TCID

TCID, also known as Tang-Cao Design, is an industrial design company founded in 2000 in Tainan, Taiwan. Its team combines mechanical engineering, industrial design, graphic design, spatial planning and exhibition curation, and works from a single starting point: a product has to answer a real human need before it answers a market brief.

Over more than two decades the studio has built an integrated approach that holds market strategy, visual aesthetics and manufacturing feasibility together, so that a proposal can travel from first sketch to series production. Projects range from medical devices and home appliances to stationery and cultural exhibitions, and the work has been recognised with iF, Red Dot, IDEA and Golden Pin awards, including a Golden Pin Best of the Year for the One Shake salt and pepper shaker.