2018-10-24

The Final Selection of 2018 Taiwan International Student Design Competition was Rounded Off

Taiwan International Student Design Competition (TISDC), the largest-scale student design competition worldwide, is organized and promoted by the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education (Taiwan), sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation and Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation, and executed by the Department of Visual Communication Design, Asia University. TISDC is now in its eleventh year. The theme of this year’s competition is “Breakthrough and Innovation.” This year, TISDC received 20,833 entries from 895 schools/departments in 66 countries/regions. With the increase in the number of countries/regions participating in the competition, the international visibility of TISDC has increased as well.

The Final Selection of 2018 TISDC was held on October 17 at the multi-showcase exhibition hall of Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei. The selection included the categories of “Product Design,” “Visual Design,” “Digital Animation,” and “Service Design.” The jury consisted of 9 jurors from Taiwan and 23 jurors from abroad. The international jurors contained 3 design experts recommended by the Ministry of Education (Taiwan), inclusive of Mr. Kazuo Tanaka, Mr. Matthias Lechner, and Mr. Jun Zeng, as well as representatives of 20 International Design Organizations, including Antonello Marega of Industrial Design Association (ADI), Päivi Tahkokallio of The Bureau of European Design Association (BEDA), Fabiane Conselvan of Brazil Design Center (CBD), Andrew Pang of Design Business Chamber Singapore (DBCS), Jef Wong of The Designers Institute of New Zealand (DINZ), Leo Chan of Hong Kong Federation of Design Associations (FHKDA), Rachel Wye of Good Design Australia (GDA), Janine Wunder of German Design Council (GDC), Katerina Terekhova of Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design Golden Bee (Golden Bee), Zinnia Nizar of International Council of Design (ico-D), Dhiman Sengupta of India Design Council (IDC), Antonio Castro H. of International Poster Biennial in Mexico (IPBM), Minako Ikeda of Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP), Keun-Yul Son of Korea Ensemble of Contemporary Design (KECD), Pekka Piippo of Lahti International Poster Triennial (Lahti), James Chu of Macau Designers Association (MDA), Andrej Hascak of Brno Biennale Association (SBB), Pichit Virankabutra of Thailand Creative & Design Center (TCDC), Jieh-Cheng Kuo of Taiwan Design Associations (TdA), and Dongchern Cin of The Design Alliance Asia (tDA Asia).

During the international jurors’ visits in Taiwan, the organizer of 2018 TISDC held the “International Design Master Lecture Series” at National Library of Public Information in Taichung and at Da Dong Arts Center in Kaohsiung, inviting 3 international jurors and 3 designers in different fields of Taiwan to give a speech about design. By inviting these design experts to share their experience and observations on design, 2018 TISDC would like to not only benefit the public who are passionate about design but also promote international exchange. The lectures successfully attracted a lot of interest from students and teachers who are learning or teaching design. Every session was remarkable and insightful, and the audience all responded with enthusiasm, taking the opportunity to interact with the international masters.

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