The 21st kW Design Award organized by Taiwan Power Company (TPC) aims to encourage the integration of creativity into issues related to the electric power industry. With a total prize pool of NTD $80,500 awarded and no registration fee, TPC challenges you to express your innovative spirit upon your understanding of the overall industry. 

 [ Competition Categories]

• Graphic Design - Poster

• Creative Short Video

• Creative Product Design

1. Eligibility

• You can participate individually or as a group (limited to 5 members).

• When registered as a group, only one person needs to submit the work. In the application, please provide the main correspondent’s and group members’ information.  

• There is no limit on the number of works each group/individual can submit. 

• Graphic Design - Poster and Creative Short Video categories: 

  • Student team: all students in Taiwan (including but not limited to those pursuing high school/doctor degree, attending vocational school, and international students in Taiwan)

  • Professional team: applicants must be at least 20 years of age without student status, holding the national identification card of Taiwan 

• Creative Product Design category: 

  • Any student or professional holding the national identification card of Taiwan

2. Themes

• Graphic Design - Poster and Creative Short Video categories: 

  • Renewable energy: such as solar energy, biomass energy, geothermal energy, and micro-hydroelectric power 

  • Environmental sustainability: As the demand for energy increases and development of energy sources grows diverse, TPC has a higher demand for different natural resources. Proper control of the use of raw materials, limitation of emission, and necessary adjustments to transportation vehicles can elevate energy efficiency and foster balance between the country, society, citizens, and subsequent environmental impact. Beside this, reference 《TPC 2020 Sustainability Report》Chapter 3 Environmental Sustainability (P.78 ~ 99) as inspiration. 

• Creative Product Design category: 

  • Any facility, equipment, or tools related to TPC can be design concepts, including but not limited to utility pole, vehicles, transformer box, work helmet, water turbine or other equipment used for power generation/transmission system. 

  • Develop creative and useful TPC promotional gifts by integrating TPC corporation identification elements like brand image into the design. No limit to the type of design product. 

  • Freedom to choose any appropriate theme.

  • Should be high-quality in terms of innovation, aesthetics, functions, and material, and able to be mass produced.

3. Application & Submission

• Please register online through the official site after reading additional notices. 

• Works should be original, and should not have been published or submitted in other competitions. 

• Graphic Design - Poster:

  • A1 size poster in digital file (594 * 841 mm in size、1684 * 2384 pixel、resolution 72 dpi、file size within 5MB）

  • File format: JPG file、RGB color model. 

  • Ｗorks can be made digitally or hand-drawn, landscape or portrait-oriented. 

  • Works should contain a TPC logo (https://pse.is/38ktr6). 

  • For awarded works, please provide the original layered file and a file (CMYK, resolution above 300 dpi) for export.

• Creative Short Video: 

  • Video should be 15 seconds - 1 minutes. 

  • No restriction on shooting equipment and forms of the work. Animation and digital audiovisual are both acceptable. 

  • Works should be uploaded on Youtube as unlisted videos, and please make the embed option available. 

  • The title of Youtube videos should be “The title of your work+ 瓩設計獎kW Design Award─第21屆創意競賽”.

  • Resolutions should be above 1280*720, and the files should be in the formats that can be uploaded to Youtube (including AVI/MOV/MPG, etc). 

  • Works should embed the Taiwan Power Company’s logo. Please don’t alter its width-to-height ratio. File link: logo_link

  • The video length is based on the one uploaded on Youtube. Excessive length will affect your qualification. 

  • To keep the competition fair, participants’ information shouldn’t be included in the videos (name, school, studio, etc). 

  • Please mainly use Mandarin if there is narration or caption, and legally get copyrights permission for music used. 

• Creative Product Design:

  • Mainly designed as TPC promotional gifts

  • Provide colored three-dimensional diagram (showing product appearance and attributes)

  • Provide colored three-view diagram (showing product size and proportions)

  • File format: JPG/PNG file、1191*842 pixel mm in size 、resolution 72 dpi、file size within 5MB)

  • Ｗorks can be made digitally or hand-drawn, landscape or portrait-oriented. No limit on the work except file format. 

  • Please keep the original file.  

4. Timeline

• Application Opens: 2020/09/25 13:00 - 2021/03/10 13:00 (TST)

• Announcement of Preliminary Selection Result: 2021/04/07 

• Popular Vote: 2021/4/7 13:00 - 2021/5/11 13:00 

• Announcement of Award Winners: 2021/05/22 

• Award Ceremony: 2021/5/22 (subject to change and will be announced by TPC)

5. Prizes & Benefits

• Graphic Design - Poster and Creative Short Video both have: 

  • Student team

    • 1st place: NTD $ 60,000 (+ 4A Advertising Company paid internship for the Graphic Design category)  

    • 2nd place: NTD $ 40,000 

    • 3rd place: NTD $ 20,000 

    • 5 Distinction Awards: NTD $ 5,000 

    • Eight advisors: certificates

  • Professional team

    • 1st place: NTD $ 80,000  

    • 2nd place: NTD $ 50,000 

    • 3rd place:  NTD $ 30,000 

    • 5 Distinction Awards: NTD $ 5,000 

• Creative Product Design:

  • Professional team

    • 1st place: NTD $ 60,000 

    • 2nd place: NTD $ 40,000  

    • 3rd place:  NTD $ 20,000 

    • 5 Distinction Awards: NTD $ 5,000 

• All award recipients (except advisors) listed above will receive trophies

• Popular Vote Award (1 contestant from each student team): a Gopro HERO7 White & 7-11 NTD $1000 gift card

6. Fees

• No registration fee required

• Award recipients will be in charge of fees needed for arrival at the award ceremony 

7. Evaluation Criteria

 [ Additional notices ]

• We recommend entrants to submit your work at least a day before the deadline, as submission time depends on the time received by the website backend system. You will receive a confirmation email upon successful submission.

• When the entrant cannot successfully apply/upload due to the site's issues, please apply by sending your work and a screenshot of the issue to [email protected] (submission time depends on the time received by TPC). 

• The email above only accepts applications when the entrant cannot successfully upload the work due to the site’s issues. TPC accepts no responsibility if you don’t notify us of the problem and send your application through the email before the registration deadline. 

• When the work involves third party’s works/rights, the contestant should receive the owner’s acceptance or such work’s authorization to be used by TPC through the contestant’s work. TPC bears no legal responsibility for any such breach. 

• Award winners should agree to assign the ownership rights and intellectual property rights of the winning design to TPC and sign [Assignment of Intellectual Property Rights and Authorization of Portraits Agreement].

• ** Please read other notes section [注意事項] of the official website before you apply