Now in its 15th edition, the Taipei Design Award is an open call for outstanding international designs and an effort to shape Taipei into a convergence platform for creative designs, thereby to discover creative designs with business potential, and further still, to encourage practices of social design in an advocacy that design as a medium can bring humans a better, more pleasant and convenient life.
There are three categories:
• Industrial Design - design works that can be mass-produced, including general and digital application, transportation tools, equipment and instruments, daily utilities and household goods, IT and home appliances, etc.
• Visual Communication Design - designs of digital graphic creations, identity, posters, packaging and printing.
• Public Space Design - Open space provided for public use, government buildings and private establishments that are partially provided for public use.