2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition – Winners Announced

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