The Impressive 85 Jurors of the 2020 Golden Pin Design Award

6/25/2020

When the world is doing its best to mitigate the outbreak of the global pandemic, Taiwan’s Golden Pin Design Award is offering contest entrants an unprecedented opportunity to design for epidemic prevention.

Golden Pin Design Award is the longest-running international design award that celebrates products or projects expressly created for Chinese-speaking communities. The Golden Pin Design Award Group is comprised of two international awards — the Golden Pin Design Award, the Golden Pin Concept Design Award — and the Young Pin Design Award for students in Taiwan.

Top row, from left to right are Yah-Leng Yu, Marco Casagrande and Gerald Mark Soto. Bottom row, from left to right are Sonja Schiefer and Fumie Shibata.

The impressive 85-person jury—the largest yet—of leading international designers and experts in a variety of fields from 15 countries, including influential Japanese product designer Fumie Shibata; Finnish architect Marco Casagrande; Sonja Schiefer, German industrial designer and director of BMW group Designworks’ Shanghai studio; Yah-Leng Yu, founder of Singapore’s Foreign Policy Design Group; and Gerald Mark Soto, the 2D animation director of acclaimed New York animation studio Brand New School.

Other noted jurors include renowned social designer Eisuke Tachikawa (Japan), graphic designer Felix Pfäffli (Switzerland), ico-D President Johnathon Strebly (Canada) and industrial designer Nathan Yong (Singapore), Tupperware Vice President of Research and Innovation David Kusuma (US), Dassault Systèmes Anne Asensio (France), Xiaomi Group co-founder De Liu (Mainland China) and Taiwanese graphic designer Aaron Nieh (*the key visual designer of the crowdfunded media campaign for “Taiwan can Help” published in the New York Times).

Thinking of participating? Entry fees have been waived for entries related to epidemic prevention, and while the early bird period has concluded, registration is still open until July 9.

Help make the world a better place and show your design prowess. Review the guidelines here and visit Golden Pin for more info.

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