Tahan Lin is like a walking encyclopedia of crowdfunding. He responds intuitively and speaks assuredly about his own observations and analyses when discussing crowdfunding and the current situation, trends, and cases on both the domestic and international front.

The Final Selection juries selected a total of 91 Finalists in the two awards, from designers in 6 countries and regions including Taiwan, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore.

Heading to Singapore for the very first time, Design Perspectives x Golden Pin Salon stages hard talks in English with three design gurus from Singapore and Taiwan. The headline speakers include celebrity interior designer Peter Tay, Creativeans’ Kimming Yap, and DDG’s Mark Stocker.

The desire for something new was clear, but where to begin? Nieh believes any genuine change in poster design requires a focus on copywriting, because “while it may not be difficult to create a beautiful design, without well-written copy it is nothing more than just a pretty advertisement.” To come up with something completely new and refreshing, Nieh decided to depart from traditional norms of copywriting and forge a path to a new approach.