《TISDC 臺灣國際學生創意設計大賽》作者: designhu_ad

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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 “Regenerate.” This year, the Competition attracted 21,901 entries from 970 schools and departments in 59 countries/regions around 6 continents, which is still a high record of submissions received.

The 2021TISDC Preliminary Selection in Taiwan of took place online on August 20th to August 29th online. 80 experts in design from Taiwan, Germany, Denmark, Scotland, France, Canada, Malaysia, Japan, China, Thailand, Switzerland, United States of America and Hong Kong were invited to form the jury panels for Product Design Category, Visual Design Category and Digital Animation Category. Even if the world is impacted by COVID-19, there’s still a great amount of entries the competition received. In the ten days of online Preliminary Selection, 30 jurors from product design category, 30 jurors from visual design category and 20 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, 981 entries were eventually shortlisted, which included works from Taiwan, India, United States of America, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Iran, China, Singapore, Thailand, Russia, Hong Kong, Sweden, Italy, Malaysia, Czech Republic, Vietnam, Australia, Macau, Republic of Slovenia, Belgium, Israel, Canada, Spain, Poland, Bolivia, Ukraine, France, Switzerland 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 Mr. Kevin Yu-Jui Chou, the design director of KEV Design Studio and Ms. Peggy Wung, the Co-founder of Jin Tang Culture Co., Ltd for Product Design Category, Mr. James Chen, the creative director of Magic Creative Design and Ms. Vivi Liou, the founder and design director of Leaf Design for Visual Design Category, and Mr. Chun-Chieh Lien, the founder of dot2dot and Ms. Chishan Sandra Liu, the head of production at HTC VIVE ORIGINALS for Digital Animation Category, all agreed that “Regenerate,” 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 2021TISDC in the next two weeks. Following the Preliminary Selection in Taiwan, 2021TISDC is going to hold the Online Final Selection from September 23rd to October 22nd. 6 domestic and 39 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 2021TISDC, please visit https://www.tisdc.org/en.

Judging Process of Jury Panel

Group Photo Taken with Ministry of Education, Jury Panel and Executive of 2021TISDC

Group Photo Taken with the Executive Team (Project Director and Associate Project Director)

Voting Process of the Product Design Category

Voting Process of the Visual Design Category

Voting Process of the Digital Animation Category

Discussing of the Seleted Works

Product Design Category – 311 entries : Download Shortlist of Final Selection

Visual Design Category – 524 entries : Download Shortlist of Final Selection

Digital Animation Category – 146 entries : Download Shortlist of Final Selection

Environmental Sustainability Award-Produce Design – 54 entries : Download Shortlist of Final Selection

Environmental Sustainability Award-Visual Design – 47 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 2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition!

All the finalists must complete the 2nd stage of work submission before 16:00, September 16th, 2021 (Taipei Time: GMT+8:00).

Submission Date : September 9th 08:00am to September 16th 16:00 (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 2021 TISDC: www.tisdc.org/en

B. Upload & Mail 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,

2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition

The International Design Masters Lecture Series was held online for the first time this year. Themed on sustainable development goals (SDGs), the event was graced by the lectures of three professional designers: Professor Mugendi M’Rithaa from Kenya, Professor Isabel Herguera from Spain, and renowned designer Chen Pu from Taiwan. The event started with opening remarks by the program director of TISDC Chair Professor Apex Lin, 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.

The first lecturer of the event was the founder and designer of 247 Visual Arts Mr. Chen Pu from Taiwan. The topic was “Jointly Epiphyte – Design Ecosystem, Catalyst, and Derivation.” During his speech, Chen shared his design experiences, introduced the audience to different design mindsets and patterns, and encouraged students to find inspiration from the nature. As designers, despite being busy with work, it’s important to stay true to themselves and make sure that they are satisfied with their every piece of work. In addition, he mentioned that a few years ago, he was sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation, the sponsor of this year’s Taiwan International Student Design Competition, to make a design proposal in Africa. Learning a lot throughout the process, he genuinely hoped that design students could have the opportunity to exchange with international design organizations and explore different cultures in the future.

