The 18th Taiwan Excellence Award, diverting from earlier ITC-oriented submissions, showed wider variety in entries. For the first time, makers of automobiles and motor scooters took top honors, demonstrating that Taiwan's designers are also capable of working out innovations in products besides ITC, a field for which Taiwan is generally well known globally. Luxgen Motor Co., Ltd., a subsid...

Taiwanese automaker China Motor Corp. (CMC), the local assembler of Mitsubishis, recently announced its launch soon of a own-branded electric-scooter in the first half for sale locally and overseas. CMC's domestic automobile sales also reported good performance. According to the latest statistics of new-car sales in Taiwan, the company enjoyed a 43.3% year-on-year (YoY) shipment increase ...

Once again the long-awaited results of a highly regarded design promoter—Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO)—have been announced in October. The 2009 Good Design Awards honors some of the brightest minds worldwide in the design profession. In 2009, the JIDPO received 2,952 applications worldwide. After being screened twice, 1,034 entries from 558 enterprises received the Good D...

The southern region covering almost one-fourth of Taiwan has been developed as the island’s major industrial base, including 19 distinctive industrial clusters, mostly related to traditional manufacturing. To further vitalize the local economy, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is developing cutting-edge, proactive technologies to nurture prospective industries that are theoreticall...

After around one decade of development, Taiwan’s creative cultural industry has seen fruitful results and attracts creative participants from various fields, reinforcing the influence of “creative culture” on human life. The Taiwan International Cultural & Creative Industry Expo (TICCIE) has thus seen considerable growth in the number of either participants or exhibit categories since the Council...

Taiwan entries win more than a quarter of the trophies The "Best 100" winners of the iF concept design award 2012 were announced in late May and included 27 entries from Taiwan. In this ultimate competition for young design talent, two of the top 20 winners that received both trophies and prize money are from Taiwan. Taiwan once again showed its strength in design talent by accounting for mo...

Teng Yao Hardware Industrial Co., Ltd., established in 1973, specializes in the development and production of springs and hardware used in a variety of industries. The company boasts expertise in producing flat springs, power springs, and constant force springs. For several years, the company has been consistently retooling production equipment to turn out high-end products. The company...

The Taiwan Design Center (TDC) recently announced the winners of the 2011 Taiwan International Design Competition (TIDC). This year’s competition marks the TIDC’s 10th anniversary, and once again Taiwanese designers have finished well, winning the top three gold, silver, and bronze awards. In the past decade the national Taiwan Design Center has attracted professional and design students from ...