2021-09-06

The Online Preliminary Selection in Taiwan of 2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition Had Passed Off Successfully. 981 entries were shortlisted.

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 “Regenerate.” This year, the Competition attracted 21,901 entries from 970 schools and departments in 59 countries/regions around 6 continents, which is still a high record of submissions received.

The 2021TISDC Preliminary Selection in Taiwan of took place online on August 20th to August 29th online. 80 experts in design from Taiwan, Germany, Denmark, Scotland, France, Canada, Malaysia, Japan, China, Thailand, Switzerland, United States of America and Hong Kong were invited to form the jury panels for Product Design Category, Visual Design Category and Digital Animation Category. Even if the world is impacted by COVID-19, there’s still a great amount of entries the competition received. In the ten days of online Preliminary Selection, 30 jurors from product design category, 30 jurors from visual design category and 20 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, 981 entries were eventually shortlisted, which included works from Taiwan, India, United States of America, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Iran, China, Singapore, Thailand, Russia, Hong Kong, Sweden, Italy, Malaysia, Czech Republic, Vietnam, Australia, Macau, Republic of Slovenia, Belgium, Israel, Canada, Spain, Poland, Bolivia, Ukraine, France, Switzerland 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 Mr. Kevin Yu-Jui Chou, the design director of KEV Design Studio and Ms. Peggy Wung, the Co-founder of Jin Tang Culture Co., Ltd for Product Design Category, Mr. James Chen, the creative director of Magic Creative Design and Ms. Vivi Liou, the founder and design director of Leaf Design for Visual Design Category, and Mr. Chun-Chieh Lien, the founder of dot2dot and Ms. Chishan Sandra Liu, the head of production at HTC VIVE ORIGINALS for Digital Animation Category, all agreed that “Regenerate,” 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 2021TISDC in the next two weeks. Following the Preliminary Selection in Taiwan, 2021TISDC is going to hold the Online Final Selection from September 23rd to October 22nd. 6 domestic and 39 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 2021TISDC, please visit https://www.tisdc.org/en.

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