The award spans four major categories—Product Design, Communication Design, Spatial Design, and Integration Design—celebrating outstanding works across diverse creative fields. Meanwhile, the Golden Pin Concept Design Award, dedicated to pre-market design proposals, is also accepting entries.

The second edition of Taiwan Design Week, hosted by the Industrial Development Bureau of Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and organized by the Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI), took place from 7-15 December, 2024, at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, drawing an impressive 250,000 visitors.

AI has become a powerful tool for inspiring individual creativity. Funded by the Department of Industrial Technology, the Taiwan Design Research Institute has spent three years developing AI tools exclusively for designers, including the “Product Data Explorer,” “User Data Explorer,” “AI Innovation Scenario Generator,” and “AI Design Strategy Generator.”

The first Taiwan Design Week (TDW) was held from December 1st to December 10th at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park this year. Over ten days, over 100 designers and experts presented fascinating designs, creative ideas, as well as latest trends and concepts. With 220,000 visitors in total, it indicated high interests in design in Taiwan.

Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI) launched “Public Service Research: Five Classes Before Design” to share its public service experience and methodology over the four years since its upgrade through actual case studies, guiding people to understand the different research methods in a simple and straightforward manner.

The 2023 Hakka Expo, the largest international cultural festivities in Taiwan this year, officially concluded on October 15th. Over the course of 66 days, the expo drew in over 11 million in attendance.

The 21st Taiwan Design Expo, held in New Taipei City for the first time, wrapped up its 17-day run with an impressive turnout of 6.58 million visitors. The vibrant and creative design personality test captivated both local and international audiences, amassing over 200 million online views and attracting more than 11 million participants to take the test.

Wouldn’t it be even better if the classroom could also be aesthetic to complement what the students hear with what they see? New Taipei City Kuang Jen Catholic High School, which has long focused on music education, has such an aesthetic music classroom—“Resonance Valley.”

Six million individuals(visitors) gathered at Kaohsiung to celebrate the record-breaking Taiwan Design Expo, which was the largest ever and attended by the most designers to date.