The 2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) is organized by the Ministry of Education, and sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation and the Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation. The award ceremony will be held on December 3, 2021 at the Tsai Jui-yueh Dance Research Institute in Taipei. This year, the TISDC has attracted up to 21,901 entries by statistics of 59 countries/regions, and 970 college departments. After going through a rigorous preliminary and final selection, a total of 76 works stood out from all the participants. Among these winning works, 32 works are from students in Taiwan. Furthermore, the Gold Prizes in the two categories of Product Design and Visual Design are also from Taiwan and won the highest honor of the “Grand Prix”. This clearly demonstrates that students in Taiwan are not only equipped with abundant design energy, but also have the capacity to compete at an international-level.

This year marks the 14^th year of the TISDC. For the fourth consecutive year, the competition has received more than 20,000 entries and continues to break records. TISDC is now an international competition, in which its popularity and credibility are recognized by the global design society. These tremendous results are rooted in years of accumulating efforts in promoting design education in Taiwan.

The theme of this year was “Regenerate”, which connected with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promoted by the United Nations. Students are encouraged to solve related issues using the power of design. Through these works, connections between people, and those between people and environment, are demonstrated as well as reflected in order to carry out the responsibility of being a world citizen.

The most high-profile Grand Prix this year was awarded to Inflatable Stretcher by Yu Hsin Wu from Shih Chien University. Combining the topics of Good Health and Well-Being in the SDGs, it integrates a first aid kit, a first aid instruction manual, and a mat that enables instant inflation within 60 seconds. A compact and portable first aid device, which can overcome terrains is thus created. In addition, the design itself is highly feasible and much favored by juries, thus winning the Grand Prix as well as NT$ 400,000.

The Gold Prize winner in the ‘Product Design’ was Re-pulp by Ya Zhu Lin from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Re-pulp produces eco friendly shoes by using pulp made from recycled boxes to solve Tungiasis, a disease African children tend to acquire when walking barefoot on sand. This work is full of humanitarian spirit and the concept of circular economy. Re-pulp is also a highly feasible design and it coincides with the topic of Good Health and Well-Being which is why it’s recognized by the international juries.

The Gold Prize winner in the ‘Visual Design’ was All Love is Equal by You Lin Wei from Fu Jen Catholic University. Using shapes of people hugging together, the work constructs the Chinese characters for homosexual, heterosexual, and bisexual. Its powerful red and black colors bring a great visual effect and conceptual impact to viewers. In addition, the work successfully conveys the spirit of Gender Equality in SDGs.

The Gold Prize winner in the ‘Digital Animation’ was Final Deathtination by Marika Tamura from Ringling College of Art and Design. It boldly takes on the issue of suicide and uses a humorous manner to explore this serious topic. This work strikes a perfect balance between story concept, character performance, artistic style, and editing method. Final Deathtination is a mature work with a high degree of completion. It’s indeed an award winning piece that has won over the juries’ hearts. It also echoes perfectly with the topics of Good Health and Well-Being.

The full winner list can be found on the TISDC website (www.tisdc.org). The award ceremony and winning works exhibitions will be held on December 3, 2021 at Rose Historic Site-Tsai Jui-yueh Dance Research Institute (No. 10, Ln. 48, Sec. 2, Zhongshan N. Rd. Zhongshan Dist., Taipei City). In addition, in order to enhance awareness of these winning works an exhibition will also be held from 7^th to 16^th of December at Taichung National Library of Public Information (No. 100, Wuquan S. Rd. South Dist., Taichung City). The public is warmly welcomed.

Picture of Winners and Guests

Address by Director Chun-Chang Chu, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education

Address by Szu-Yao Wu Legislator, Congress of Taiwan

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

Address by Mr. Jeter Her, Executive Director of Sayling Wen Cultural and Educational Foundation

Address by Nelson Huang, Director of TPCA Environment Foundation

Director Chun-Chang Chu, Department of Higher Education Present the Grand Prix

The Award Ceremony and Exhibition of the Winning Works

The poster Cyber Violence (Figure 1) was originally awarded with the 2021 Lahti International Poster Triennial Special Award in this year’s TISDC, by the Lahti International Poster Triennial which is held by Lahti Art Museum. However, this award-winning piece was reported for plagiarism in November 2021 for being highly similar to the cover design of The Economist (Figure 2) which was published on June 10th 2017. It is decided by the chair and the juries of the Lahti International Poster Triennial that the special award and the qualification of the Cyber Violence are being revoked. The designer of the Growth, a poster that came in second this year, withdrew from the competition due to personal reasons. The organizer hereby announces that the 2021 Lahti International Poster Triennial Special Award will remain vacant.

Figure 1: Cyber Violence    

Figure 2: Cover published in 2017/06/10

Since this year’s selections were all conducted online. In order to ensure fairness and justice, TISDC adjusted the number of juries in the two phases. In addition, to increase international competitiveness, the percentage of international juries is also increased in both preliminary and final selections. 80 juries were invited for the preliminary selection and 45 juries from 27 countries/areas were invited for the final selection. We’ve also invited several international juries to record videos to provide valuable opinions to our students and encourage all the students. Thank you juries. We hope that young students from all over the world continue to exert their influence, stay competitive, and realize their creativity.

