Visual Planning Design
Brand strategy, advertising, copywriting and marketing—learn to solve business problems with design.
Red Dot: Best of the BestHunting in the Mountains山有狩 · 2026 · Editorial & Books
Department & Graduate Institute of Visual Communication Design · CUTe · Taiwan
Turn your ideas
into design the world sees.
We train visual communication designers who can think, make and deliver—from brand strategy and packaging to books, motion graphics and digital media. Study in Taipei or Hsinchu, work on real projects, and compete on the international stage.
137Red Dot Awardswon by our students, 2017–2026
No.5Young Ones ADC 2026global school ranking, New York
22Full-time facultydesigners, researchers and industry experts
2CampusesTaipei & Hsinchu, Taiwan
Why study design at CUTe?
Practical, award-winning and connected to industry
01
Learn by doing
Our department is designed as a “pre-employment training base”: studio courses, small mentor groups of 3–7 students and real client briefs every year.
02
Award-winning work
Students have won 137 Red Dot awards since 2017, including six “Best of the Best”, plus Young Ones ADC, K-Design and Golden Pin awards.
03
Industry connections
Industry experts co-teach courses. Summer and full-year internships place students in agencies, studios, media companies and brands.
04
Two campuses
Taipei offers the energy of the capital’s creative industries; Hsinchu offers Hakka culture, local materials and craft workshops.
Three professional modules
Build your foundation in years 1–2, then choose your focus
Digital Imaging Design
Photography, motion graphics, video and post-production—make your work move.
Cross-disciplinary Cultural & Creative Design
Materials, bookbinding, craft workshops and product development—turn cultural ideas into real objects.
Red Dot: Best of the Best
The highest honor of the Red Dot Award: Brand & Communication Design
2026 · Editorial & Books
Hunting in the Mountains
山有狩
- Red Dot: Best of the Best
- Young Ones ADC Bronze
- Young Ones ADC Merit ×2
2025 · Packaging
Sweet Potato Living – A Gift from the Land
藷式生活
- Red Dot: Best of the Best
- Red Dot
- Young Ones ADC Bronze
2024 · Editorial & Books
Tribal Translator – Shaman Culture of Taiwan’s Indigenous Taroko Tribe
部落譯者
- Red Dot: Best of the Best
- K-Design Grand Prize
- Young Ones ADC Bronze
2024 · Packaging
Island Hideaway
島嶼覓境
- Red Dot: Best of the Best
- Young Ones ADC Merit
- K-Design Winner
2023 · Editorial & Books
Dashan Hawan
大山刃物
- Red Dot: Best of the Best
- Red Dot
- Taiwan International Student Design Competition, Gold
2019 · Illustration
Would You Give Me Your Grandma?
把你的阿嬤送給我好不好
- Red Dot: Best of the Best
11 featured labs
Hands-on spaces on both campuses—from clay and lasers to Figma and low-carbon packaging
See us in 3 minutes
Videos about our department, awards and teachers (in Mandarin; turn on YouTube auto-translated captions)