Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology participated in the A +
Creative Season Design Competition by the Ministry of Culture: the video "Yao Wish" won the first prize and NT$ 150,000.

Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology participated in the 8th A + Creative Season Design Competition by the Bureau of Cultural Heritages, the Ministry of Culture. There were 19 universities participating in the competition, with students from 37 departments and more than 879 works. The work “Yao Wish” was created by the student team of the Department of Visual Design and Communication and directed by Prof. Zhao-Shi Huang and Prof. Chian-Dan Liu, a 2D animation combined with the real shooting work. It followed closely the awareness of cultural asset protection stipulated by the Bureau. Through the use of aesthetic design, the team created a beautiful and yet conflicting aesthetic interpretation in line with the idea of design upheld by the Bureau and won the audience’s highest applause, together with the first prize and prize money NT$ 150,000.

【Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology participated in the A + Creative Season Design Competition by the Ministry of Culture: the video "Yao Wish" won the first prize and NT$ 150,000: the winning team, Director Guo-Long Shi of the Bureau of Culture and Culture (middle), Dean He-Tian He of the College of Digital Design (right), and the team advisor Prof. Pei-Chi Su (left).】

The winner "Yao wish" was created by Yun-Ting Ma, You-Shuan Jiang, Jia-Yu Gen, Tin-Gan Liu, Ying-Jun Guo, and Ting-Yuan Hsu, who combined visual design and digital media technology, and many other techniques. The work describes the changes of the West Market of Tainan, which has been declining due to the vicissitudes of the time. The video work, on one hand, shows the prosperity of the past and, on the other hand, shows the collapse of the decadent scene. The conflict creates a special sense of beauty. Judges of the five categories agreed that the completeness and presentation of this work has gone beyond the industry level, and the same holds true of its visual design and digital media, which is a perfect integration of the cultural asset protection awareness with design and aesthetics. It is a good interpretation of the design and the merits required by the Ministry of Culture and Culture, closely In line with the core of the very ideas. It was unanimously favored by the assessment of the judges

【Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology participated in the A + Creative Season Design Competition by the Ministry of Culture: the video "Yao Wish" won the first prize and NT$ 150,000.The winner "Yao wish" was created by Yun-Ting Ma, You-Shuan Jiang, Jia-Yu Gen, Tin-Gan Liu, Ying-Jun Guo, and Ting-Yuan Hsu.】

A + Creative Season Design Competition encompasses five categories of works: visual communication, industrial design, fashion design, digital media, and space design. There were approximately 2,000 international works from design schools or design brands of Singapore, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, China and other countries. This year the total number of participating works amount to 879, the largest number over the past few years. In addition to the NT$ 150,000 for the first A+ prize winner. NT$ 60,000 was given to the first A+ prize winner of each category, NT$ 10,000 for the second prize, and NT$ 6,000 for the third prize winner. There were 16 prizes in total.

【Selection from the video work "Yao Wish".】

Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology has spared no effort in cultivating students’ creative power. President Chien Tai said that STUST in recent years has been given greatest amount of subsidy from the Ministry of Education. The Department of Visual Design and Communication invited well-known professionals as co-instructors to give students great guidance. It is now obvious that STUST’s policy of apply learning to practice has been well implemented over the past few years and now having very good results, so that production and management can be seamlessly met, giving rise to industry's talent.

【The winning team of the 8th A+ Creative Season Design Competition.】