Please see the video for the International Jury’s Comments :

 

The theme of the 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition is revealed. The annual theme of 2022 is: One World.

 

 

 “The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.”–Rabindranath Tagore.

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”–J.K. Rowling.

 

One World 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.  

Taiwan International Student Design Competition would like to show its immense gratitude to Creative Economy Agency (CEA), one of TISDC’s international collaborators, for its continued support and assistance. With CEA’s assistance, TISDC was able to participate in Bangkok Design Week 2022.

Bangkok Design Week, due to the pandemic, held most of its activity online this year, and TISDC was very honored to participate in 2022, giving a short introduction and guide to the competition.

 

On February 10th, the associate project director of TISDC- Miira Lin, gave an online talk to students, professors and teachers all over the world which there were around 30 audiences online and even more joined during the talk. It was a great experience for TISDC to interact with different students and teachers around the world.

Special thanks to Creative Economy Agency (CEA) and we hope to see many more works from around the world again!

 

 

The promotional campaign of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) is now starting!

The project manager of TISDC was appreciated to be invited to promote this year’s competition at Cheng Shiu University of Department of Visual Communication Design & Department of Digital Multimedia Design on March 8th. Around 210 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. The United Nations hopes to remind global citizens to pay attention to the 17 issues that includes NO POVERTY, ZERO HUNGER, GENDER EQUALITY, SUSTAINABLE CITES AND COMMUNITIES and so on. Therefore, TISDC hopes the students can put their effort to the universal value of sustainability and unity through diverse and inspiring concept of design. 

The online registration and work submissions of 2022TISDC starts on June 1st, 2022 and will ends on July 15th, 2022. 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 serve as a platform.

Finally, we would like to thank again to teachers for the perfect arrangement and assistance of this event.

Promoting 2022TISDC at Cheng Shiu University (1)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Cheng Shiu University (2)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Cheng Shiu University (3)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Cheng Shiu University (4)

On March 16th, the second leg of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition(TISDC) promotional activities, the project manager of TISDC came to the Chung Yuan Christian University with a delightful mood. There were about 70 teacher and students participated. The project manager introduced the 2022TISDC’s competition method to the participating teachers and students in detail, and shared the achievements of TISDC over the years.

The theme of 2022TISDC is “One World”. We hope students could use design to pursue the universal values of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which proposed by the United Nations. In recent years, TISDC has become an important student competition for design schools around the world. Features such as “No registration Fee and International Design Associations Endorsement” attracting students to use this opportunity to participate and compete with their peers all over the world.

Special thanks to the teachers and students of Chung Yuan Christian University for participance and arrangement. TISDC would also like to give a big thanks to Professor Jieh-Cheng Kuo, Professor Chang-Pu Shih, Professor Jyun-Jie Chang and Professor Der-Wei Wang. TISDC hopes that the students from Chung Yuan Christian University will win big prizes.

 

Caption: Lecture at Chung Yuan Christian University (1) (2) (3) (4)

Caption: Special thanks to the Department of Commercial Design at Chung Yuan Christian University

Organized by Department of Higher Education,Ministry of Education (Taiwan), and executed by Asia University, 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) invited professors and teachers in Taiwan to join 2022 TISDC’s advisory council meeting on 14^th March (Mon.). “One World“, the theme of 2022 TISDC, is pursuing the value of UN’s”SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals”by design. There are three categories for this year: Product Design,Visual Design and Digital Animation. TISDC aims to encourage students who are interested in design from both Taiwan and abroad to join the competition actively.

Special thanks to all the professors and teachers for attending TISDC’s advisory council meeting. The attended representatives are as follows: Yuan-Rong Lee, Dean of College of Creative Design at Asia University, Hsin-Hung Lin, Director of Director of Department at Asia University, Jia-Meng Siao, Deputy head of National Taichung University of Science Technology, Chih-Fu, Wu, Deputy head of Tatung University, Zhen Yan, Deputy head of Ling Tung University, Siao-Zong, Chen, Deputy head of Fu Hsin Trade & Art School, Tung-Jung Sung, Dean of National Taiwan University of Science and Technonolgy, Jui-Che Tu, Dean of National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Chi-Tung Hung, Dean of Ming Chuan University, Feng-Yu Hsu, Dean of Shih Chien University, Shou-Che Wu, Director of Cheng Shiu University, Wen-Ching Su, Chair of National Taiwan Normal University, Amanda Hu, Chair of Hsing Wu University, Kuen-Feng Chen, Chaoyang University of Technology, Chia-Chen Lu, Tunghai University, Sheng-Chuan Chang, Professor of China University of Technology, Jin-Shi Chen, Professor of Tungnan University, Min-Lan, Kang, Professor of National Taichung University of Education, Yu-Long Yang, Professor of Shu-Te University, Zhi-Hong Lin, Chief of National Chang-Hua Senior Hign School of Commerce, Shu-Fen Gao, Chair of Song Shan High School of Commerce and Home Economics, Zi-Ying Chen, Chair of Er Xin High School, Je-Shiang Chen, Shilin High School of Commerce.

