2008 Taiwan Designers' Week shows potential of innovations

Monday, June 30, 2008

Vastly different from the YODEX, mainly focused on students' designs, the 2008 2nd Taiwan Designers' Week, a collective show organized by Taiwan Designers' Web for industrial designs and individual design studios, took place at the Xinyi Public Assembly Hall, formally known as "Si-Si Nan Cun (in Chinese: 四四南村)" and entitled the theme of "Design & Beyond".

This professional exhibition featured topical designs including "Play with the Eating Culture", "Wall", "The Story of Paper-Cutting", "Basket", "Between On and Off", "50 Pleasures in the Study - Dian Shin Refreshment 2008", "Reincarnation", and "NoName Design", at Xinyi Public Assembly Hall; "City Yeast 2008･Balcony Project" at Xue Xue Institute from June 26th to July 8th; "Having A Perfect Life Is Easy" at Taipei Artist Village from June 27th to July 7th. In addition, The XRANGE Studio also created a giant floating cloud at Central Square of Xinyi Public Assembly Hall.

Innovative designs in this exhibition showcased different topical elements on environment, modern lifestyle, current incident, and subculture. Those reflect the achievements by professional designers in Taiwan as Taiwan's designs were affirmed in several international design competitions including G-mark, Red Dot, and iF.

After this exhibition, Taiwan Design Center, the show co-organizer, scheduled several upcoming competitions and shows from this August to October including "Taiwan Design Expo", "Taiwan Design Award", "Taiwan International Design Competition", and "Creative Taiwan".

Image Highlights

Press Conference of 2008 Taiwan Designers' Week.
Image: Rico Shen.
A food brand image gate of "Cha Li Won" by Uni-President Co., Ltd.
Image: Rico Shen.
A Starbucks Coffee Car. Image: Rico Shen.

A Starbucks Coffee Car.
Image: Rico Shen.
Basket: My Meal.
Image: Rico Shen.

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Press Release: "Introducing +250 Designers, Unveiling +250 Works, Design and beyond - Taiwan Designers' Week 2008" — Taiwan Designers' Web, June 27, 2008

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