After that, we welcomed the professor of animation at Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) Professor Isabel Herguera with her speech “An Open Classroom: A Seminar on Animation Production That Takes Place Simultaneously Across Continents, Languages and Cultures.” Professor Herguera talked about her experiences of animation production using the animation film Letters From the Jungle as an example. The film is based on the letters written by ex-FARC guerrilla warriors, which described the toughest moments they went through during the Colombian conflict. This collaborative animation project was completed by institutions and art centers in several countries, including India, Mexico, Colombia, China, and Germany. Moreover, she mentioned that the animation industry was not severely impacted by the pandemic like other industries were. Instead, she was pleased to see that there have been more and more animation films around the world. She said that hopefully there would be even more talented animators in the industry to bring us more unique and diverse styles of animation films.

Last but not least, the President Emeritus of the World Industrial Design Organization (WDO) Professor Mugendi M’Rithaa enlightened us with the topic “Creativity for Resilience: Design and the UN SDGs.” He shared with us an African proverb, “If you don’t wish to get eaten by the crocodile, cross the river in a crowd,” pinpointing the importance of combating COVID-19 collectively. During his speech, he also introduced the audience to the seven SDGs WDO is currently promoting, which are Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being, Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, and Goal 17: Partnership for the Goals. After knowing the meaning of these seven goals, hopefully each participant can integrate design with the environment and understand the importance of sustainability.

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 and teachers. Their efforts and participation were what made this event possible.

Lecture I : “Jointly Epiphyte – Design Ecosystem, Catalyst, and Derivation.”

Lecture II : “An Open Classroom: A Seminar on Animation Production That Takes Place Simultaneously Across Continents, Languages and Cultures.”

Lecture II : An Open Classroom: A Seminar on Animation Production That Takes Place Simultaneously Across Continents, Languages and Cultures.

Lecture III : Creativity for Resilience: Design and the UN SDGs.

2021 International Design Masters Lecture Series Attracts 200 Participants Online

The second-stage work submission for finalists of 2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition was officially closed on September 16, 2021.

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

List of overdue submission and disqualified participants → Download List

The largest student competition in the world “Taiwan International Student Design Competition” is in its fourteenth year.
The Second “International Design Masters Lecture Series” in 2021 is officially back!
This time, we have invited three international design masters.

● Product Design – Kevin Yang (Taiwan), Founder of the 5% Design Action Social Design Platform
● Visual Design – Akio Ogawa (Japan), CEO of tmc inc. (Total Marketing Communication)
● Digital Animation – Robert Engler (Switzerland), Acting as an independent animation producer and director

They will share their personal experiences in Product Design, Visual Design and Digital Animation field.
If you are interested or from the design field, you must not miss out on this opportunity. It is FREE and all are WELCOME!

★Registration: From today till Oct. 25th (Monday) 12:00pm (GMT+8)
★Lecture Time: 2021 Oct. 27th (Thursday) 14:00-16:30 (GMT+8)
★Live streaming: Facebook of Taiwan International Student Design Competition

● Participants: The Lecture Series is open to students, teachers and those who are interested in design.
● How to register? Fill out the form and you are good to go!
● There is a limited quota of people for the online lecture, so don’t miss out on this opportunity!
● If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us via email: tisdc.tw@gmail.com

4th Ecuador Poster Bienal 2022 is now calling for entries. The deadline is May 31st, 2022.

Five Categories：

Category A : Advertising

Category B : Social, Cultural and Political

Category C : Students

Category D : Animated

Category E : Galapagos

Jury Panel：

Size of Entry :

700 px x 1000 px (vertical)、72 dpi、jpg、rgb、2000kb

Please visit EPB official website for more information：

http://www.ecuadorposterbienal.com

On October 15^th 2021, the “Final Selection Joint Meeting of the Judging Panel Conveners I” was hosted by the executive team of 2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (2021TISDC) at Taipei New Horizon. Prof. Apex Lin leads the executive team to gather Division Chief Ying-Ru Ji from Department of Higher Education Officer and all the conveners of judging panel from each category. The conveners of the three categories, including Mr. Kevin Yu-Jui Chou, the design director of KEV Design Studio and Ms. Peggy Wung, the Co-founder of Jin Tang Culture Co., Ltd for Product Design Category, Mr. James Chen, the creative director of Magic Creative Design and Ms. Vivi Liou, the founder and design director of Leaf Design for Visual Design Category, and Mr. Chun-Chieh Lien, the founder of dot2dot and Ms. Chishan Sandra Liu, the head of production at HTC VIVE ORIGINALS for 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, six 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 Grand Prix. The result of final selection will announced around mid-November. Many thanks to 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 support and participation which assist to maintain the credibility of TISDC.

