The Taipei Design Award (TDA) has entered its 19th year and now accepting entries for 2026. The organizers are looking for outstanding international designs across multiple disciplines.
With the core vision of “making design a driving force for shaping a better future“, the award selects outstanding design works from across the country, aiming to establish Taipei as an international platform for creative exchange. It seeks to discover innovative designs with commercial potential and social value, encourages design to respond to contemporary issues, expands its social influence, enhances the added value of businesses and products, and promotes the sustainable development of the design industry
This year’s total prize money is NT $4,5 million, including NT $600,000 for the Grand Prize in each competition category.
Taipei is a dynamic and innovative city, and the Taipei Design Award has been organized by the Industrial Development Bureau of Taipei Municipal Government since 2008.
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 creating a better life, thus driving the value of the overall industry chain.
The organizers are looking forward to receiving entries in the following 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
Everyone around the world is welcome to participate individually or as a group with one member as main correspondent.
Entries must be original creations of the contestants completed after 1 January 2024.
The competition was known as Taipei Industrial Design Award between 2008 and 2011, re-named in 2012 as Taipei International Design Award, and re-named again in 2022 as Taipei Design Award, and has been so called since.
No Entry Fee!
It's free to enter.