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Fundesign.tv Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for TECO Endorser Advertisement in Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design
Fundesign.tv honored for advertising, marketing and communication design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that TECO Endorser Advertisement by Fundesign.tv, designed for Teco, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About TECO Endorser Advertisement
TECO Endorser is an advertising campaign created for a Taiwanese home appliance brand. The campaign features the baseball player Chen Chieh-hsien, known as Captain Taiwan, as the brand ambassador. High-end commercial photography combines sports lighting with home appliance aesthetics. Deliverables include two television commercials, four short videos for social media and more than 500 high-resolution master images, adapted for print and digital formats. The aim is to connect the brand heritage with younger audiences.
About Fundesign.tv
The Taipei-based media platform has devoted itself to curating design and art exhibitions, artistic creativity development, and cross-cultural exchange since 2012. Conceptual development, exhibition planning, exhibition, event production, event management, artistic marketing, and media resources integration are some of their services.
Award Record
With this recognition, Fundesign.tv is a winner of 9 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2019 - 2020 and the 2025 - 2026 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design Award
The A' Advertising Design Award is an international advertising design competition recognizing good advertisement designs by designers and agencies worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to advertising designers, marketing professionals, communication designers and creative directors from all countries. Typical entries include advertisement campaigns, billboards, commercials, print ads, social media campaigns and direct mails. The awarded advertising designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/advertising
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/182343
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/182343
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!182343
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/267947
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.tecohome.com.tw/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- TECO Endorser Advertisement
- Function
- Advertisement
- Category
- Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising
- Colors
- Indian Red, Dark Gray, Sienna, Saddle Brown and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Teco
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Fundesign.tv
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #182343
Credits
- Team
- Carrie Chang, SK Chen, Simon Wang, Kidensha, Hank Su and Oliver Zhu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This campaign marks the historic inaugural endorsement for Teco, a legacy Taiwanese appliance leader, featuring icon Chen Chieh-hsien. By leveraging Chen’s persona as Captain Taiwan, the design synthesizes Teco’s authority with national unity. Unlike standard ads, this strategy positions the brand as the embodiment of Taiwanese resilience. It bridges generations, aligning reliability with our national sport’s determination, cementing Teco’s identity as the definitive indigenous champion.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration stems from Taiwan’s profound cultural unity during national baseball tournaments. Our research indicated that modernizing a legacy brand like Teco required emotional resonance, not just technical promotion. We sought a figure embodying resilience and leadership. Motivated by this, we selected Captain Taiwan, Chen Chieh-hsien. His unwavering dedication perfectly mirrors Teco’s heritage of durable engineering and its enduring status as the domestic market leader.
- Research
- Qualitative trend analysis via social listening was utilized to modernize Teco. Results showed Taiwan's historic Premier12 victory made MVP Captain Chen a symbol of resilience. The key insight revealed his "Taiwan Value" perfectly aligns with Teco. Ultimately, this endorsement bridged generational gaps, rejuvenated Teco's legacy image, and set a new standard for sports marketing.
- Challenge
- The core challenge was uniting two demographics: Teco’s traditional 35 to 60 family base and a 28 to 34 trend-conscious generation. Internally, we had to overcome the brand's aging historical perception. Externally, we leveraged Captain Taiwan Chen Chieh-hsien's immense social influence. The obstacle was translating his Taiwan Value—resilience and national unity—into a cohesive narrative that modernizes Teco’s image without alienating its loyal users, merging legacy with modern appeal.
- Realization and Technology
- They utilized brand archetyping and semiotic analysis to decode Teco’s legacy and Chen's Captain Taiwan persona. The creative methodology centered on cultural anchoring, transforming abstract national resilience into a concrete visual rhetoric. Their key visual synthesis involved high-end commercial photography, integrating dynamic sports lighting with sleek home appliance aesthetics. This overarching narrative was systematically adapted into an omnichannel matrix.
- Operation and Interaction
- They executed a three-tier omni-channel strategy. Air operations used TVCs and social platforms to capture the younger, trend-focused demographic. Ground operations revitalized physical retail with immersive in-store materials, directly interacting with traditional family buyers. This culminated in a major ambassador event uniting dealers and VIPs. This seamless online-to-offline loop transforms passive viewing into active engagement, maximizing cross-generational market penetration.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in February 2025 and finished in January 2026 in Taiwan.
- Specifications
- As a non-physical multimedia campaign, the technical deliverables encompass 2 broadcast-quality TV commercials and 4 short videos optimized for social media algorithms. The visual production scale includes over 500 high-resolution master images. These graphical assets were technically adapted across various aspect ratios and color profiles, CMYK for print/POSM, RGB for digital web, to ensure seamless cross-platform integration and strictly consistent brand identity.
- Keywords
- Teco, Taiwan, Baseball, Home Appliances, Brand Ambassador, Commercial Production, Visual Communication Design
