Gold Prize of Service Design Category 

Work Number : S72019483

Work Title : Game Creatures-A Service for Teachers to Teach Kids Designing Games

Designers : Chien-Chih Hsu, Hou-Jun Chen, and Hsuan-Tzu Shen

Location of School : Taiwan

Name of School : National Cheng Kung University 

Concept of the Work : Game Creatures is a system that allows teachers to teach children from the age of 9-12 how to design a game. This system allows children to create group games (tag, hide and seek, red light, green light etc.) through storytelling, which is Game Creatures’ own design method. With the assistance of the customized toolkits, game and teacher community, Game Creatures ensure that children will be able to develop creativity, design thinking, teamwork, and active-learning from a young age.

Gold Prize of Service Design Category: Game Creatures-A Service for Teachers to Teach Kids Designing Games

Gold Prize of Digital Animation Category

Work Number : D71616883

Work Title : A Mess

Designers : Jia-Yu Guo, Nien-Chen Wu, Ling Po, Tzu-Yi Liao, Ki-Lung Lee

Location of School : Taiwan

Name of School : Chaoyang University of Technology

Concept of the Work : In the world, where people value their hair styles more than facial appearances,comes a girl with a tousled hair, who has a hidden story of her past that has never been known to anyone. However, an accident happened. Memories flooded over her mind, forcing her to face up to those difficulties and unpleasantness occurred in her childhood…

Gold Prize of Digital Animation Category: A Mess

Gold Prize of Product Design Category

Work Number : P62206034

Work Title : Safe Cloak

Designer : Jie-Yu Gu

Location of School : Taiwan

Name of School : Shih Chien University 

Concept of the Work : Female refugees at the borders of other countries may encounter sexual violence when using open-air public toilets. Made with waterproof fabrics and soft materials, the weather-resistant toilet cloak and the bag enable the women to use toilet safely , choosing comfortable places to carry out their feces.

Gold Prize of Product Design Category : Safe Cloak

Gold Prize of Visual Design Category 

Work Number : V71414814

Work Title : Under 1.0

Designer : Xiang-Xin Wan

Location of School : Taiwan

Name of School : National Taiwan University of Arts

Concept of the Work : This is a poster design that combines endangered species with eye charts. It uses the idea of diminishing vision to express the threat towards these species. There are twelve eye charts in total, each representing a different country, comprising 800+ animal species. The eye charts were also illustrated in styles uniquely representative of each country, such as the dot painting of Australian indigenous peoples, and the totems of Mexico’s Maya civilization.

Gold Prize of Visual Design Category : Under 1.0

Grand Prix

Work Number : D62005602

Work Title : A Gong

Designers : Yen-Chen Liu, Ellis Kayin Chan, Zozo Jhen, Tena Galovic, and Marine Varguy

Location of School : France

Name of School : Gobelins School of Image

Concept of the Work : Through out the prescribed, vivid and ritualised Taiwanese funeral, the initial emotion of losing significant one is no longer expressible straightforwardly. After the observation in ceremony, we want to express a pure sentiment through an innocent 7-year old kid who has not been experienced or taught to any belief about death, how can he expresses it on his own way.

Grand Prix – A Gong (Trailer) 

Grand Prix: A Gong

The second-stage work submission for finalists of 2018 Taiwan International Student Design Competition was officially closed on October 9, 2018.

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

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Organized by Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education (Taiwan), and executed by Asia University, 2019 Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) is in its 12th year now. On 20^th February (Wed.), the executive team invited professors and teachers in Taiwan to join 2019 TISDC’s advisory council meeting. The theme of 2019 TISDC is “Empathy” and four categories, Product Design, Visual Design, Digital Animation and Brand Specified, are included. TISDC aims to encourage students who are interested in design from both Taiwan and abroad to join the competition actively.

