Organized by the Ministry of Education (Taiwan), sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation, Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation, and TPCA Environment Foundation, and is executed by Asia University. Taiwan International Student Design Competition is now in its fourteenth year. The theme of this year’s competition is “One World”. This year, the Competition attracted 16,749 entries from 867 schools and departments in 59 countries/regions around 6 continents, which is still a high record of submissions received.
The 2022TISDC Preliminary Selection in Taiwan of took place online on August 22nd to August 28th online. 112 experts in design from Taiwan, Germany, Singapore, France, Canada, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, United Kingdom, South Africa, and United States of America were invited to form the jury panels for Product Design Category, Visual Design Category and Digital Animation Category. In the seven days of online Preliminary Selection, 42 jurors from product design category, 42 jurors from visual design category and 28 jurors from digital animation category finished screening all the entries. After the strict and enthusiastic screening and the discussion of joint meeting of judging panel conveners, 587 entries were eventually shortlisted, which included works from Taiwan, India, United States of America, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, China, Singapore, Thailand, Russia, Belarus, Italy, Malaysia, Chile, Macau, Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Mexico, Turkey, Denmark, and Germany. These finalists will pursue the Grand Prix, which is worth NT$400,000, and the other awards in each category in the Final Selection.
Regarding the entries that became the finalists, the conveners of the three categories, including Ms. Peggy Wung, the Co-founder of Jin Tang Culture Co., Ltd and Mr. Sean Lee, the Managing Director of the iF Design Asia Ltd. for Product Design Category, Mr. Jamie Wu, the CEO of Blueprint Design Consultants Co., Ltd. and Ms. Stony Cherng, the Founder & Creative Director of STONY IMAGE CORPORATION for Visual Design Category, and Mr. Chun-Chieh Lien, the founder of dot2dot and Ms. Chiao-Chun Su, the Director of 23Design for Digital Animation Category, all agreed that “One World”, the theme of this year’s competition, is the concept to respond to “SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals,” which were advocated by the UN. This theme will then serve to remind students worldwide that it is important to look back to what has been created and think outside the box. Students use their design to resolve global sustainable development issues and thus amply fulfill their responsibilities as global citizens. Thus, jurors saw many participants demonstrate the relationship between humans and humans with environment in their selected works. This indicated that young participants did pay attention to this international social issue and tried to express their thoughts and find a way to solve problems in their entries, which impressed the jurors a lot.
The shortlist will be announced and posted on the official website of 2022TISDC in the next two weeks. Following the Preliminary Selection in Taiwan, 2022TISDC is going to hold the Online Final Selection from September 26th to October 21st. 7 domestic and 38 international designers will form the jury panels to demonstrate the diversity and credibility of TISDC and announce the winners of this year’s competition.
To know more about 2022TISDC, please visit https://www.tisdc.org/en.
Caption : Group Photo Taken with Ministry of Education, Jury Panel and Executive of 2022TISDC
