This year’s Creative Expo Taiwan aims to showcase Taiwanese brands and help them gain international recognition, the Ministry of Culture said.
The annual expo has been held since 2010 to provide cultural creative merchandise and service trade platforms, and to bridge the gap between production, sales and distribution, the ministry said.
The ministry has invited Chen Chun-liang (陳俊良), chairman of the Taiwanese design company Freeimage Design, to act as the expo’s chief curator, and overseas experts — including Kiriyama Trunk from Japan, Jimmy MacDonald from the UK and Morten Gron from Denmark — to serve as co-curators, Minister of Culture Hung Meng-chi (洪孟啟) said.
With the main theme of “Savoring the Rich Eastern Culture,” the expo is to showcase products from Taiwanese enterprises in three categories — craft design, cultural and creative design — and branding agencies at three venues: Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, and the Expo Dome at the Taipei Expo Park, he added.
The expo is also to feature a Cultural and Creative Trend Forum, a gathering of cultural and creative masters, trend observers and business elites to enrich the knowledge of Taiwan’s cultural and creative industries, Hung said.
It is to host activities by more than 150 stores, such as creative bookstores, coffee shops, restaurants, exhibition and performance spaces, and design studios, which are to set up a system of “fringe shops” to exhibit the city’s lifestyle and promote Chinese cultural creative industry trends, he said.
The organizers have set up Talent 100, an exhibition space in the Expo Dome, where 100 designers are to showcase their works in six categories — illustration, caricature, animation, photography, game production and action figure design, he added.
The expo is to be held from tomorrow to Sunday in Taipei.
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