The Announcement of " Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2006 "

The second " Taiwan International Poster Design Award" was sponsored by Department of Commerce, MOEA and endorsed by ICOGRADA and JAGDA, which received more than 1,265 submitted works came from 31 different countries and areas by the deadline.

We invited 7 international and 3 Taiwan local judges to proceed judging works on 25^th Sept, who including Melchior Imboden (Switzerland, Graphic Atelier Imboden, winner of the Icograda Excellence Award  at the 2005 Taiwan International Poster Design Award), Dave Mason (Canada, Samata Mason Design Inc.), Kirti Trivedi (India, considered an Indian design authority, designer of the the Gandhi Museum), Pat Hansen (USA, Principal Hansen Design Company), Xavier Bermudez（Mexico, Matatena Visual Studio）, Shigeo Fukuda (Japan, President of JAGDA, AGI Member), Maria Kurpik（Poland, Poster Museum in Wilanow）, Apex Lin,Pang-soong (Taiwan, Director of Fine Art, National Taiwan Normal University,ICOGRADA Treasurer 2001~2003), Ming-shean Wang （Taiwan, Pre-President of National Taiwan University of Arts.）, Michael Dee（Taiwan, Executive Creative Director of DDB）

There are 22 awards and 86 final selected from 1,265 works with high quality and creativity, which including Grand Prize、ICOGRADA Excellence Award、JAGDA Excellence Award、 Gold/ Silver/ Bronze medal for open category（1.Commercial,  2.Promotional） /Special theme（Sport, Sunshine, and Health） and Judges’ Special Award. The name of awarded and final selected are as following：