Once again, the executive team of TISDC would like to express their appreciation to those who participated in the advisory council meeting with their precious suggestions. Through this promotional campaign, 2022TISDC hopes to attract more teachers and students to participate in the competition and reach the next milestone together.Prof. Apex Lin, the project director of TISDC, indicated that with students’ active participation in TISDC, design field in Taiwan could keep moving forward. 2021 TISDC attracted more than 20,000 entries from 59 countries/regions around the world, which indicated that Taiwan International Student Design Competition has become one of the most remarkable worldwide student design competitions. TISDC thanks iSee Taiwan Foundation, and the Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation for continuing their sponsorship this year. The Brand Specified Special Prize, sponsored by TPCA Environment Foundation (TPCF) will give out one additional special prize selecting to each category. TPCF is responsible for providing their spirits to participants to put into their design works and come out with products with higher and additional value. This way, it would give young designers a stage to show their creativity to the world.

Caption: 2022TISDC Advisory Council Meeting

This time, campus promotional campaign of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) came to the third stop Neng Ren Home Economic And Commercial Vocational High School, The project manager of the Taiwan International Student Design Competition in company with the project manager of International Design Competition, Around 105 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. The United Nations hopes to remind global citizens to pay attention to the 17 issues that includes NO POVERTY, ZERO HUNGER, GENDER EQUALITY, SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES and so on.

 

Therefore, TISDC hopes that students can put effort in the universal value of sustainability and unity through diverse and inspiring concept of design. TISDC encourages students to look back to what has been created and think outside the box through the theme and the direction. Through the sharing of winners’ works,  TISDC hopes to bring different creative inspirations to students, and encourage students to seize the opportunity of this competition. Finally, I would like to thank the teachers and students of Neng Ren Home Economic And Commercial Vocational High School of Applied Sciences for their participation. Looking forward in receiving many entries from students and hope they get good results and win awards in 2022TISDC.

 

Promoting 2022TISDC at Neng Ren Home Economic And Commercial Vocational High School of Technology (1)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Neng Ren Home Economic And Commercial Vocational High School of Technology (2)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Neng Ren Home Economic And Commercial Vocational High School of Technology (3)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Neng Ren Home Economic And Commercial Vocational High School of Technology (4)

On March 22nd, The promotional activities of the 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition went to the National Taipei University of Technology. There were about 55 people on the scene. The theme of 2022TISDC is “One World”. The advancement of science and technology has shortened the distance between people, but while we pursue a better life, we must also consider if it will c harm to the environment.

We hope students could use design to pursue the universal values of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which was proposed by the United Nations. TISDC also hopes that students are encouraged to look back to what has been created and think outside the box through the theme and the direction. Through the sharing of winners’  works, TISDC hopes to bring different creative inspirations to students, and encourage students to seize the opportunity of this competition. Finally, we would like to thank the teachers and students of National Taipei University of Technology for their participation.

Caption: Lecture at National Taipei University of Technology (1)

Caption: Lecture at National Taipei University of Technology (2)

Caption: Lecture at National Taipei University of Technology (3)

Caption: Special thanks to the Department of Architecture.

This time, campus promotional campaign of 2022 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) came to the Fifth stop Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, The project manager of the Taiwan International Student Design Competition in company with the project manager of International Design Competition, Around 31 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. The United Nations hopes to remind global citizens to pay attention to the 17 issues that includes NO POVERTY, ZERO HUNGER, GENDER EQUALITY, SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES and so on.

 

Therefore, TISDC hopes that students can put effort in the universal value of sustainability and unity through diverse and inspiring concept of design. TISDC encourages students to look back to what has been created and think outside the box through the theme and the direction. Through the sharing of winners’ works,  TISDC hopes to bring different creative inspirations to students, and encourage students to seize the opportunity of this competition. Finally, I would like to thank the teachers and students of Lunghwa University of Science and Technology of Applied Sciences for their participation. Looking forward in receiving many entries from students and hope they get good results and win awards in 2022TISDC.

 

Promoting 2022TISDC at Lunghwa University of Science and Technology of Technology (1)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Lunghwa University of Science and Technology of Technology (2)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Lunghwa University of Science and Technology of Technology (3)

Promoting 2022TISDC at Lunghwa University of Science and Technology of Technology (4)

This year, TISDC went to Taiwan Normal University 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 30 people attended the promotional campaign. The project manager of TISDC strongly encouraged students to participate actively, strive for higher prize money and most importantly to participate in international competitions like TISDC. Also, TISDC hopes that students can accumulate design competition experiences, design energy, and use this opportunity to learn from other young designers around the world. A big thank you to Taiwan Normal University Department of Design Prof. Wen Ching Su and Prof. Manfred Wang for their support and assistance. Also, thank you to all the students who participated today. TISDC looks forward to seeing students shine on the world stage.

 

Caption: Lecture at Taiwan Normal University (1) 

Caption: Lecture at Taiwan Normal University (2)

Caption: Lecture at Taiwan Normal University (3)