The "Square-Circle Exchange" team from the Department of Visual Communication Design, STUST, recently won the WINNER Award in the Communication Design Category of the 2021 K-Design Award in Korea. The K-Design Award in Korea is among the leaders of the three design awards in Asia. Initiated by South Korea, the K-Design Award is an important international award, which realizes creativity through excellent design. K-Design pays attention to the value of the actual market. The evaluation panel was composed of experts and senior lecturers from different nations, such as South Korea, China, the United States, Japan, New Zealand, Italy, and the Philippines. The evaluation was conducted by experts with international perspectives to select design plans with ideals and creativity.

[The "Square-Circle Exchange" team from the Department of Visual Communication Design, STUST, recently won the WINNER Award in the Communication Design Category of the 2021 K-Design Award in Korea.]

In 2021, K-Design Award received 3,087 entries from 26 countries around the world, of which 315 designs were selected as winners. Students of the project team—Wen-Yi Li, Ching-Yi Lu, Pin-Xuan Chen, and Yi-Han Chen—directed by Prof. Chong-Ren Chen, won the 2021 K-DESIGN AWARD Communication Winners in the Communication Design Category of the K-Design Award in Korea.

[The work of the student team "Square-Circle Exchange" from the Department of Visual Communication Design, STUST.]

The "Square-Circle Exchange" team of the Department of Visual Communication Design, STUST, took the beauty of Taiwan as their theme, and integrating the elements of Taiwan’s nature, culture, and sentiments together in its design a series of new versions of Taiwanese currency, which show different values according to different currency values. Their work gives money the functions of "collecting value" and "delivering blessings." The design team believes that "transactions" are closely related to human life, and each transaction carries a different story. Nowadays, virtual currency is gradually rising. There remains only a simple digital concept behind currency, without any story and sensibility. Therefore, the design team hopes to design a currency with Taiwanese culture and its warmth, so that physical currency can continue to survive in its new form in the future.

Deng-Maw Lu, President of STUST, said that in recent years, STUST has performed well in many design competitions at home and abroad. In the future, STUST will continue to train students into world-class talents and continue to shine in the global arena.