Short Description
The “Taipei Design Award” has entered its 18th year. With the vision of “making design the driving force to shape a better future”, by bringing together the creativity of diverse cultures, it has become an important tool to promote urban progress, promote industrial development and improve the quality of life. strength. Through this design competition, designers and creative talents from all over the world are attracted to participate, shaping Taipei’s future city image and enhancing Taipei’s design visibility.
In order to promote the development of sustainable cities and at the same time strengthen the close link between the Taipei Design Award brand and Taipei City, the “Taipei Impact Design Award” had been established in 2023. With the theme of “Sustainability and Inclusion”, it will collect works that will solve the problems of Taipei City, Improve the quality of life of citizens or the sustainable city topics, and encourage design to be included in Innovative concepts such as sustainable development, resilient cities, net zero carbon emissions, humanistic care, and shared inclusion.
The Taipei Design Award is not only a competition, but also a platform for creative exchange and design sharing, promoting cross-domain dialogue and co-creation of a better life, thereby driving the value upgrade of the entire industry chain.
TOPICS
Sustainable and Integration: From the perspective of Taipei city, we encourage design to incorporate innovative concepts such as sustainable development, resilient city, net zero carbon emission, humanistic care, sharing and integration, and embody design energy in housing, transportation, education, economy, culture, environment and other aspects, bringing endless creativity and vitality to the city through design.
Eligibility
- Domestic and foreign individuals/teams/enterprises/government organizations are welcomed to participate individually or as a group with one member as main correspondent. Cross-Sector participation is also encouraged.
- Entries must be original creations of the contestants completed after January 1, 2023.
- The competition welcomes works that fit the theme of “Sustainability and Inclusion”, have the potential to solve Taipei’s urban problems, improve citizens’ quality of life or sustainable urban issues, and have been implemented in Taipei City.
Submission Requirements
- The title of the work (in Chinese or English, supplemented by other languages).
- Description of the creative concept of the work (in English, supplemented by other languages; 1,200
characters or fewer in English, 500 words or less in Chinese and other languages) - Maximum 5 images of the work can be uploaded.
- The image format is jpg, the recommended size is 1190 pixels wide x 840 pixels high, the resolution is 96dpi or higher than 150 dpi or lower, and the file size should not exceed 3MB.
- If you use AI to create your work, you must provide a full description of your work.
- If there is a movie or animation to illustrate your work, please provide a link to watch the movie in the description field (please provide a short URL), and set the permission to be shared.
How to Apply
Online Application
Program Benefits & Awards
- Grand Prize (NTD 600,000)
- Gold Award (NTD 500,000)
- Silver Award (NTD200,000)
- Bronze Award (NTD150,000)
- Taiwan Design Alliance Special Award (NTD 30,000)
- Judges’ Award (NTD 30,000)
- Distinction Several per category
- Sponsors Award
Note:
- The Grand Prize is the highest honorary award selected from all the finalists of Taipei Design Award and the finalists of the “Taipei Impact Design Award”.
- Aside from the cash prize, the Grand Prize /Golden Award/Silver Award/Bronze Award/ ICoD Excellence Award / IFI Special Award / WDO Sustainability Award /Circular Design Award/ Social Innovation Award /Judges’ Special Award winners will also receive a trophy and a certificate of recognition; Sponsors Award, and Distinction winners will receive a certificate of recognition.
- Winners will be authorized to use the Taipei Design Award’s annual logo for online/physical marketing, packaging, websites, advertising, exhibitions, product bodies, etc. of their winning works, and must comply with the official logo application manual. If violations occur, the organizer has the right to revoke the authorization.
- Each award can be “absent” or “adjusted” according to the quality of the entries after the final selection review meeting. The judge panel also reserves the right to change the prize or the award granted.
- The organizers and sponsors reserve the right to adjust the number for the Sponsors Award
- The names of all the winners will be announced on the official website to allow businesses to contact them for future design projects.
Entry Fee
None
Location
Taipei, Taiwan
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
Website Link: https://taipeidaward.taipei/