Live Scene of Judging Panel Conveners Meeting

Organized by the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education (Taiwan), and executed by Asia University, 2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (2021TISDC) invited the final selection jurors to join 2021TISDC’s “Jurors of Final Selection & International Design Association Final Outcome Announcement” on October 17th (Sun.) 6:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. (GMT+8).

Led by Project Director Pan Soong Lin and the whole executive team, 36 jurors participated in this online meeting. This meeting aimed to announce the evaluation result of the Final Selection, the winning works in three categories- Product Design Category, Visual Design Category and Digital Animation Category and to confirm the International Design Association Special Prize.

As TISDC was unable to hold an actual selection this year due to the pandemic outbreak, TISDC hopes to maintain its credibility by holding this online meeting to gather broader perspectives from our international jurors. The theme of 2021TISDC is “Regenerate – building upon the foundation of the past and adopting a new perspective to forge a path into the future and give rise to a new paradigm” which is related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations in 2015. TISDC would also like to encourage students who are interested in design from both Taiwan and abroad to join the competition actively. During the meeting, 36 international jurors from over 10 countries attended and shared their unique perspectives and provided suggestions to TISDC. Not only does the meeting prove the internationalization of this competition, but also confirms the winners of this year’s TISDC. Furthermore, TISDC confirmed the final outcome of the international design association special prize with all the representatives.

Screenshot & photo of Product Design Category Online Meeting

Screenshot & photo of Visual Design Category Online Meeting

Screenshot & photo 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

Kevin Yu-Jui Chou/Taiwan/Design Director of KEV Design Studio

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

Päivi Tahkokallio/Finland/ Founder and CEO of Tahkokallio Design+

Leticia Castro/Brazil/Superintendent Director at Brazil Design Center

Pradyumna Vyas/India/Senior Advisor, CII

Yuta Inoue/Japan/Corporate Development Director of Whatever Inc.

Lei- Wang /China /Chief Representative China of German Design Council

Brandon Gien/Australia/CEO, Good Design Australia

Francesco Zurlo/Italy/ADI Index scientific committee member

Daniele Monti/USA/Weber Inc. Vice President of Global Creative with Weber, Inc.

Belén Moneo/Spain/Moneo Brock Architect and founding partner of Moneo Brock

Kelly Cheng/Singapore/ Founder and Creative Director of the publishing & design consultancy, The Press Room

Zak Stratfold/UK/Furniture and Spatial Designer at Ercol / L. Ercolani, UK

Visual Design Category

James Chen/Taiwan/Creative Director of Magic Creative Design

Vivi Liou/Taiwan/Founder and Design Director of Leaf Design

Leeyau Chun Chuan/Singapore/Singapore Certified Management Consultant (TUV SUD)

Xavier Bermundez/Mexico/Founder and director of the International Poster Biennial in Mexico 1990

Yoonho YOO/Korea/President of Korea Ensemble of Contemporary Design Association (KECD)

Klaus Welp/Finland/Works through his own visual communication company Welp Ltd

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

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

Christian Baun/Denmark/Logodesign Christian Baun, Graphic Designer / Director at Logodesign

Laureline Galliot/France/Founder and Creative director at Laureline Galliot Studio

Aram Huerta/Mexico/ Graphic artist, manager and independent cultural promoter

Digital Animation Category

Chun-Chieh Lien/Taiwan/INSIDE was the official selection of the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival

Chishan Sandra Liu/Taiwan/Head of Production at HTC VIVE ORIGINALS

Apisit Laistrooglai/Thailand/Creative Economy Agency (Public Organization) as Director – General

Philipp Heidkamp/Germany/Current Vice President and Executive Board Member of the Cumulus Association

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

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

Piotr Kardas/Poland/Curator, juror, activist

Konstantin Bronzit/Russian/2-time Oscar nominated director

Diana Maria Rosu/Romania/Creative Producer / AAFFia Creative Director

Sachiko Kondo/Japan/ Animation Designer and Producer, and part-time lecturer of Joshi Art University

