables. The jury panel praises its meticulous layout and clear classification, which make this work refreshingly creative in terms of both visual and packaging design.

The gold prize of the Digital Animation category goes to “Ant Hotel,” created by Yu-Hsuan Teng, Jia-Jia Chang, Yu-Chien Chen, Ci-Syuan Chen and Ming-Hsuan Lin from National Taiwan University of Arts. Using the ants in a hotel as the symbol of human desire, this animation peeks at the story of each hotel occupant regarding human nature. The jury panel points out that this work boldly copes with a dark topic, while the suspense in its story plot brings a strong aftertaste, hence the decision of awarding it the gold prize.

The winner list of this year’s edition has been released on the official website of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (www.tisdc.org), and the award ceremony and the exhibition of the winning works will take place on November 29 at Eslite Performance Hall in Songshan Cultural and Creative Park (address: B1, No. 88, Yanchang Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City). After being held in Taipei, the exhibition will move to National Library of Public Information in Taichung (address: No. 100, Wuquan South Road, South District, Taichung City) between December 6 and December 15, 2022. You are welcome to have a visit.

Picture of Winners and Guests

Address by Political Deputy Mon-Chi Lio, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education

Address by Mr. Don Chen, CEO of iSee Taiwan Foundation

Address by Mr. Simon Chen, Chairman of iSee Taiwan Foundation

Political Deputy Mon-Chi Lio, Department of Higher Education Present the Grand Prix

Political Deputy Mon-Chi Lio, Department of Higher Education Present the Gold Prize

Picture of Winners and Guests

The Award Ceremony and Exhibition of the 2022 Winning Works

As the pandemic is getting better, 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition invited 6 international design association representatives to attend the Award Ceremony and also held the “International Design Organization Collaboration Meeting” at Taipei Horizon on Nov. 30th.

The 7 international design association representatives are from all over the world: Pichit Virankabutra Director of Creative City Development, Pradyumna Vyas Special Advisor of CII, Su Eing Chee President of DBCS, Makiko Tsumura Director of JDP, Yoonho YOO President of KECD, Lorenzo Imbesi President of Cumulus and Jun-Hong Chen Executive Supervisor of Taiwan Design Alliance. Not only did TISDC share the outcome of this year’s promotion, but also open the discussion of future collaborations with all the associations. Representatives also gave advice and suggestions toward TISDC according to past collaborations.

Project Director Apex Lin also mentioned that TISDC is in its 15th year, not only does this competition have great outcomes each year, the internationalization and total entries outcome each year is also highly recognized by the representatives.

Thanks to the 7 international design associations representatives, TISDC hopes to become internationalized and to integrate the influence of design from Taiwan, creating more opportunities for young designers all over the world. Also a big thank you to Ministry of Education, Higher Education Department Ms. Wang Chienn for participating the event and giving much support to TISDC.

Yoonho YOO, President of KECD

Pradyumna Vyas, Special Advisor of CII

Pichit Virankabutra, Director of Creative City Development

Su Eing Chee, President of DBCS

Makiko Tsumura, Director of JDP

Lorenzo Imbesi, President of Cumulus

Group Photo of the Collaboration Meeting

There’s the news about 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition Award Ceremony released by Associated Press on December 2nd, 2022. Associated Press is now the largest news agency in the world and the media reports are always influential.

The news shows that the Design from Taiwan Shines Worldwide as the main axis 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition Announces the Winner List International Student Design Competition was initiated back in 2008 and is marking its 15th anniversary this year, in 2022. TISDC has now been widely recognized by the global design community as being both prestigious and credible and has served as the best example of the Ministry of Education’s success in promoting design education. This year, a total of 16,749 participating entries came from 867 school departments of 66 countries/regions. The composition of the jury panel was highly international. During the preliminary selection, 587 works were shortlisted by 112 professionals from 31 countries around the world, with 56 jurors from Taiwan and 56 from abroad, respectively (The ratio of domestic to foreign jurors was 50%:50%). As for the final selection, the jury panel consisted of 45 professionals from 28 countries, with 39 of them being international jurors and only 6 from Taiwan (The international jurors accounted for 80%, while the domestic ones 20%). Eventually, 77 works were picked as winners. The low finalist rate of 3.6% and the even lower winning rate of 0.4% highlight the preciousness of the winning entries, which have stood out to win the following prizes: 1 grand prix of the year and 1 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronzes, and 12 honorable mentions for each category (financed by the Ministry of Education); 22 international design association special prizes (jointly sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation and Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation); 3 Environmental Sustainability Award prizes (established by TPCA Environment Foundation).

