The 2025 Golden Pin Design Award Exhibition opened on November 25 at the Taiwan Design Museum in Taipei’s Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, showcasing more than one hundred award-winning works from this year’s Golden Pin Design Award and Golden Pin Concept Design Award. Curated by hidden-domain studio, the exhibition centers on the theme “The Spectrum of Scale,” inviting visitors to explore contemporary design through both the professional lens of the jury and a series of perceptual scales. The exhibition runs through April 26, 2026, welcoming design enthusiasts to experience this year’s outstanding works in person.

The Golden Pin Design Award is Taiwan’s longest-standing and most influential design accolade. Since its international expansion in 2014, more than half of its entries have come from overseas, and its global jury lineup continues to strengthen the award’s credibility and professional standing. The annual Golden Pin Design Award Exhibition, curated by a professional team, presents the year’s most outstanding works and offers the public a comprehensive view of design excellence from around the world.

　

　

A New Lens for Reading Award-Winning Design

　

This year’s curatorial team began with the award’s five evaluation criteria—Integration, Innovativeness, Functionality, Aesthetics, and Communication—and translated jury observations for each winning work into radar charts that visually map its performance across these dimensions. These charts, paired with excerpts from jury comments, allow visitors to intuitively understand the strengths that set each project apart. The exhibition also brings together the distinct interpretations of these five criteria from jurors across the Product, Communication, Spatial, and Integration Design categories, offering visitors deeper insight into this year’s evaluation perspectives.

The curatorial team further extends the exhibition through three perceptual scales—Weight, Presence, and Tempo—inviting visitors to interpret the works in relation to one another. In the Scale of Weight (Venue 01), some projects carry significant social or functional responsibility, while others respond to daily life with lightness and ease. The Scale of Presence (Venue 02) contrasts works that create broad impact through subtle changes with those that explore detail within a grander scope. In the Scale of Tempo (Venue 04), certain works address immediate needs of the moment, while others reveal power that emerges over time.

　

The exhibition also highlights how jurors across Product, Communication, Spatial, and Integration Design interpret the award’s five criteria—offering insight into this year’s evaluation perspectives.

 

This year’s exhibition visualizes jury feedback through radar charts, helping visitors quickly grasp each work’s strengths.

　　

By placing jury perspectives alongside these perceptual scales, the exhibition constructs a multi-layered framework for understanding award-winning design and encourages visitors to reflect on its diverse values. To visualize the theme “The Spectrum of Scale,” the visual identity team Path & Landform draws on the imagery of a star-filled sky—suggesting that each work is a point of light in the design cosmos, forming a radiant constellation within the Golden Pin Design Award.

　　

Venue 01｜The Scale of Weight explores “weight” as a measure of meaning in design.

 

Venue 01｜The Scale of Weight features an interactive zone where visitors can touch and experience the works—feeling not only their physical weight but also the care embedded in each design.

 

Venue 02｜The Scale of Presence highlights how design manifests and impacts across different scales through contrast.

 

Venue 02｜From individuals to communities, and from objects to spaces, the Scale of Presence shows how design responds to the world across different scales.

 

Venue 04｜The Scale of Tempo contrasts works to reveal how design interacts with time.

 

Venue 04｜In the Scale of Tempo, some works address immediate needs, while others reveal strength over time.

　

More Featured Works of the Exhibition

　

The exhibition also highlights the innovative momentum of Taiwan’s industries. Featured works include PEGATRON’s “Alloy,” a finely crafted body shaver designed for women; Chiayo Electronics’ “Multifunctional Wireless Lectern PA System,” which integrates a PA system and lectern into a single, streamlined unit; Tsang Yu Industrial’s “Merrylock MK6070 Household Air-threading Combo Sewing Machine,” designed to make professional-quality sewing intuitive even for non-experts; and ASUS’s “ROG Falcata Wireless Gaming Keyboard,” built for seamless transition between gaming and everyday use.

Outstanding international entries add further depth to the exhibition, such as Sonnenglas GmbH’s “Sonnenglas® SOMO Solar Lighting System” from Germany, Exploratory Projects’ “KAY Chair” from the Philippines; Kunakij Industry Furniture’s “Knot Stool” from Thailand, which transforms industrial materials into a strikingly lightweight form through an inventive structural approach; and TROXUS’s high-performance road bike “ARIA” from the United States. Together, these works create a compelling dialogue between Taiwanese and global design excellence.

　

　

Exhibition Details and Upcoming Ceremony

　　

The 2025 Golden Pin Design Award Exhibition is now open at the Taiwan Design Museum and will run until April 26, 2026, inviting the public to explore innovative design and experience creativity up close.

In addition, the 2025 Golden Pin Design Award Ceremony will take place on Friday, December 5, at the Taipei Performing Arts Center, where the winners of the Best Design of the Year and the Special Annual Awards—the highest honors of the award—will be officially announced. The ceremony will be livestreamed in both Chinese and English on the official YouTube channel. Design enthusiasts are warmly invited to tune in and witness the celebration.

　　　

　　　

Exhibition Info.

Date｜2025.11.25 (Tue.) - 2026.04.26 (Sun.) (Closed on Mondays)
Opening Hours｜10:00 - 18:00
Venue｜Hall 01, 02 & 04, Taiwan Design Museum
Ticket Price｜NT 50 (Full Ticket) / NT 40 (Group Ticket) / Free for those who qualify for discount tickets
Organizer｜Industrial Development Administration (IDA), MOEA
Execution｜Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI)
Curation｜hidden-domain studio
Visual Design｜Path & Landform