FEMCO Museum, a 2022 iF Design Award Winner, Joins the iF Chiayi Design Exhibition

“The iF Chiayi Design Exhibition shows the creative energy of a small city with big ideas!” For the 70th anniversary of the iF Design Award, besides a major celebration in Taipei, the organizers were invited by the Chiayi City Government to bring more than a hundred award-winning products, packaging, communication, interior and architecture projects from Taiwan and abroad to the Chiayi Municipal Museum. Following the 2021 Taiwan Design Expo, it is another major exhibition in Chiayi in partnership with the German iF Design Award, known as the Oscars of design. Mayor Huang Min-hui attended the opening ceremony in the afternoon.

Organized by iF International Forum Design GmbH in Germany, the iF Design Award is one of the oldest and most important design competitions in the world. The exhibition introduces its 70-year history and maps 120 Taiwanese award-winning public interiors and architecture projects from 2022 and 2023 on Google Maps, so visitors can save every location with one click and visit award-winning cafés and restaurants afterwards.

Also on show, fresh from Germany, are 50 award-winning lifestyle products, packaging and communication designs making their debut, plus a special section of ten winning projects from Chiayi City, covering exhibition spaces, interior design, public works, brand identity, restaurants and cafés. They include the FEMCO Machinery Memorial Museum; the Jiabei Elementary School ACR concert hall aesthetics program; St. Paul Bakery Garden’s experience center; the Eslite pop-up store at the Chiayi Art Museum & Showa J11 Café; CASA bar; an experimental timber yard; the Alishan Forest Railway; the “Bamboo Forest Railway” project; Wangqian Coffee Workshop; and the Showa 18 J18 Chiayi Historical Archives.

The Jiabei Elementary School wind band opened the event, joined by seven global design leaders, iF DESIGNASIA general manager Li Chien-kuo, Asia University chair professor Lin Pang-soong and professor Hsieh Sheng-min, and representatives and design teams of the local winners. Mayor Huang thanked everyone for their work for the city, noting that collaboration between businesses and designers lets people feel the city’s design energy, with design visible everywhere in daily life. Visitors are welcome at the museum until January 3 next year to experience a city enhanced by design.

iF Chiayi Design Exhibition

Dates | 2023.10.03 – 2024.01.03, Tue–Sun 09:00–17:00 (last tickets 16:30)
Venue | Special exhibition hall, 1F, Chiayi Municipal Museum (No. 275-1, Zhongxiao Rd., Chiayi City)
Tickets | Full NT$50; group NT$35; concession NT$25 (free for Chiayi City residents)
※ Tickets are sold at the museum ticket office

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