The attended representatives are as follows: Prof. Wu Chih-Fu, Vice President of Tatung University, Prof. Wu Shang-Hua, Dean of Design College at Hsing Wu University, Prof. Hung Chi-Tung, Dean of School of Design at Ming Chuan University, Prof. Chang Shei-Hsi, Dean of College of Creative Media at Kun Shan University, Prof. Li Yuan-Rong, Executive Dean of College of Creative Design at Asia University, Prof. Chang Lu-Hsin , Chairman of Department of Visual Communication Design at Ling Tung University, Prof. Fang Hsiao-Wei, Chairman of Department of Game and Toy Design at Tungfang Design University, Prof. Wu Shou-Che, Chairman of Department of Modern Living and Creative Design at Cheng Shiu Univeristy, Prof. Chiang Zun-Hwa, Chairman of Department of Industrial Design at Ming Chi University of Technology, Prof. Lee Li-Hui, Chairman of Department of Industrial Design at Tunghai University, Prof. Chen Chun-Ti, Chairman of Department of Arts and Design at National Taipei University of Education, Prof. Chang Sheng-Chuan, Lecturer of Department of Visual Communication and Design at China University of Technology, Prof. Jhu Wun-Hao, Associate Professor of Department of Multimedia Design at National Formosa University, Prof. Chen Yan-Ting, Associate Professor of Department of Architecture at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Prof. Chang Chien-Feng, Associate Professor of Department of Visual Communication Design at Shu-Te University, Prof. Kang Ming-Lan, Associate Professor of Department of Fine Arts at National Taichung University of Education, Prof. Lin Wei-yu, Associate Professor of Department of Visual Design at National Kaohsiung Normal University, Teacher Chen Shiau-Tzung, Director of Internship Administration Office at Fu-Hisn Trade and Arts School, and Teacher Hung Jing-Huei of Advertising Design Division at Taibei High School.

Prof. Apex Lin, the project director of TISDC, indicated that with students’ active participation in TISDC, design field in Taiwan could keep moving forward. 2018 TISDC attracted more than 20,000 entries from 66 countries/regions around the world, which indicated that Taiwan International Student Design Competition has become one of the most remarkable worldwide student design competitions. Regarding the New Southbound Policy of the Taiwan government, this year TISDC will continue encouraging not only students from Taiwan but also students from other countries, especial those in South Asia, to participate in the competition. The Brand Specified Category, sponsored by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), is the newly established one of this year. In the advisory council meeting, the associate project director, Miira Lin, mentioned that ITRI will provide not only prize money but also opportunities for internship to several winners of this year in order to put participants’ creative ideas and designs into practice, which definitely will motivate more students to join the competition.  

TISDC really appreciated all the representatives’ attendance in the advisory council meeting. With their support, we hope TISDC could be widely promoted in schools around Taiwan and could encourage more professors, teachers, and students to participate in this year’s competition, creating a new milestone for 2019 TISDC.

Group photo of representatives from design schools and TISDC executive team

Prof. Apex Lin, the project director of TISDC, gave the welcome remarks.

Prof. Miira Lin, the associate project director of TISDC, introduced the competition.

Prof. Wu Chih-Fu, Vice President of Tatung University gave TISDC valuable suggestions.

Prof. Chang Shei-Hsi, Dean of College of Creative Media at Kun Shan University, gave TISDC valuable suggestions.

Teacher Chen Shiau-Tzung, Director of Internship Administration Office at Fu-Hisn Trade and Arts School gave TISDC valuable suggestions.

On 11^th March, Thursday, the associate project director of TISDC, Prof. Shin-Fu Lee led the promotional campaign at the Department of Industrial Design of Ming Chi University of Technology. 50 teachers and students enthusiastically participated in the campaign.

Targeting on the theme of this year’s competition, “Empathy,” Prof. Lee pointed out some detailed information about the competition. Special emphasis was also put on this year’s Brand Specified Category, sponsored by Industrial Technology Research Institute, which will provide students with the opportunities to cooperate with the industry.

During the campaign, Prof. Lee also congratulated the group of students from the Department of Industrial Design of Ming Chi University of Technology on their winning work, which was awarded Good Design Australia Special Award in last year’s competition. He encouraged students not to worry about whether their works are excellent enough or not. Just focus on sharpening their professional skills, broadening their horizons, increasing their ability to predict and perceive, and seizing every chance to accumulate their energy in design, to have exchanges with others and learn from others.

Special thanks were again given to Director Zun-Hwa Chiang of Ming Chi University of Technology for rounding off this promotional campaign with strong support and great arrangement.

Caption: The warm crowd of teachers and students at Department of Industrial Design of Ming Chi University of Technology

Caption: Many thanks to Director Zun-Hwa Chiang and Professor Wan-Ying Lai at Department of Industrial Design for the strong support

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at Ming Chi University of Technology

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at Ming Chi University of Technology

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at Ming Chi University of Technology

The executive team of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) visited two universities in Malaysia on 12th March 2019 to promote this year’s competition. One is Jakarta Institute of Arts, and the other is Tarumanagara University. These two promotional campaigns attracted about 320 teachers and students to join us.

