GradComD Student Wins Gold

Among the 172 participants, only 24 potential students were chosen. From that group, Cynthia Douaiher and her partner Guan Pei Xuan received the top prize.

GradComD student Cynthia Douaiher and her partner Guan Pei Xuan have won Gold in Taiwan while participating in the “New Wave, Cultural Gene Transfer” and “ADA (Asia Design Alliance)” workshops. Their work includes a book and a poster that present an infographic in four languages that captures the dynamic of their relationship.

Cynthia Douaiher poster

[The infographic] represents breaking cultural shock through the coming together of me and my partner and how we shared the experience of Taiwan together... our energy, our paths, our differences and our meeting point and the center of it all, our soul.

-CYNTHIA DOUAIHER

Among the 172 participants, only 24 potential students were chosen. From that group, Douaiher and Xuan received the top prize.

Jointly organized by Commatrix and the Department of Industrial and Commercial Design of NTUST, one of the characteristics of the workshop is that Taiwanese students cooperate with international students to design international pieces for the local scale. The organizer invites judges composed of international guests to choose gold, silver, bronze and honorable mention of industrial design group and commercial design group respectively.

The poster can also be found on Douahier's Bēhance.

The official news story can be found here.