Anyone currently residing in Taipei knows that there is a design expo in town. City buses, metro stations, and, in some cases, entire buildings are plastered with advertisements for the event, and the odd multi-headed, multi-legged, poop-like mascot (see below) has been popping up everywhere. So on Monday I decided to head into the den of this very peculiar beast: I hopped on the metro and bee-bopped over to the Songshan Cultural & Creative Park to see what all the fuss was about.
And I was quite delighted that I had. Once there, I was expo-sed (sub-par pun intended) to design of all forms: industrial, interior, graphic, you name it. But my favorite designs were of the product variety. Some of my top picks are below, but if you’re in town, you really should check it out for yourself before the expo exp(o)ires on October 30.