Graduating Students Jostling for Top Slots in Young Designer's Exhibition 2021
Release Date 29 April 2021
** Attention! A Rise in COVID-19 Again! YODEX has announced a cancellation of the event on May 11. **
NKUST Industrial Design Department (ID) graduating students of 2021 have exhibited their designs at First Campus on May 14 and will present their works from May 14 to 17 at the 2021 Young Designer's Exhibition (YODEX). The Ceremony for Young Pin Design Award and Young Pin Design Sponsored Special Award will also be held on YODEX.
ID students won the top prize in product design at Young Pin Design Award last year. This year, ID students have 3 designs nominated for four of the Young Pin Design Awards and 10 designs nominated for eleven special awards. The standout winners will be announced at the Young Pin Design Award Ceremony on May 16.
In 2020, the award ceremony of both awards was canceled due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Our graduate Wang, Yu-Wei (王諭薇) and Wu, Syuan-Huei (吳宣褘), whose design work “Rotate Restaurant Trolley” won the top prize in product design, didn’t have the chance to receive the prize on the ceremony.
Thus, Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI) Vice Dean Lin, Sin-Bao (林鑫保) led his team to visit NKUST in-person to grant the award to students.
As talents with problem-solving and creative design skills are in the spotlight in many sectors, young people have been developing their own way to appreciate creative design works.
These awards attracted numerous promising talents across the nation to battle it out. We are expecting that our graduating students would be winners in the awards this year.
Young Designer's Exhibition (YODEX)
The 2021 Young Designer's Exhibition (YODEX) will be staged from May 14 to 17 at Nangang Exhibition Center in Taipei City.
YODEX has built up a global reputation as a premier showcase for emerging Taiwan's design talents. It is also the largest show of student-created designs made by Taiwan’s graduating students from design departments at tertiary education institutions.
TDRI is the executive organizer for the 2021 YODEX and the 2021 Young Pin Design Award. This year is the 40th anniversary of YODEX and the 14th anniversary of the Young Pin Design Award. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of YODEX, TDRI invited Aaron Nieh’s design team to create a new look for the exhibitioner.
The 2021 award has attracted 5,952 submissions from students of 66 tertiary education institutions nationwide and 812 of them were nominated on April 20.
Young Pin Design Award
The 2021 Young Pin Design Award has 9 categories ranging over the categories of craft design, fashion design, spatial design, social design, digital graphic design, digital interaction design, visual communication design, and design for the academia-industry cooperative project.
The work “Small Street Vendor of Motorcycles” of Jheng, Yu-Tong (鄭羽彤) and “Pop-up & Situational Board Game” of Jiang, Fu-Cen (江馥岑) were nominated for the product design category; the work “GOGO! Bird Kafe” of Hu, Wei-Shan (許瑋珊) and Tang, Yu-Cian (唐語謙) was nominated for the categories of the social design and the design for the academia-industry cooperative project.
Young Pin Design Sponsored Special Award
The Young Pin Design Sponsored Special Award is hosted by Good Design Association, Taiwan, supported by 46 domestic enterprises. A total of 507 designs went into the final evaluation. NKUST ID students have 10 designs nominated for 11 Young Pin Design Sponsored Special Awards.
Further Reading
Young Designer's Exhibition (YODEX).
Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI)
Translated by Jess Lin Reviewed by Prof. Amy Tang
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