Taipei Design Award (TDA) 2025

Taipei Design Award (TDA) 2025 is now open for entries!

Taipei Design Award (TDA) 2025 : Taipei Design Award (TDA) 2025, international competition now in its 18th year has been recently opened for entries and like every year invites all designers from all over the world to participate.

➜ Short description

The Taipei Design Award (TDA) 2025, has entered its 18th year and now is open for entries inviting designers from various fields and all parts of the world to participate.

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.

Entries can be submitted in the following competition 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.
➜ Taipei Impact Design Award

Entries must be original creations of the contestants completed after 1 January 2023.

➜ Who may enter?

Everyone around the world are welcomed to participate individually or as a group with one member as main correspondent. Each group is limited to five members.

➜ Prize:

This year’s total prize money is up to NT$ 5,5 million including NT$ 600,000 for the Grand Prize in each competition category.