Deadline: July 18, 2019 00:00 CEST| Apply here
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Eligibility: Everyone around the world are welcomed to participate individually or as a group (each group is limited to five members) with one member as main correspondent.
Entries must be original creations of the contestants completed after June 30, 2017.
Taipei International Design Award 2019
Taipei City Government organizes the Taipei International Design Award in the ethos of “Design for Adaptive City”, as an on-going gesture to the world, particularly to those with a passion for creativeness and design, a gesture in projecting the urban branding imagery of “Design Taipei; Dream Taipei”.
Design for adaptive city
Here is an open call for outstanding international designs and an effort to shape Taipei into a convergence platform for creative designs, thereby to discover creative designs with business potential, and further still, to encourage practices of social design in an advocacy that design as a medium can bring humans a better, more pleasant and convenient life.
Taipei City Government has been devoted to shaping Taipei into a city with design visions and has been encouraging designers to contemplate on the meaning of design, to see design as a problem-solving tool, that is, to solve problems inevitably faced by the general public, the society or the city, and to further present Taipei International Design Award in the ethos of “Design for Adaptive City”.
Categories
Entries are grouped into three main categories:
- Industrial desing：
Industrial design refers to design works that can be mass-produced, including general and digital application, transportation tools, equipment and instruments, daily utilities and household goods, IT and home appliances, etc. - Visual communication design：
Visual communication includes designs of digital graphic creations, identity, posters, packaging and printing (including digital printing) etc. - Public space design：
Open space provided for public use, government buildings and certain private establishments.
Prizes
The total award amounts to NT$3,800,000, including:
- Taipei City Mayor Award: NTD 600,000
- Golden Award: NTD 500,000
- Silver Award: NTD 200,000
- Bronze Award NTD 150,000
- Excellence Award: NTD10,000
- IFI Special Award: NTD10,000
- Social Design Award: NTD 150,000
- Applied Design Award: NTD 150,000
- Universal Design Award: NTD 150,000
- Judges’ Special Award: NTD 10,000
- People’s Choice Award: NTD 10,000
Interested in applying for the Taipei International Design Award 2019? Register your participation by following the application link and taking the suggested steps.
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