Since 2015, TISDC has received the sponsorship of iSee Taiwan Foundation and Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation to cooperate with 22 international design associations. These global design partners are located across the five continents of Europe, Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, and they all enjoy high reputation and a large scale. The 22 organizations, which have authorized the establishment of international design association special prizes in TISDC, include: Cumulus, International Council of Design (ICoD), World Design Organization (WDO), The Bureau of European Design Associations (BEDA), Pan Afrikan Design Institute (PADI), International Poster Biennial in Mexico (IPBM), among others, and the winners of these international design association special prizes this year came from Poland, India, Thailand, the United States, Taiwan, etc. Through such a cooperation mechanism, an international design exchange platform has been built, which can expand the influence of design from Taiwan, allow Taiwan to be seen through design, and provide young students worldwide with a stage where they can shine and unleash great potential.

In addition, TISDC has cooperated with the International Poster Biennial in Mexico (BICM) this year. By setting up a TISDC special prize in this competition, TISDC enjoys the opportunity to be co-listed with the United Nations Development Program and Amnesty International, which helps advance TISDC towards its goal of further internationalization and branding.

Please visit official website for more information：Design from Taiwan Shines Worldwide (apnews.com)

The theme of the 2023 Taiwan International Student Design Competition is revealed. The annual theme of 2023 is: Compassion.

The theme “Compassion” is in accordance with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. We hope to encourage students of all nations to observe and care about the issues around them and in the world. With a design mindset of empathy and solicitude, they can make the world a better place.

Bangkok Design Week is in its 6^th year, the theme of 2023 is “urban’NICE’zation, wants to convey that during the pandemic, many cities around the world are facing challenges and hope that creative people could create with their inspiring and encouraging idea and build a better city.

On February 3rd, Project Manager of TISDC and the Associate Project Director Sheng-Min Hsieh had a dinner party with the executive director Mr. Chakrit Pichyangkul and director Mr. Pichit Virankabutra. The executive director Mr. Chakrit Pichyangkul emphasizes the importance of internationalization of CEA and hope to have deeper and more collaboration with TISDC. They also will assist with the promotion of TISDC this year.

Project manager of TISDC participated in the opening ceremony of the Bangkok Design Week today (Feb. 4th). According to the Bangkok Design Week, over 60 national administrative departments, public departments, academic departments, and international organizations join annually, with over 2,000 designers and design-related industries, and attract over 400,000 domestic and international participants. Bangkok Design Week has accumulated over 1,750,000 participants in the past five years bringing a total volume of 130 million THB. Associate Project Director Sheng-Min Hsieh met one of his former students, Li-Mei Chen (now Head of Dept. of Visual Communication Design, TUT), leading her students on a visit to the Bangkok Design Week. This has proved the international influence and importance of the Bangkok Design Week.

TISDC would like to thank our international collaboration partner, Creative Economy Agency (CEA), for their long-term support. This is the first stop of 2023 TISDC’s Overseas Promotional Campaign in Bangkok Design Week. The exhibition is located at CHAI PHATTHANASLIP from Feb. 4th (Sat.) to Feb. 12th (Sun.).            

TISDC has exhibited the works of 2022 TISDC winners in the 2023 Bangkok Design Week. TISDC hopes to invite students and the public to know more about us as well as to see different works made by designers from all over the world. We hope to inspire and accumulate many more creativities.

A big thank you for the huge support from the public and, of course, the Creative Economy Agency for all the help to make this event a huge success.

Caption: Associate Project Director Sheng-Min Hsieh had a dinner party with the executive director Mr. Chakrit Pichyangkul and director Mr. Pichit Virankabutra

Caption: 2023TISDC Sponsors iSee Taiwan Foundation and Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation and TPCA Environment Foundation

Caption: TISDC Winners’ Exhibition at Bangkok Design Week 2023
 

Caption: Opening Ceremony of Bangkok Design Week 2023
 

Caption: Associate Project Director Sheng-Min Hsieh met one of his former students, Li-Mei Chen (now Head of Dept. of Visual Communication Design, TUT) and Sheng-Wen Wang, Head of PR Department / Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Dept. of Visual Communication Design, Tainan University of Technology

Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) 2023 Competition’s Promotional Campaign was held on the 7th stop at Taipei Jingwen High School!