Pavel Horáček/Czech/Programme Director, Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films

Jayne Pilling/UK/Animation Specialist, Curator Historian, Teacher, Writer

On October 25^th 2021, the “2^nd Final Selection Joint Meeting of the Judging Panel Conveners” was hosted by the executive team of 2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition at Chang Yung-Fa Foundation, and officer of Ministry of Education Ariel Huang 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 Mr. Kevin Yu-Jui Chou, the design director of KEV Design Studio and Ms. Peggy Wung, the Co-founder of Jin Tang Culture Co., Ltd for Product Design Category, Mr. James Chen, the creative director of Magic Creative Design and Ms. Vivi Liou, the founder and design director of Leaf Design for Visual Design Category, and Mr. Chun-Chieh Lien, the founder of dot2dot and Ms. Chishan Sandra Liu, the head of production at HTC VIVE ORIGINALS for Digital Animation Category to confirm the final winning works which includes Gold, Silver, Bronze and Honorable Mention, Environmental Sustainability Award and International Design Association Awards.

In the joint meeting of the judging panel conveners, reflecting back to the international jury panel, including 18 foreign designers in Taiwan during the preliminary selection and 39 foreign jurors participating online final selection, it definitely shows the public credibility of Taiwan International Student Design Competition.

Many thanks to the officer of Ministry of Education Ariel Huang 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.

Live Scene of Judging Panel Conveners Meeting 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 winners of the 2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition, one of the world’s largest design competition for students, organized by the Ministry of Education, have just been announced. The theme of this year’s competition was Regenerate. It emphasizes forming bridges between the past and the future, while at the same time discarding staleness and being innovative; changing how we look at things and thereby opening our minds to creative new approaches.

The design competition attracted 21,901 entries by students at design schools around the world. From these, the panel of judges first selected 981 semi-finalists and then selected 76 outstanding design entries to receive awards.

The 76 awards comprise more than fifty sponsored by the Ministry of Education, namely the Grand Prix; and a gold, a silver, three bronze prizes, and 12 honorable mentions in each of the three categories: Product Design, Visual Design, and Digital Animation. There are also 22 International Design Association Special Prizes, co-sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation and by the Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation, and two Environmental Sustainability Awards, sponsored by the TPCA Environment Foundation.

The extremely creative and innovative designs of Taiwanese students did very well in this year’s competition. Entries by Taiwanese students won 32 of the 76 awards available, including the Grand Prix, as well as awards in the Product Design, Visual Design, and Digital Animation categories, and two Specified Special Awards. This clearly demonstrates that the vibrant work of Taiwan’s design students is at an international level.

This year’s Grand Prix, together with a monetary prize of NTD$ 400,000 was awarded to Wu Yu-Hsin from Shih Chien University, for the entry Inflatable Stretcher. The gold prizes for each of the three categories were awarded to similarly impressive entries: to Lin Ya-Zhu from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, for Re-pulp in the Product Design category; to Wei You-Lin from Fu Jen Catholic University, for All love is equal, in the Visual Design category; and to Marika Tamura, a student at Ringling College of Art and Design, in Florida in the US, for Final Deathtination, in the Digital Animation category.

The two Environmental Sustainability Awards were awarded to Hsu Hui-Ying, Chiu Shih-Hsuan, and Chen Xiang-Yun from National Taipei University of Education for their entry OWR, and to Chang Chia-Yu, Lo Ching-Yi and Cheng Ting-En from National Taipei University of Business for their entry Taiwan100 -100 Changes About Taiwan.

The complete list of all the award -winners in the 2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition is now on the competition’s official website. (www.tisdc.org).

The award ceremony and an exhibition of the award-winning works will be held on December 3, 2021 at the Rose Historic Site -Tsai Jui-yueh Dance Institute. The address is: No. 10, Lane. 48, Section 2 Zhongshan North Road. Zhongshan District, Taipei. The award-winning works will also be exhibited at the National Library of Public Information in Taichung, from December 7 to December 16. The address is: No. 100 Wuquan South Road. South District, Taichung. The public is warmly invited to visit both exhibitions.

