Design Awards - Taiwan
The Golden Pin Design Award (GDPA) is an international event, held annually by the Taiwan Design Center in Taipei. It is the longest-running and only international design award aimed at raising global awareness, and celebrating, design created for and within huaren (Chinese-speaking) communities. The Golden Pin Design Award 2017 Grand Ceremony is schedule to be held on the evening of the 7th of December, 2017, announcing this year’s Best Design winners.
The award is free to enter, and entered products and projects are assessed in three stages by an expert panel of international judges. Following the Secondary Selection rounds held in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Taipei, a total of 410 entries from 9 countries — China, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and USA — have been selected to receive a coveted Design Mark.
The competition, mainly, has 4 award categories. The following 6 recipients have been featured under the respective categories:
Spatial Design
1. IMO Architecture & Design (Taiwan) Xiafu Activity Center:
Adjacent to Hongfu Gong temple in Xiafu, the cultural activity center re-imagines the bright colours of the ornate temple roof as striking verticals. It is able to create and bring about a sense of new vigour and sensibility in the viewer, through not only its vibrant tones but also its intriguingly disruptive structure. Surely something the eye cannot miss.
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2. One Take Architects (China) The Mirrored Sight Shelter:
Set by the north bank of Longxi River in southeast Guizhou, outside the old village of Longli, this architectural installation has become a new regional landmark for not only those visiting the region, but even those living in the area feeling represented by it. Set by the calm waters, the distinctly created structure is a piece of prominence and serenity in the picturesque setting.
Project by:
Li Hao
Creative Director of One Take Architects
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Product Design
1. Sha Design (USA) Eatwell:
Sha Yao set out to resolve her grandmother’s eating difficulties due to dementia, she developed assistive tableware designed to benefit those with cognitive difficulties such as Dementia or Alzheimer’s; motor problems like Parkinson’s, and other such disabilities or illnesses. More than just a highly functional concept and article, the design even represents the kind of universal tableware that forms the fundamental nexus of any traditional Chinese family and its culture.
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2. UID Create (Taiwan) 2017 Universiade Torch:
Rather evidently based on the traditional Olympic torch, this minimalistic concept torch designed for the opening ceremony, was executed using traditional hexagonal bamboo weaving craft. It is sculpted using a modern 5-axis laser, 'upholding tradition' while 'boldly innovating', and so is definitely something for lovers of new-age design to keep out an eye for.
Project by:
Jimmy Chang
Creative Director of UID Create
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Visual Communication Design
Wwave Design (Macau) Uini Soap Branding:
Adding life, excitement and exuberance to an everyday item like a soap, this keenly thought-out and conceptualized effort provides a rather zestful attribute or quality to the sanitary cosmetic product from Macau. Exhibiting an original triangular design through cool colour tones of white and blue, the simplistic look and minimalistic approach very well work their trick on the viewer.
Project by:
Kenneth Ho
Art Director of Wwave Design
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Packaging Design
Taiwan-Dot Design (Taiwan) Taiwanese Tea Series:
Taiwan-Dot Design (Taiwan) was chosen in the category for its Taiwanese Tea Series. The collection displayed gift boxes made from recycled materials, also commemorating the golden days of 1869 – the most prosperous year of the Taiwanese tea industry. Taiwan-Dot Design thus brought about a fresh and renewed touch of that golden period of Taiwanese tea trade history right into the contemporary era of 2017.
Project by:
Han Shih Kuo
Founder & Design, Director of Dot Design
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