The publicity team came to Taipei Jingwen High School on April 7th, 2023 (Friday). The founder Shih-Hsuan Chiu gave an exciting speech entitled “Achieve the society with design”, and won the 2021TISDC Product Design Environmental Sustainability Award and the 2022 Product Design Gold Award”. TISDC was very honor to be there at Jingwen High School, joined with the Sprout Project of Design-International Design Competition (IDC) project manager. There were about 168 teachers and students participating in the event!

The founder Shih-Hsuan Chiu started with the meaning of design. He explained how a product evolves to solve the difficulties people encounter in their daily lives, how design thinking improves human laziness, and how it advances technology and social development. In addition, the founder also shared his experience of participating and winning prizes in TISDC, encouraging students to actively participate in the competition to gain opportunities and train their ability to finish drafts within a limited time. The founder Chiu compared participating in the competitions to playing video games, trying to challenge repeatedly. No matter what the result was. It will always grow on the way of each attempt.

2023TISDC thanks again for the honor of being invited by Taipei Jingwen High School. We would also like to thank director Chen Yen Ting for his assistance in arranging the event, and the students for their active participation, which made the event a great success!

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The world’s largest international student design competition “Taiwan International Student Design Competition” (TISDC) 2023 Promotional Campaign is officially launched!

The project manager of TISDC at National United University with the project manager of the Sprout Project of Design-International Design Competition (IDC) was appreciated for promoting this year’s competition at National United University of Department of Industrial Design on March 1st. There are about 170 teachers and students  participating in the event.

The theme “Compassion” is in accordance with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. Expected that students will observe and care about daily people and things in the world and around them through design, and design with  empathy and solicitude they can make the world a better place.

The online registration and work submissions of 2023TISDC starts on May 15th and will end on July 15th. We hope that young student designers could not only broaden their horizon but also have the chance to be seen by the world through our design competition, which also serves as a platform.

Finally, we would like to give our big thanks to Professor Wei-Ken Hung, Director of the Department of Industrial Design for the perfect arrangement and assistance of this event.

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On 11th April, 2023, the executive team of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) was led by the associate project directors, Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, Prof. Shi-Fu Lee and Lecturer Miira Lin, to promote this year’s competition at New Era University College. Around 40 teachers and students joined the promotional events together.

The associate project director of TISDC, Lecturer Miira Lin, revealed that “Compassion” is the theme of this year’s competition and it’s in accordance with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. With a design mindset of empathy and solicitude, they can make the world a better place.

Special thanks to Dr. Raha Jaafar from New Era University College for helping TISDC arrange the promotional events and invite all the teachers and students to join together. With their assistance and support, the promotional events had rounded off. We hope design schools in Malaysia could keep following the news of TISDC and actively participate in the competition. We look forward to everyone’s excellent works.

Caption: Promoting TISDC at New Era University College

On 11^th April, 2023, the executive team of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) was led by the associate project directors, Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, Prof. Shi-Fu Lee and Lecturer Miira Lin, to promote this year’s competition at National Academy of Arts, Culture & Heritage. Around 60 teachers and students joined the promotional events together.

The associate project director of TISDC, Lecturer Miira Lin, revealed that “Compassion” is the theme of this year’s competition and it’s a concept rooted in affective commitment. Thus, Lecturer Lin hopes to encourage students of all nations to observe and care about the issues around them and in the world.

Special thanks to the Rector, Dr. Ruslan Abd Rahim, Farhan Mohamad, Head of Programme (Animation), Fariz Ghazali, Animation Lecturer, Noraisyah Rahman and Faiz Salleh, Assistant Registrar Faculty from National Academy of Arts, Culture & Heritage for helping TISDC arrange the promotional events and invite all the teachers and students to join together. With their assistance and support, the promotional events had rounded off. We hope design schools in Malaysia could keep following the news of TISDC and actively participate in the competition. We look forward to everyone’s excellent works.

