The Preliminary Selection in Taiwan of 2019 Taiwan International Student Design Competition Had Passed Off Successfully

Organized by Ministry of Education (Taiwan), sponsored by iSee Taiwan Foundation, Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation, and Industrial Technology Research Institute, and executed by Asia University, Taiwan International Student Design Competition is now in its twelfth year. The theme of this year’s competition is “Empathy.” This year, the Competition attracted 21,988 entries from 810 schools and departments in 66 countries/regions around 5 continents, which had an all time high record of submissions received.

The Preliminary Selection in Taiwan of 2019 TISDC took place on August 31^st and September 1^st at Taiwan New Horizon. 24 experts in design from Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, India, and Korea were invited to form the panels of jurors for Product Design Category, Visual Design Category and Digital Animation Category. Owing to the great amount of entries the Competition received, it took the jurors two days to finish screening all the entries. After rounds of strict and enthusiastic screening and discussion, 523 entries were eventually on the shortlist, which included works from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Korea, the USA, Canada, Turkey, Iran, United Kingdom, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and Russia. 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. Lance Han for Product Design Category, Mr. Chia-Chang Yang for Visual Design Category, and Mr. Muh Chen for Digital Animation Category, all agreed that“Empathy,”the theme of this year’s competition, is a concept rooted in affective commitment. Thus, they saw many participants demonstrate the relationship among people and the relationship between human and the 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 2019 TISDC this week. Following the Preliminary Selection in Taiwan, 2019 TISDC is going to hold the Final Selection on October 24^th at the Multi-Showcase Exhibition Hall of Songshan Cultural and Creative Park. 10 domestic designers and 26 international ones will form the panels of jurors to demonstrate the diversity and credibility of TISDC and come out with the winners of this year’s competition. On October 25^th, TISDC will hold an International Design Masters Lecture Series, inviting international design masters to give a talk and share their design experiences with the audience. For those who are interested in design shouldn’t miss the golden opportunity to have design exchange with international masters. To know more about 2019 TISDC, visit https://www.tisdc.org/.

Group Photo Taken with All the Jurors of 2019 Taiwan International Student Design Competition’s Preliminary Selection in Taiwan

Prof. Apex Lin, Project Director of 2019 Taiwan International Student Design Competition, Introduced the Comeptition during the Opening Ceremony of the Preliminary Selection in Taiwan

Screening in the Product Design Category during the Preliminary Selection in Taiwan of 2019 TISDC

Group Photo Taken with Jurors of Product Design Category

Screening in the Visual Design Category during the Preliminary Selection in Taiwan of 2019 TISDC

Group Photo Taken with Jurors of Visual Design Category

Screening in the Digital Animation Category during the Preliminary Selection in Taiwan of 2019 TISDC

Group Photo Taken with Jurors of Digital Animation Category