NTUST’s student won the 2013 :output International Student Award

    NTUST’s student Kuo Hsien-Chu won the 2013 :output International Student Award with her work “Future History Post”, a daily planner printed with positive and encouraging history.

    Kuo is a graduate student of Department of Industrial and Commercial Design from NTUST. She found that, throughout the history, the negative news was recorded much more than positive ones. She was inspired to collect the positive news history from medical contribution to biological dedication and create a work out of kindness “Future History Post”. She finally won the 2013 :output International Student Award.

    This year is the 16th the :output International Student Award. More than 800 students from more than 45 different countries submitted their best projects to the competition. A jury of international renowned designers and professors made a selection and announced the winners. 78 projects, including Kuo’s “Future History Post” and other three projects from Taiwanese students, were selected to be granted the awards.

    Kuo surprisingly found that among all of the historical news and anniversaries recorded by Wikipedia, negative history such as wars and social issues are for the most part instead of positive ones. She was then inspired to break through the sensational way in which media are used to reporting, hoping to create a notebook out of kindness.

    The awarded work was a daily planner with 356 important issues cited from Wikipedia, from the medicine, science, biology, to arts and archeology, including the anniversary of the discovery and excavation of Qin's Terra-cotta Army, the first adult heart transplant being performed, NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space done by Neil Armstrong, and the birthdays of the inventor Thomas Edison, the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, and other great men.

    According to Kuo, writing journals is like recording history of individuals. It gives us a chance to write down our future history posts. The Future history post reminds us of the positive history and helps us write dream posts of our own. “Future history post is not just an ordinary notepad with the calendar function. Future history post breaks the past rule of newspaper and links ‘Past’, ‘Present’ and ‘Future’. It reserves space for users to write down their news. At the same time, it gives history a future.” Kuo said.

Kuo Hsien-Chu, a graduate student of Department of Industrial and Commercial Design from NTUST was awarded the 2013 The :output International Student Award.