Caption: Promoting TISDC at National Academy of Arts, Culture & Heritage

The associate project directors, Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, Prof. Shi-Fu Lee and Lecturer Miira Lin led the executive team to visit and promote TISDC at Raffles College of Higher Education Kuala Lumpur on 10^th April. Around 55 teachers and students joined the promotional events together.

The promotion campaign is mainly about introducing the theme“Compassion”. Lecturer Miira Lin shared many past winning works from Malaysia. She suggested students to connect with the sustainable development goals for the design works. We hope to see that everyone can bring their past design works to participate TISDC this year.

Special thanks to Ms. Woon Szu Pei, Senior Lecturer and Ms. Alice Teoh, Programme Coordinator from Raffles College of Higher Education Kuala Lumpur for helping TISDC arrange the promotional events and invite all the teachers and students to join. With their assistance and support, the promotional events had rounded off. We look forward to all the student’s participation in 2023TISDC.

Caption: Promoting TISDC at Raffles College of Higher Education Kuala Lumpur

Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), a remarkable international competition in Taiwan design education, is in its sixteenth year. Led by the associate project directors of TISDC, Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, Prof. Shi-Fu Lee and Lecturer Miira Lin, the executive team of TISDC visited Malaysia on 10th April and promoted TISDC at Universiti Teknologi MARA. In total, around 100 teachers and students joined the promotional events together.

Targeting on the theme, “Compassion,”of this year’s competition, the associate project director of TISDC, Lecturer Miira Lin, not only introduced the history of TISDC to the attendees but also shared some of the winning works with everyone, hoping to inspire the students who are interested in joining the competition and creating some sparkles in diverse cultures and design. Lecturer Miira also encouraged students to accumulate their design energy, view things and difficulties from distinct perspectives, and try their best to stand in others’ shoes when solving problems and doing design.

Special thanks to Dr. Sharipah Ruzaina Syed Aris, Dr. Hamimah Hashim, Dr. Mohd Khairezan Rahmat, Dr. Roslaili Anuar, Dr. Muhammad Faiz Sabri of Universiti Teknologi MARA for helping TISDC arrange the promotional events and invite all the teachers and students to join. With their assistance and support, the promotional events had rounded off. We hope design schools in Malaysia could keep paying attention to and actively participate in TISDC. We look forward to all the works!

Promoting TISDC at Universiti Teknologi MARA

The associate project directors, Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, Prof. Shi-Fu Lee and Lecturer Miira Lin led the executive team to visit and promote TISDC at the last campus, First City University College on 12^th April. Around 100 teachers and students joined the promotional events together.

The promotion campaign is mainly about introducing the theme“Compassion”which is in accordance with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. Lecturer Miira Lin shared many past winning works from Malaysia. She suggested students to connect with the sustainable development goals for the design works. Students do not have to worry about the work is not good enough. We hope to see that everyone can bring their past design works to participate TISDC this year.

Special thanks to John Ho, senior lecturer, Ang Tong Yin, dean of ICDA, Lee chee keong, head of program for BGDSHU, Tee ying jie, head of program for DIMD & DDMD, Melissa Annette D’Cruz, lecturer, Omar Khayam Abdul Samad, lecturer and Tee song yann, lecturer from INTI Center of Art and Design for helping TISDC arrange the promotional events and invite all the teachers and students to join. With their assistance and support, the promotional events had rounded off. We look forward to all the student’s participation in 2023TISDC.

Caption: Promoting TISDC at INTI Center of Art and Design

Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), a remarkable international design competition, is in its sixteenth year. On 13^th April, 2023, the executive team of Taiwan International Student Design Competition was led by the associate project directors, Prof. Shi-Fu Lee to promote this year’s competition at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Around 80 teachers and students joined the promotional events together.

Targeting at the theme of this year’s competition, “Compassion,” a concept rooted in affective commitment, the project manager of TISDC encouraged students to observe and think from different perspectives and most importantly try to stand in others’ shoes when facing and solving problems.

Special thanks to Professor Tan Ngeup Khun, LIM Kwang Boon Levi, Associate Dean and Ms. Yix from Nanyang Academy of Fine Art for helping TISDC arrange the promotional events and invite all the teachers and students to participate. We look forward to their students’ active participation in TISDC with their excellent works.

Caption: Promoting TISDC at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

The associate project directors, Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, Prof. Shi-Fu Lee and Lecturer Miira Lin led the executive team to visit and promote TISDC at First City University College on 10^th April. Around 70 teachers and students joined the promotional events together.