Targeting on the theme of this year’s competition, “Empathy,” the associate project directors of TISDC, Prof. Melvyn Liao and Lecturer Miira Lin not only gave an introduction of the competition but also shared some of the winning works with the students. By doing strategic analysis of these excellent works that TISDC received in previous years, Prof. Liao and Lecturer Lin hoped the diverse cultural backgrounds of participants could broaden students’ horizons, lead them to think from different perspectives and evoke creative ideas. The difference is what causes the design to grow. Thus, Prof. Liao and Lecturer Lin encouraged students to accumulate their energy in design in their daily life, hoping this year more outstanding Indonesian students would join TISDC.

Special thanks to the two vice deans of Jakarta Institute of Arts, Mr. Yudi Amboroand and Mr. Adityayoga, and Tarumanagara University ‘s chairman of Department of Visual Communication Design, Mr. Edy Chandra, and secretary of Department of Visual Communication Design, Ms. Mariati, for helping TISDC organize the promotional campaigns. Only with their strong support could the executive team of TISDC have the opportunity to promote the competition at the local schools in Indonesia. The executive team of TISDC would like to encourage all the students in Indonesia to follow the updates of the competition on the official website of TISDC so that they wouldn’t miss the opportunity to link themselves with the world.

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at Jakarta Institute of Arts

Caption: Special thanks to the vice dean of Jakarta Institute of Arts, Mr. Yudi Amboro, for organizing the promotional campaign

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at Tarumanagara University

Caption: Many thanks to the chairman of the Department of Visual Communication Design at Tarumanagara University, Mr. Edy Chandra, for supporting and assisting TISDC

From 10^th to 14^th March 2019, the associate project directors of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), Prof. Melvyn Liao and Lecturer Miira Lin, led the executive team of the competition to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, to promote TISDC for the very first time. The five-day promotional campaign has rounded off. Around 650 students and teachers from design colleges and publics from Jakarta attended the promotional campaign.

With this opportunity to visit design schools in Indonesia, TISDC also held a one-week (11^th to 17^th March, 2019) roving exhibition of 2018 TISDC’s winning works at the famous complex space, Kopi Kalyan. Special thanks are given to Ms. Tri Anugrah, the associate of the Design Alliance Asia (tDA Asia) and also the lecturer of TISDC’s New Asia Design Workshop last year, and her studio partner, Ms. Rina Renville for assisting us organize the roving exhibition. TISDC hoped this young designer’s frequently-visited place could create more opportunities for design exchanges and let students in Indonesia accumulate more energy in design and learn from other international students’ excellent works. Many thanks also go to the professors and teachers of the design schools that the executive team visited this time in Indonesia for helping us spread the information of the roving exhibition, which resulted in many enthusiastic visitors to the exhibition.

Caption: TISDC’s exhibition at Kopi Kalyan

Caption: Many thanks to Ms. Tri Anugrah and her partner, Ms. Rina Renville for assistance

On 20^th March, the associate project director of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, led the campus promotional campaign at Kun Shan University. Around 120 teachers and students participated in the campaign. Glad to exchange with students in Kun Shan University, also to promote TISDC competition of this year. Prof. Chen mentioned that it’s TISDC’s great pleasure to have exchange with students at Kun Shan University and share the information about this year’s competition with them.

Special thanks were given to Dean of College of Creative Media at Kun Shan University, Prof. Shei-Hsi Chang and Director of Department of Visual Communication Design, Prof. Chih-Wei Huang, for giving us this gold opportunity to promote TISDC at Kun Shan University and helping us arrange this promotional campaign. Targeting on the theme of this year’s competition, “Empathy,” Prof. Chen not only pointed out some detailed information about the competition but shared some of the winning works of last year’s competition in order to inspire the students to think in a more creative way and raise their willingness to join the competition. Prof. Chen also gave several examples of how to integrate this year’s theme, “Empathy,” with design in order to give students more directions to create their own works and encourage them to participate actively. TISDC is a platform that provides students with the chance to let the world see their excellent works and to broaden young designers’ horizons. This year, we expect to see more excellent works from Kun Shan University to participate in TISDC.

