Taiwan Region Student Design Competition

2025

Taiwan Competition now closed

The 2025 Real Leather. Stay Different. Student Design Competition – Taiwan concluded today with a vibrant Awards Ceremony at Hana Space, Taipei, celebrating creativity, craftsmanship, and sustainable design thinking. 

Co-organized by the Leather & Hide Council of America (L&HCA), the Taiwanese International Leather Association (TILA), and the Taiwan Regional Association of Tanneries, the competition attracted 268 submissions across four categories: Apparel, Accessories, Design, and Footwear. After preliminary judging in May, 19 finalists developed prototypes for the final showcase on August 29. 

The jury remarked that this year’s competition showcased a wide diversity of proposals and sophisticated craftsmanship, with some projects demonstrating strong commercial potential worthy of patent registration. Congratulations to this years Overall Winner who was crowned at the event, Ruo Yi Wu: Pressure Lines Between Head and Shoulders who was also this years People’s Choice Award Winner.

Apparel 

You Jia Fu: Re: Collected — A Reconstructed Second Skin 

Shang Hsuan Tsai: Different Love 

Yu Ting Shen: HumanGod 

Yung-Chu Tu: Skin That Remember

Shao Bo Yang: Topology of Illustrator 

Accessories 

Ruo Yi Wu: Pressure Lines Between Head and Shoulders 

Yi Fu Chen: Social Protection Device 

Te Fan Liu: Soft Hours 

Yin Yu Chen: Skin and Bone 

Yen Chieh Liu: The Ten Minutes After Class 

Footwear  

Zong Nan Chen: Urban Module 

Yu Ching Cheng: The Walking Table 

Yi Shiuan Hsu: One Pair, Infinite Faces 

Tsai Ju Hsiao: Firewalk to the Heavens 

Po Yu Lin: Re: act 

Design 

He Yu Shao: SymBridle 

Yu Kai Chen: PELLITENSIO – Rawhide Tension Sculptural Lighting 

Ting Yi Ai: Leather in Tension, Light in Motion 

Yu Kai Chen: PELLINFLATUS-Rawhide Expansion Sculpture Furniture 

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