Taipei City Government in collaboration with several sponsors is currently hosting the 2012 Taipei International Digital Content Awards and inviting digital content creators around the world to take part in the competition.
Entries may depicts Taipei’s life and culture, distinguishing features and development of the city, but that’s not obligatory as the competition has a second, Open theme category.
The 2012 Taipei International Digital Content Awards competition has a huge prize fund of $50,000!
Shaping Taipei As A Design Capital
This competition is organized to encourage digital content creators in Taipei to generate creative, international, and marketable digital products to shape Taipei as a design capital. By holding international competitions, this project seeks to select outstanding creative works, raise the quality of the creations, and develop marketable products with the ultimate aim of stimulating the development of the digital content industry.
Anyone around the world interested in digital content design may enter with original creative work, published or not, created after June 2010.
This competition has two themes as described below:
- Images of Taipei: entry depicts Taipei’s life and culture, distinguishing features and development of the city.
- Open theme, free of choice. Examples include cultural features, lifestyle, environmental protection and green energy, sustainable management, education, virtual reality, entertainment, etc.
The prize fund is huge: $50,000, $10,000 of which are reserved for the winner of the Grand Prix Prize. In addition to monetary awards, Grand prix, Gold Award, Silver Award, Bronze Award winners will also receive trophies and certificates.
Please visit the official website, if you like to know more about specific requirements, awards and regulations.