The promotion campaign is mainly about introducing the theme“Compassion”. Lecturer Miira Lin shared many past winning works from Malaysia. She suggested students to connect with the sustainable development goals for the design works. Students do not have to worry about the work is not good enough. We hope to see that everyone can bring their past design works to participate TISDC this year.

Special thanks to Associate Professor Dr. Debbie Gan Siew Siew, Assistant Professor Arthur Liaw Ik Han, Thanaletchumy Shanmugam, Yee Tze Yung, Mohd Khairul Azlan B. Rahmat and Soon Tet Suan, Grace and Nicolas from First City University College for helping TISDC arrange the promotional events and invite all the teachers and students to join. With their assistance and support, the promotional events had rounded off. We look forward to all the student’s participation in 2023TISDC.

Caption: Promoting TISDC at First City University College

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic over the past three years, the TISDC team hadn’t been able to carry out promotional campaign in China. From 7^th April to 10^th April, Project Director Apex Lin was finally able to travel to Xiamen, Fujian to visit Professor Liu She, the new dean of the School of Art at Xiamen University and teacher Ms. Zheng Meng Yue in Xiamen Xingcai Vocational & Technical College where the students submit the highest number of entries to the TISDC every year. In addition, Professor Qi Yue Chun, who helps promote TISDC in various universities in Fujian, invited Professor Zhang Wen Hua and her students to discuss and promote the TISDC. Professor Lin also sought advice from participants on how to improve TISDC’s organization, promotional campaign, registration process, official website, and other aspects. At the event, valuable advices for TISDC were obtained from the attending students and teachers.

Caption: Promoting 2023TISDC at Xiamen University

Caption (Left to right): Professor Qi Yue Chun, former vice dean of the School of Art at Xiamen University, Project Director Professor Apex Lin, and Professor Zhang Wen Hua from the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University

Caption: Project Director Apex Lin introducing the 2023TISDC to graduate students at Xiamen University

Caption: Project Director Apex Lin introducing the 2023TISDC

Caption (Left to right): Professor Qi Yue Chun, former vice dean of the School of Art at Xiamen University, Project Director Professor Apex Lin, and Professor Liu She, dean of the School of Art at Xiamen University

On March 30th, the project manager of TISDC and the project manager of the Sprout Project of Design-International Design Competition (IDC), conducted this year’s promotion at the Department of Commercial Design of National Taichung University of Science and Technology. Approximately 160 enthusiastic students and teachers participated in the event.

In response to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (the SDGs), the promotion aimed to encourage students to use design to solve global sustainability issues. The promotion talk focused on this year’s competition theme of “Compassion” providing detailed explanations of the competition rules while also encouraging students to actively cultivate their design skills and create their work with creativity.

We are honored to be invited by the Department of Commercial Design of National Taichung University of Science and Technology. We would also like to thank Professor Kuang-Chih Lo for his assistance in arranging the event and the students for their active participation, which made the event a success!

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Promoting 2023TISDC at National Taichung University of Science and Technology (4)

With the help of the Creative Economy Agency, TISDC held a promotional seminar at the Bangkok Design Week on February 5th, 2023 (Sun.). An estimate of 70 teachers and students both joined in person or live online.

The speaker, Associate Project Director Professor Sheng-Min Hsieh of Asia University, stated that this year’s theme “Compassion” is attached with UN’s SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals. TISDC hopes that students can link themselves with the SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals that was proposed by the UN in 2015 and are striving to achieve in 2030. We’d like students from all over the world to care more about the daily things in life and to make the world a better place by putting themselves in others’ shoes with a caring design mindset. The 17 SDGs are issues that designers and world leaders pay great attention to nowadays. These issues include hunger prevention, poverty, water resources, marine resources, as well as gender equality. We believe that students can showcase their creativity throughout diverse and meaningful works.

It was a huge honor to invite our 2020 Visual Design category judge, Tnop Wangsillapakun this year. He is also the founder and design director of Tnop Design. Three years ago, during the peak of the pandemic, TISDC adopted an online assessment method, and Mr. Wangsillapakun happened to be our judge that year. He was really surprised with the online system at that time. Mr. Wangsillapakun also mentioned that some students aren’t really quite familiar with the SDGs, but he believes that they can all find inspiration in their daily lives. Everything around us can be interpreted from different aspects, and ultimately they are all related to the SDGs. Mr. Wangsillapakun encourages Thai students to participate in our competition, due to the convenience of online registration. He also shared some advice concerning visual design, for example: tips on how to quickly catch judges’ eyes with your works and recommending students to create a complete work along with a brief concept.

