The 2021 Graduation Achievement Exhibition of the College of Digital Design, STUST was held at the New Generation Design Exhibition of Nangang Exhibition Hall, Taipei on May 14-17. The graduation exhibition this year was designed with the theme of "Construction Time." Design begins with thinking, the sculpture “The Thinker” symbolizes that the students of the College of Digital Design are thinking day and night, completing tasks in various fields, and constantly carrying out engineering construction, such as creating and carving. Each department has distinct characteristics. The visual transmission works focus on the local cultural and creative industries to create a high degree of professionalism; the production and design of their works are highly connected, diversified, innovative, and practical; as the completeness of the series of works is close to market specifications, manufacturers are eager to try. The works of the Department of Information and Communication started from the adversity of the pandemic and insisted upon the spirit of subverting universal values. This year, a total of 24 works were shortlisted. The creativity and splendor of the works should not be underestimated. The new generation of design exhibition was originally expected to bring in 80,000 people. Before the official announcement of the new generation of design exhibition on May 11, 2021, students were still actively preparing for the exhibition on the premise of complying with the strictest anti-pandemic policy. The school also held many considerations: it chose to respect the opinions of all students and let the students choose whether to participate in the exhibition according to their own wishes. However, it was still impossible to predict the changes in the pandemic situation. In the end, when the official announcement was made, the graduation exhibition tour across Taiwan was ended, and the graduation season arrived early.

[Poster for the 2021 Exhibition of the College of Digital Design—"Construction Time".]

The work "Daywood and Me | Tainan Park Plant Story Museum" by the Department of Visual Communication Design used an online illustrated book exhibition to lead everyone to understand Tainan Park from the perspective of plants, hoping to make Tainan Park an ecological field for plant ecology education. This ecological education combined with graphic design of the work was recognized by three awards, including the category of "Communication Design" and the that of "Digital Interactive Design" for the "Golden Point Rookie Sponsor Special Award" and the "Golden Point Rookie Design Award—Best Design of the Year Award for Communication Design," The performance was very eye-catching!

["Daywood and Me | Tainan Park Plant Story Museum"—a student work by the Department of Visual Communication Design, STUST—were nominated to be the finalists for three awards.]

The documentary work "Happiness Practice" by the Infinite Imaging Team of the Department of Information and Communication, which explores how the idea of love can be demonstrated in different spectra of films and television, was shortlisted for the Digital Image Design Category of Golden Point Rookie Design Award. Starting from the moral restraints of different eras, the film shows how those who are not free to love and those who get married for second time continue to explore and practice in marriage before they find their own happiness. The film was also invited to be screened on the May and June theme [Youth Story] at the No. 15 Documentary Film Theater in Fuzhong, New Taipei City.

[The work “Happiness Practice” by students from the Department of Information and Communication of STUST was shortlisted for the Best Design Award of the Digital Image Design Category of New Generation Design Exhibition for Golden Point Rookie Design Award.]

The Department of Multimedia and Computer Entertainment Science, which focuses on game research and development, shows the students’ pursuit of synchronous innovation in content and technology. The game “Blooming in the Deep Sea” is an excellent game work focusing on issues and was shortlisted for the "Best Design Award of the Year” in “Golden Point Rookie Design Award—Digital interactive design category." Through the game worldview, the work strengthens the elements of garbage pollution affecting the marine environment, call on the public to pay attention to garbage pollution issues, implement environmental protection actions that suit them, and integrate complex environmental issues into the game.

[The student work "Blooming Deep Sea" of the Department of Multimedia and Entertainment Science, STUST, was shortlisted for the "Golden Point Rookie Design Award-Best Design of the Year—Digital Interactive Design Category" in the New Generation Design Exhibition.]

The innovative product design work "N+ Smart Nursing Car" is an innovative, diverse and humanistic medical assistance work. It was shortlisted for the "Golden Point Rookie Design Award-Best Design of the Year—Product Design Category." This work is equipped with a smart pill box system and drug identification, The overall planning of the drug delivery process is connected the pharmacist and nurses, lights up the patient's pill box that needs to be taken according to the time of day, and automatically opens the corresponding pill box after scanning the patient's barcode to avoid people from medication errors, solve long-term medical errors, and ward off the hidden worries of damage to the patient's body rights.

[The student work “N+Smart Nursing Car” of the Department of Innovative Product Design, STUST, was shortlisted for the "Best Design of the Year for Golden Point Rookie Design Award—Product Design Category" in the New Generation Design Exhibition.]

Deng-Maw Lu, President of STUST, stated that STUST actively promotes the cultivation of talents with seamless integration of learning and production based on the "multi-adaptability" and "practical purpose" of technical and vocational education, and cultivates the industry. STUST actively encourages students to participate in more off-campus activities and competitions; through learning by doing, students can accumulate experience, expand their horizons, and break away from the framework. The College of Digital Design has always taken humanities, technology, and creativity together as the direction of education. It has demonstrated the hard work of students with excellent designs of innovation, aesthetics, and cultural literacy. With the graduation works of the College of Digital Design this year, the outstanding performance of the students has proved to be very successful and has confirmed that the college’s cultivation is absolutely correct. This year many groups of student works participated in and were shortlisted for the new generation design exhibition. The 2021 Golden Point Rookie Design Award final review was changed to online selection. The final award will be announced at the award ceremony. Let us look forward to the performances of the works of the College of Digital Design at STUST!