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at Kun Shan University

Caption: Thanks to Dean of College of Creative Media, Prof. Shei-Hsi Chang, and Director of Department of Visual Communication Design, Prof. Chih-Wei Huang, for the arrangement and assistance

On 20^th March 2019, the project manager of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), Ms. Jenny Huang, led the campus promotional campaign of TISDC at National Nantou Senior High School with the project manager of Sprout Project of International Design Competition (IDC). Around 100 teachers and students participated in the campaign. It’s our great pleasure to have exchange with students at National Nantou Senior High School and share the information of this year’s competition with them.

Targeting on the theme of this year’s competition, “Empathy,” Project manager Ms. Huang not only pointed out some detailed information about the competition but also shared some of the winning students’ experiences of participating in this competition. Special emphasis was also put on this year’s ITRI Innovation Award of Brand Specified Category, sponsored by Industrial Technology Research Institute, which will provide winning students of this category with both the rewards and the opportunities to cooperate with the best research and development team of the industry.

We also gave our great appreciation to Teacher Jia-Jyun Go of National Nantou Senior High School for helping us arrange this promotional campaign and lending her support to TISDC.

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at National Nantou Senior High School

Thanks Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) for introducing Taiwan International Student Design Competition to design schools in Thailand. With TCDC’s recommendation, TISDC gained the precious opportunities to have the promotional event, led by Prof. Apex Lin, the project director of TISDC, at Chulalongkorn University and Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, attracting around 50 teachers and students to join the promotional event and know more about the competition.

The project director of TISDC, Prof. Apex Lin Pang-Soong mentioned that “Empathy” is the theme of this year’s competition and it’s a concept rooted in affective commitment. “Empathy” plays an important role in the relationships between people and between human and the environment. “Empathy” forces people to face problems existing in our daily life and try to come out with ways to solve them. Thus, Prof. Apex Lin encouraged students who would like to participate in this year’s competition to think and design from different perspectives and keep accumulating their design energy. TISDC looks forward to evoking young designers’ infinite possibility and their active participation in this year’s competition.

TISDC really appreciates Mr. Apisit Laistrooglai’s continued support and assistance. As the consultant of TCDC, Mr. Apisit Laistrooglai provided TISDC’s executive team with the chance to promote the competition in the most important design center and get connected with design in Thailand. Special thanks also go to Ms. Nuttawee Tangnoi, Mr. Doonyapol Srichan, and Mr. Pichit Virankabutra, the director of Creative Space of TCDC, for attending the promotional event and sharing their experiences of being the jurors in TISDC’s preliminary selection and final selection last year. Most importantly, TISDC expresses its sincere thanks to the representatives of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand, Mr. Kuan-Fu Chen, the director of Culture Division, and Ms. Tzu-Yi Hung, the secretary of Education Division for visiting the executive team. Last but not least, TISDC offers its thanks to Lecturer Ms. Soamshine Boonyan from Chulalongkorn University and Lecturer Mr. Noppadon Sangwalpetch from Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University for bringing their students to join the promotional event together. TISDC cordially encourages students in Thailand to follow the news on TISDC’s official website and make good use of this competition as a platform to connect with the world.

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at Thailand Creative & Design Center

Caption: Special thanks to Mr. Doonyapol Srichan for attending the promotional event and sharing experiences of being the juror in TISDC’s preliminary selection last year

Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) gave special thanks to Thailand Creative & Design Center (TCDC), TISDC’s worldwide partner, for its assistance. Only with its help could TISDC hold the roving exhibition of students’ winning works in different cities of Thailand. “Design Week” is always an important platform for designers to brainstorm and interact with each other. Starting from having a roving exhibition in Chiang Mai Design Week 2018 (8^th to 16^th December, 2018) at the end of last year, TISDC has actively participated in this kind of international events to display students’ winning works, hoping to show the world not only young designers’ talent and energy in design but also the great emphasis Taiwan puts on design education.

In recent years, Thailand has been full of design energy. This year, the yearly Bangkok Design Week is held from 26^th January to 3^rd February, 2019. It’s TISDC’s great honor to be sincerely invited by Mr. Apisit Laistrooglai, the consultant of TCDC, to be part of the design week. In such a significant event, the project director of TISDC, Prof. Apex Lin Pang Soong, led the executive team to hold a roving exhibition of students’ winning works from 2008 to 2018, which greatly enhanced Taiwan’s international visibility.