In the Q&A session, a student was curious about how Thai students were doing in the competition. The speaker, Professor Sheng-Min Hsieh, stated that Thai students had outstanding performances in the Digital Animation category and won many prizes in the past. Also, Thai students specialize in using various mediums to create different product designs. Works created by Thai students easily stand out since they’re diverse and carry a strong ethnic style.

Associate Project Director Professor Sheng-Min Hsieh of Asia University would like to thank Mr. Wangsillapakun for his support and sharing. Once again, we want to thank the Creative Economy Agency (CEA). Without their support and help, we would’ve never made this event a huge success.

Caption: Associate Project Director Professor Sheng-Min Hsieh of Asia University introduce Sponsors iSee Taiwan Foundation and Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation

Caption: Associate Project Director Professor Sheng-Min Hsieh of Asia University introduce Sponsor TPCA Environment Foundation

Caption: TISDC Promotion Talk at Bangkok Design Week

As the 2023 TISDC overseas promotion kicked off, Project Director Prof. Apex Lin and Associate Project Director Associate Professor Hsiao-Wei Fang paid a visit to the Deputy Governor of Aichi Prefecture, Shinichiro Furumoto on February 3^rd. The visit was arranged by Mr. Mutsumi Teranishi, who is currently a Member of Aichi Prefectural Assembly and who also worked under Dentsu Tokyo as the producer for Expo 2005 in Aichi. The President of Chubu Creators Club, Katsunori Watanabe and CEO Akio Ogawa also joined the meeting with the team.

The meeting was full of inspiring discussions, Prof. Apex Lin expressed his gratitude to Japan for donating vaccine doses during the pandemic to Taiwan. He also appreciated that International Design Center NAGOYA invited him several times to be jury member, workshop lecturer, and to hold exhibition. With the assistance from Chubu Creators Club and International Design Center Nagoya, the TISDC has been successfully promoted in Japan and has received positive results.

On February 6^th, Project Director Prof. Apex Lin and Associate Project Director Hsiao-Wei Fang led a campus promotional campaign in Nippon Designer Academy of Fine Arts where around 25 professors and students had participated in. This year’s theme “Compassion” echoes with the UN’s SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals. It’s hoped that students can connect their design with the sustainable goals proposed by the UN in 2015, which is set to be achieved by 2030. We’d like students from all over the world to care more about the daily things in life and to make the world a better place by putting themselves in others’ shoes with a caring design mindset. Through this oversea promotional event, we hope to see more students from Japan joining the TISDC this year.

On the day of the campaign, Professor Lin and Associate Professor Fang also visited International Design Center NAGOYA for its 30^th anniversary event where student posters from Taiwan and Japan are exhibited. We want to again extend our gratitude to Chubu Creators Club as well as International Design Center NAGOYA for always being incredibly supportive to the TISDC.

Caption: (R to L) Representative Mutsumi Teranishi, President Katsunori Watanabe, CEO Akio Ogawa, Deputy Governor Shinichiro Furumoto, Project Director Prof. Apex Lin, Associate Project Director A.P. Hsiao-Wei Fang, and Former Dean at College of Arts of the National Taiwan Normal University Jun-Liang Lin.

Caption: campus publicity at the Japanese Academy of Designer Arts, Project Director Prof. Apex Lin introduce Sponsors iSee Taiwan Foundation and Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation

Caption: Project Director Prof. Apex Lin introduce Special Award Sponsor TPCA Environment Foundation

Caption: Project Director Prof. Apex Lin introduce Collaborators Twenty Two International Design Associations

Caption: International Design Center NAGOYA 30^th anniversary exhibition with President Yasuyuki Ito and Project Director Apex Lin

Caption1: International Design Center NAGOYA 30th anniversary exhibition venue

Caption2: International Design Center NAGOYA 30th anniversary exhibition venue

Caption3: International Design Center NAGOYA 30th anniversary exhibition venue

Caption4: International Design Center NAGOYA 30th anniversary exhibition venue