These are in-depth pre- and post-show reports on major international trade fairs, held in Taiwan and other countries with significant participation by Taiwanese manufacturers and exporters. They are offered to help global buyers and other readers better understand what is going on at the fairs and the latest offerings by Taiwanese exhibitors.
By QUINCY LIANG Lite-On Group, a leading information technology (IT) conglomerate based in Taiwan, recently announced the winners of the 8th "Lite-On Awards." The Lite-On Awards, a major-scale industrial design award event in the Chinese-speaking circle, has been drawing increasing response and attention among both academic and professional designers in Greater China. Over 1,600 designs wo...
Besides turning in solid performances in global industrial design contests in the last few years, Taiwan again showed the international design community that its prowess reaches beyond product creation and innovation-winning a gold award among the 16 prizes at the iF Communication Design Awards 2008. J.M. Lin, a locally-famous architect, led the Observer Design Group to create a communication...
Taiwan has traditionally been known as a follower in wireless technology-a position that once consigned it to a peripheral role in mobile-technology forums and the base-station equipment market. With the rise of the WiMAX era, however, Taiwan's wireless communications sector is finally taking center stage. WiMAX Forum President Ron Resnick describes WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for M...
Tony Chang, CEO of the national Taiwan Design Center (TDC), has a clear vision of how the island can play a more important role on the world's design stage. In fact Taiwan is already No. 2 in Asia in this field, after only Japan. The TDC serves as an integrated platform that offers a comprehensive range of services to the creative design industry. At home, it combines the efforts of academ...
Roger Lin, chief designer at Nova Design in Taipei, recently gave an exclusive interview to Taiwan's China Economics News Service (CENS), a leading trade-oriented media covering various markets and the publisher of DIT (Design & Innovation in Taiwan) magazine. Delivering a savvy combination of globally-sensitive expertise and locally-bred experience, Nova Design Co., Ltd. of Taiwan, the ...
The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the semi-state-run trade promotion body, announced on May 23rd at a gala ceremony in Taipei the winners' list of Taiwan Excellence, consisting of the eight gold and 21 silver medal winners. Every year since 1993, Taiwan Excellence honors the most innovative and top-quality products developed, designed or produced in Taiwan with the covet...
The Council for Cultural Affairs (CCA) of Executive Yuan (the Cabinet) recently announced the winners of the first-ever WOW! Taiwan Design Competition, held during the 27th Young Designers' Exhibition (YODEX 2008) running May 15-18. The CCA noted that it organized WOW! Taiwan with the aim of urging the general public to pay more attention to culture and to culture-related products. To enco...
The winners of the 8th Young Designers' Competition (YODC 2008), the largest design competition for students in Taiwan, were announced in mid-May during the 27th Young Designers` Exhibition (YODEX 2008), the world's largest design fair for the academic community. YODC 2008 is sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and 39 private companies, as well as co-organized by the Good Des...
The 27th Young Designers' Exhibition (YODEX 2008), the world's largest non-professional design fair, was successfully held, at unprecedented scale, from May 15 to 18 at the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC) Exhibition Hall 1, according to organizer Taiwan Design Center (TDC), a national design center on the island. YODEX 2008 featured a variety of creations by young graduates from design sc...
Wang Pai-por, director general, Department of Commerce (DOT) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), recently visited Taiwan-based China Economics News Service (CENS), the publisher of the DIT (Design & Innovation in Taiwan) magazine as well as a 34-year veteran in trade-promotional media, publishing in print and online news and supplier information targeting the automotive, motorcycle, machi...