Caption: TISDC’s roving exhibition in Bangkok Design Week at TCDC’s Grand Postal Building

Caption: Special thanks to Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand’s director of culture division, Mr. Kuan-Fu Chen, and secretary of education division, Ms. Tzu-Yi Hung, for visiting TISDC’s roving exhibition

From 2008, Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC) is now in its twelfth year. TISDC gets lots of enthusiastic responses and the number of participating entries reaches a new record every year. TISDC is a remarkable competition in design education and has become one of the largest student design competitions in the world. TISDC Encourages international young student designers to show the world their creativity and design power.

The executive team of TISDC visited Multimedia Nusantara University and Binus Northumbria School of Design on 13th, March, 2019 to promote the theme of this year’s competition, “Empathy,” and shared the winning works of previous years with the attendees. The two promotional campaigns attracted about 80 teachers and students to join us. The associate project director of TISDC, Lecturer Miira Lin, said that “Empathy” is a concept rooted in affective commitment. This kind of issue exists not only among people but also in relationships between humans and environment and between humans and animals. “Empathy” plays a vital role in forcing us to face problems and figure out solutions. Thus, students who would like to participate in the competition are encouraged to think from diverse perspectives and make good use of their creativity.

The executive team of TISDC gave their special thanks to the vice president of Multimedia Nusantara University, Dr. Muliawati G. Siswanto, the chairman, Mr. Moh. Rizaldi, the vice chairman, Mr. Gideon K. Frederick, and the lecturers, Mr. Cahya Daulay and Mr. Tolentino, of Department of Visual Communication Design and the chairman of Visual New Media at Binus Northumbria School of Design, Mrs. Novi Dila Kana. Only with their strong support could the executive team of TISDC have the opportunity to promote the competition at the local schools in Indonesia. The executive team of TISDC would like to encourage all the students in Indonesia to follow the updates of the competition on the official website of TISDC so that they wouldn’t miss the opportunity to link themselves to the world.

Caption: Promoting TISDC at Multimedia Nusantara University

Caption: Many thanks to the chairman of the Department of Visual Communication Design at Multimedia Nusantara University, Mr. Moh. Rizaldi, for his assistance and support

Caption: Thanks to the vice president of Multimedia Nusantara University, Dr. Muliawati G. Siswanto for presenting TISDC a medal of appreciation

Caption: Promoting at Binus Northumbria School of Design

Caption: Thanks to the chairman of Department of Visual New Media at Binus Northumbria School of Design, Mrs. Novi Dila Kana, for helping us organize the promotional campaign.

On 22^nd March, the project director of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), Prof. Apex Lin Pang-Soong and the associate project director, Prof. Shin-Fu Lee, led TISDC’s promotional campaign at the library of Jiangxia University in Fujian area. Around 400 participants, including teachers and students from Fuzhou University, Fujian University of Technology, Minjiang University, Yango University, etc., attended the promotional campaign.

The project director of TISDC, Prof. Apex Lin mentioned that “Empathy” is the theme of this year’s competition and it’s a concept rooted in affective commitment. “Empathy” plays an important role in the relationships between people and between human and the environment and it forces people to face problems existing in our daily life and try to come out with ways to solve them. Thus, students who would like to participate in this year’s competition were encouraged to think and design from diverse perspectives. Prof. Lin also encouraged students to keep accumulating their design energy and get ready for the competition. TISDC looks forward to students’ active participation and hopes to evoke young designers’ infinite possibility.

Prof. Lee also made good use of this opportunity to share previous prize-winning works with the attendees in the promotional campaign and analyzed these works from different creative perspectives and ways of expression, hoping to encourage students to participate actively in this year’s competition.

The campaign had rounded off and special thanks were given to teachers and students who participated in the campaign and those who helped TISDC for organizing everything. Hope to hear good news from students from Fujian area this year!

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at the library of Jiangxia University in Fujian area

On 21^st March 2019, the project director of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), Prof. Apex Lin, and the associate project director, Prof. Shin-Fu Lee, led the promotional campaign at the concert hall of Xiamen University in Fujian area. The attendees were from ten universities in Fujian area, including Xiamen University, Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College, Xiamen Academy of Arts and Design, Fuzhou University, Huaqiao University, Huaxia University, Xiamen University of Technology, Jimei University, Xiamen Xingcai Vocational & Technical College, Xiamen Institute of Software Technology, and Shantou University. Around 400 teachers and students participated in the promotional campaign.

