Three key design industry events take place this December 10 in Songshan Culture and Creative Park: Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Exhibition; Forum; and the Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Award Ceremony
Head to Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital city, this December to experience the innovation and expertise of the huaren (Chinese-speaking) design world first hand. GOLDEN PIN DESIGN AWARD 2015 FORUM “Design: Ideas Realized”: an event that brings design industry leaders from around the world together in Taipei, will be held on December 10. On the same day, the Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Exhibition–a free multimedia exhibition of more than 500 products from Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Design Mark winners–opens. The Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Award Ceremony, where this year’s Best Design winners will be announced, will be held on the evening of December 10.
GOLDEN PIN DESIGN AWARD 2015 FORUM “Design: Ideas Realized”
The December 10 talks will take place across a morning and an afternoon session, each featuring three 20-minute talks and a panel discussion. Among the renowned speakers gracing the stage the at the event will be Naoto Fukasawa, a world-renowned Japanese industrial designer and Chair of the Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Final Selection Jury; Lyndon Neri, one half of the Shanghai-based, globally influential spatial and product design studio, Neri&Hu Design & Research Office; and William To, Creative and Programme Director for PMQ, one of Hong Kong’s most innovative department store concepts, and Senior Consultant for the Hong Kong Design Centre.
Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Exhibition
Visitors to the Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Exhibition will have the opportunity to come face-to-face with this year’s 565 Design Mark winning products and projects. The exhibition, which features the most innovative huaren (Chinese-speaking) market products and projects from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, and even Germany has been designed as a multimedia experience. Visitors can see winning products from all classifications, including home living, medical, electronic and hi-tech industries. Gearlab’s AKIAK Greenland Paddle, one of the 57 finalists, has set up a special area complete with canoes to allow audiences to feel the experience of using their revolutionary paddle. The Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Exhibition opens on December 10, 2015 and closes on April 3, 2016 at Taiwan Design Museum in Taipei’s Songshan Cultural and Creative Park.
Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Award Ceremony
The Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Best Design winners will be announced in the Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Award Ceremony, on the evening of December 10 at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei. 57 Finalists, which were officially revealed on October 22, have the opportunity to attend the Golden Pin Design Award Ceremony on December 10 this year. The majority of the 57 Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Finalist products and projects come from designers and design firms in Taiwan (32), followed by those in China (19), Hong Kong (5), and Singapore (1). The projects are spread across four categories: Product Design (25); Visual Communication Design (25); Spatial Design (5); and Packaging Design (2). It is at this prestigious event that they will discover who will be taking home a Golden Pin Design Award 2015 Best Design trophy!
The Golden Pin Concept Design Award Best Design winners will also be announced. This year entries were submitted by 17 areas and countries at the close of the call for entries in late July 2015. The strongest representation came from, perhaps unsurprisingly, countries with significant huaren (Chinese-speaking) populations: China and Taiwan, followed by Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, and Singapore. Other countries that submitted entries this year include; from Asia, India, Indonesia, Laos, South Korea, and Vietnam; and internationally: Bulgaria, Italy, Poland, Russia, the UK, and the USA. After several rounds of judging, the Golden Pin Concept Design Award has announced a 13 project-strong shortlist. Shortlisted participants are in the running to receive one of three Best Design of the Year Awards, each worth NT$300,000 (approx. US$9,800) or one of 10 Golden Pin Concept Design Awards, each worth NT$10,000 (approx. US$330).
The ceremony, which is curated by pioneering Taiwanese motion graphics studio, JL Design and hosted by famous TV anchor Lulu Hsia, will be attended by members of Best Design winning companies and studios, and huaren and international design world luminaries. The ceremony will also feature two performance: Semifusa, a group of six Taiwanese string instrument musicians, will perform at the opening; Herman Kolgen, an award-winning Canadian artist, will perform LINK.C during the middle.
For more information, please visit the Golden Pin Design Award website ( http://www.goldenpin.org.tw/en/) and the official Facebook page ( http://www.facebook.com/GoldenPinDesign)
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