Grand Prix

Gold Prize of Product Design Category

Gold Prize of Visual Design Category

Gold Prize of Digital Animation Category

The second International Design Masters Lecture Series was held online and streamed live on both TISDC’s official YouTube channel and Facebook, allowing design lovers to join us whichever way! Starting out with the 17 goals of the SDGs along with the continuation of this year’s theme, we’ve invited three professional designers as our lecturers, including Mr. Akio Ogawa from Japan, Professor Robert Engler from Switzerland, and Mr. Kevin Yang from Taiwan. The second International Design Masters Lecture Series started with Associate Project Director Mr. Fang’s welcome speech followed by the address from Mr. Lai, the CEO of TPCF (sponsor of this year’s Environmental Sustainability Award).

First off, Mr. Akio Ogawa shared the importance of logo design as well as the whole concept throughout his lecture: “COP10 and Aichi SDGs Environmental Mark Concept & Design Process. Braille misprint reuse design process.” Strong identifiable logo designs carry the core essentials of groups or businesses which then conveys their ideals to the public. Also, he mentioned his participation in SDGs related international conferences and events, including logo designs and the development of identity systems (e.g., The State of the World’s Children 2005, The 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity 2015). Mr. Akio Ogawa’s lecture revolves around the process of logo designing and concept conveyance. We believe that this lecture can inspire the younger generation to expand their knowledge in the logo design field.

Secondly, Mr. Kevin Yang, the Taiwanese CEO of 5% Design Action, shared his own experience and understanding towards design throughout his lecture: Innovative Design Thinking for Better Society. He started the lecture by asking all of us whether design is able to guide us towards the future and provide a sustainable innovative society. He believes the answer is a hard yes. The word “design” can not only solve problems but also create its own value to cope with the drastic changes to our contemplation towards society. For instance, the number of food delivery platforms have increased throughout these two years contributing to tons of trash and waste. The purpose of design is highly connected with the rapid speed of evolution. Mr. Kevin Yang founded 5% Design Action to collect the core elements of all sorts of problems and allow the public to quickly understand these issues through visualized design interfaces.

Last but not least, the famous Swiss director, Professor Robert Engler, shared the relationship between human activities and animation through his lecture: “Animation as a Social Tool.” He mentioned that movie animation is a tool to entertain people or a media to convey messages to the public. Animations in advertisements convey information by attracting people’s attention. Animation can also be seen as a teaching tool, a book of wonders, or an opportunity to renovate our society. Professor Robert Engler also shared his experience in leading a special workshop for handicapped students. Animation was a whole new challenge for them and Professor Robert Engler managed to help them walk out of their darkest times. He believes the process of creating the animation is way more important than the results.

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!

Lecture I : COP10 and Aichi SDGs Environmental Mark Concept & Design Process. Braille misprint reuse design process

Lecture ll: Innovative Design Thinking for Better Society

Lecture lll: Animation as a Social Tool

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, 2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition held the 5th New Asia Design Workshop online at Asia University on the 30th and 31st of October, 2021. Three prestigious international designers including Mr. Omijika MAME from Japan, Mr. Janaka Rajapakse from Sri Lanka, and Mr. Johann Geiger from Germany were invited to be the instructors of the workshop.

This year’s workshop theme includes both SDGs and the continuance of 2021TISDC’s theme: “Regenerate – building upon the foundation of the past and adopting a new perspective to forge a path into the future and give rise to a new paradigm.” The three international designers utilized their own unique experiences to lead and inspire the students to observe and contemplate from various perspectives which would greatly help with the students’ designs, thus stimulating their creative energy!

The online workshop was held through video conferencing which allowed many students to have the opportunity to participate in this event. Not only does this event promote international exchange, but also provides a whole new platform and method for students that love design to have the opportunity to learn from the international designers in one-on-one mini consulting classes.

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 30 different universities and departments in Taiwan participated in the workshop.

The three lecturers shared different design methods with their own experiences which further on stimulated students’ creative design inspiration. Lots of students gave us positive feedback regarding our two-day workshop. All three lecturers had different teaching styles which brought whole new perspectives to students. Both lecturers and students very much enjoyed our two-day event. Once again, we would like to thank TISDC for this wonderful event and we hope to have the opportunity to participate in this workshop again next year.