The promotional campaign was hosted by Prof. Yuec-Hun Qi of the Department of Design at Art College of Xiamen University and Prof. Apex Lin and Prof. Shin-Fu Lee were the invited guests. The project director of TISDC, Prof. Apex Lin Pang-Soong mentioned that “Empathy” is the theme of this year’s competition and it’s a concept rooted in affective commitment. Therefore, for students who would like to participate in this year’s competition, they are encouraged to think and design from diversified perspectives. In addition to pointing out the detailed information about this year’s competition, Prof. Lin also encouraged students to participate in it actively and keep accumulating their design energy, which definitely would evoke young designers’ infinite possibility!

The promotional campaign had rounded off and special thanks were given to all the teachers and students who joined it together. This year, TISDC hopes the number of participating entries from Fujian area could reach a new high again!

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at the concert hall of Xiamen University

On 27^th March, 2019, the project manager of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), Ms. Luby Chen, led the campus promotional campaign of TISDC at National Taichung University of Education (NTCU) with the project manager of the Sprout Project of Design- International Design Competition (IDC). Around 60 teachers and students participated in the campaign. Ms. Chen mentioned that it’s TISDC’s great pleasure to have this opportunity to share the information of this year’s competition with all the attendees and hope to see students of NTCU join this year’s competition actively.

In the promotional campaign, Ms. Chen not only targeted on the theme of this year’s competition, “Empathy,” but also gave some examples of how to integrate the idea of empathy into design as well as shared some of the winning works from previous years’ competition with the attendees, hoping these excellent works that TISDC received before could inspire students and lead them to brainstorm and come out with their own works.

Most importantly, Ms. Chen, on behalf of the executive team of TISDC, gave her special thanks to Prof. Ming-Lan Kang of Department of Fine Art at NTCU for assisting TISDC to organize this promotional campaign, which had rounded off.

Caption: Promoting TISDC at National Taichung University of Education

On 27th March, 2019, the associate project director of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, led a promotional campaign at Cheng Shiu University. Around 200 teachers and students participated in the campaign. Prof. Chen, on behalf of the executive team of TISDC, gave his special thanks to Cheng Shiu University for providing TISDC with such a great opportunity to promote this year’s competition with their students. Prof. Chen also presented his appreciation to Prof. Shou-Che Wu, the chairman of the Department of Modern Living and Creative Design at Cheng Shiu University, for assisting TISDC to organize this promotional campaign.

At the beginning of the promotional campaign, Prof. Chen first shared some of the excellent works that TISDC received before with the attendees by playing the showreel of 2018 TISDC’s winning works. Through this video clip, we hope more people could see these brilliant works and get inspired by them. Then, Prof. Chen targeted on the theme of this year’s competition, “Empathy.” He not only provided many good examples of how to integrate the idea of “Empathy” into design works but also encouraged students to observe, think and design from distinct perspectives. At the end of the promotional campaign, Prof. Chen played the edited video recording of 2018 TISDC’s award ceremony to show everyone what achievement TISDC and all the participated students had reached. At the same time, we look forward to seeing students from Cheng Shiu University stand on the stage to receive this year’s awards.

Caption: Promoting TISDC at Cheng Shiu University

Caption: Special Thanks were Given to Prof. Shou-Che Wu, the chairman of the Department of Modern Living and Creative Design at Cheng Shiu University

On 26^th March, 2019, the project manager of Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), Ms. Luby Chen, led the campus promotional campaign of TISDC at the Department of Arts and Design of National Taipei University of Education (NTUE) with the project manager of the Sprout Project of Design- International Design Competition (IDC). Thanks NTUE for providing us such a great opportunity to promote TISDC with their students. On behalf of the executive team of TISDC, Ms. Chen also presented her special thanks to Prof. Thomas Chiang Blair for his assistance and support for the promotional campaign.  

During the promotional campaign, Ms. Chen not only targeted on the theme of this year’s competition, “Empathy,” but also shared some of the winning works from previous years’ competition with the attendees, hoping to broaden students’ horizons. We hope students could actively participate in this year’s competition and seize this opportunity to show the world their works.

Most importantly, Ms. Chen, on behalf of the executive team of TISDC, gave her special thanks to Prof. Ming-Lan Kang of Department of Fine Art at NTCU for assisting TISDC to organize this promotional campaign, which had rounded off.

Caption: Promoting TIDSC at National Taipei University of Education