Themes rich and innovative in terms of humanistic care and concern: College of
Digital Design, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 39 works were shortlisted in New Generation Design Exhibition

The 2017 Graduation Project Exhibition—“D. Lion”—of the School of Digital Design, Southern University of Science and Technology, was held from the 19th to 22nd of May, for four consecutive days at the Taipei World Trade Center. A total of 109 works, including animation and film and television works, graphic and packaging design, game and product design, and many others. The theme is "D. Lion," featuring Lion as representative of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, giving a creative impression to the school, with the color of the orange—like the sun—vibrant and hopeful. It is hoped that the lion, with its role as the king of beasts, can take lead of the trend of design.

In "D. Lions" Graduation Project Exhibition, The themes of the projects are diverse and presented in a more innovative way than ever before, including animation and film and television works, integrated marketing, line footage, graphic and packaging design and game and product design. Up to now, the works of the Department of Product Design were nominated for 42 prizes, those of the Department of Information Communication for 26 prizes, those of the Department of Multimedia Entertainment for 5 prizes, and those of the Department of Visual Communication and Design for 21 prizes. Among them, there were 39 works shortlisted in New Generation Design Exhibition, with 13 of those coming from the Department of Information Communication, hitting a record high.

【President Chien Tai of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology and the teachers and students of the College of Digital Design.】

"Let the players return to the fun of the game!" Chairman Hwa-Cheng Chang of the Department of Multimedia and Entertainment said that this year their graduation projects featured the concept of letting the players return to the original intention of the game and experiencing the real feel of the game. For example, the game " Ai Luoge pushing the tower" encompasses thrilling game adventures and fighting, with each level designed to make players completely immersed in the fun of the game. The game was directed by Prof. Mao-Kun Shaw "Ai Luoge" is a representative works, a 3D action adventure game on a PC platform. In the game world, the player has to control the protagonist Ai Luoge, in order to push the tower that confines the princess when he or she encounters enemies on the way. Ai Luoge, on the one hand, has to protect the princess and the tower with his fist and courage to repel the enemies. “Ai Luoge" players feel something more to say. Directed by Prof. Cheng-Shun Shei, "Inu E-NU" is a game where players can experience the universe through the game race interaction. Through the game, players experience in this has a vast number of groups of the universe; each individual is a masterpiece of the creator. Although disputes and robbery are inevitable, only mutual understanding and balance can make human beings live in peace.

"Deep Quantum" is another wonderful work directed by Prof. Cheng-Shun Shei. "Deep Quantum" is a science fiction adventure RPG developed on mobile devices that describe the story of a distant future, a space expedition from the earth, and a shipwreck in the universe. Drifting millions of years later for unknown reasons, the spacecraft starts again in the unknown galaxy. The player has to be confronted with a lot of things in the universe before he or she can find their own meaning of rebirth. The work is characterized by dialogues between mechanical life and human soul. The game describes the surviving human and those mechanical dialogues; yet, unlike the RPG game, players here still need to explore or collect materials in order to synthesize new technologies against the unknown threat of the universe. The game is full of strategy and exploration, deeply loved by the players.

【President Chien Tai of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology and the “D. Lion” in the graduation exhibition of the College of Digital Design.】

This year, a lot of works from the Department of Information and Communication were nominated in the Golden Rookie Award. "Small Days" was nominated at the same time by New Generation Golden Rookie Award for Annual Design Award and Sponsorship Special Award. Remember the taste of the ink and the words in writing? “Small days” runs through the calendar and uses the 365 days to feature the traditional angle of absence, mottled as an element and designed to have a defective beauty of the "small day font." Combined with "appropriate" and "bogey" matters, the design creates a special "word definition" for daily births and special paper on special festivals to convey the "text temperature" that is gradually forgotten by science and technology.

"NEKO" is shortlisted by the New Generation Golden Rookie for Annual Best Design – and Digital Multimedia Design. The actress in the animation is a city guardian, and she will wear her combat suit and quickly rid of any harm to the city's brought by pests and monsters. This animation starts from the heroine's point of view to promote the owners to help pet pest control work.

【The 2017 Graduation Project Exhibition—“D. Lion”—of the School of Digital Design, Southern University of Science and Technology, was held from the 19th to 22nd of May, for four consecutive days at the Taipei World Trade Center Center.】

This year, there are "Here comes the Pomelo," "Book Floating Day," and "UNDERMOODS" from the Department of Visual Design and Communication—the three commodity design group finalists were also nominated by the New Generation golden Rookie for Sponsorship Special Award. Prof. Pei-Chi Su is the General Counselor for all these great works. She said that the graduation works cherish the hope to cultivate the rookies in designing through discovery, transformation, and creativity to convey around the resonance and to arouse public attention to life and cultural issues.

According to Prof. Bing-Zhang Chen, Chairman of the Department of Information and Communication, all the works this year are able to break through and focus on social issues, showing their ability to communicate with people and society, whether it is in the drama, documentary, news, animation, or integrated marketing work. This is the reason for their victories. There are indeed a lot of wonderful works; it is really too numerous to mention. For example, the winner of Youth Film Festival Award— "When the Juvenile Meets Old Antiques," a documentary that brought the production team to the old master to understand the details of the operation of the carbon pole projector; thus, the old technology in the era of ever-changing trends can leave important records to the world. The film is a very valuable in its subject that even dusty terraces can be seen as a love letter to the film," as written in the review by judges.

【The 2017 Graduation Project Exhibition—“D. Lion”—of the School of Digital Design, Southern University of Science and Technology, was held from the 19th to 22nd of May, for four consecutive days at the Taipei World Trade Center Center.】

This year, according to the general counselor Prof. You-De Lu, "Students of Information and Communication are not afraid of difficulties," the old saying goes really well this year for students in the graduation project on their hard work. However, the Department of Information and Communication is a cross-disciplinary department; this year all the themes came with great creativity that subverted the tradition in the past, such as drama with social issues, documentary challenging the film itself, news with small animation, 3D and VR trying to integrate marketing use Audio and video marketing, and many other attempts to develop new pages for the contents of the new media works.

【The new generation design exhibition of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, organized by the College of Digital Design as Graduation Achievement Exhibition "D. Lion."】

“The Future Partner of A Tour guide" is a work to remove the inconvenience on the itinerary for tour guides and tourists. It won the bronze medal in the interactive Technology and Game Design Group in Youth Design Festival. In addition, the Taiwan-Ahab team led by Prof. Ka-Hui Fang focuses on the study of co-existence of "Education" and "Fun" in conjunction with the motive of the marine life. It makes the player go through the AR scan sea museum to explain the plates and signs about marine life to increase marine knowledge in the player. It won the Gold Award of Application Software category.

In recent years, the Department of Product Design, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, has been a winner in a lot of competitions. This year it is no exception. For example, the work "Growing Forming" was nominated for 4 items in the IF Rookie Design Award. The work was produced by the students who grew up in a big village in Changhua County, who worked on the development of a series of recycling waste, such as rattan fiber made of hot-pressed paper, which is easy to operate on the grape mold and rattan stool, etc. The purpose is to solve the agricultural waste and ease the burden of costs and environmental protection. In addition, in the vineyard in around the mold forming, characteristics grow from the land to the organic furniture. In the process of rural development, human values continue to achieve the new ideas by young migratory workers. "Circall," "Coloral," and "Flora and fauna," and other works were also nominated as the finalists. It is believed that this year the department’s works will also be given awards.

【All the participants in the graduation exhibition of the College of Digital Design, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology.】