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

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

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

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

The Executive of Taiwan International Student Design Competition

Screenshot & Photos of Product Design Category Online Meeting

Screenshot & Photos of Visual Design Category Online Meeting

Screenshot & Photos of Digital Animation Category Online Meeting

 

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

Product Design Category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Visual Design Category

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

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

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

Gianni Tozzi/Italy/CCO International FutureBrand

Pekka Piippo/Finland/Design entrepreneur since 1997

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

Pavel Noga/Czech/Graphic Designer

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

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

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

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

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

 

Digital Animation Category

Chun-Chieh Lien/Taiwan/Founder of dot2dot

Chiao-Chun Su/Taiwan/Director of 23Design

Keith Blackmore/Canada/SPARK Animation Festival / Producer

Panop Koonwat/Thailand/Owner of FUUM Studio, Bangkok

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grand Prix List of Winner

Product Design Category List of Winner

Visual Design Category List of Winner

Digital Animation Category List of Winner 

Brand Specified Special Prize：Environmental Sustainability Award List of Winner

 

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

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

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

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

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

Grand Prix

Gold Prize of Product Design Category

Gold Prize of Visual Design Category

Gold Prize of Digital Animation Category

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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