Gold Medal
《Steamy Buns》
nosbooks publication ltd.
Design Concept：
Misaki Kawai creates artworks of painting, sculpture, fashion, publishing, etc. Her works feature endless characters and colours that radiate joyful, powerful spirit. The book design strives to express such qualities. We consider the book as artist’s work than a reproduction, giving human touch in mass production.
Features:
1. Double binding coils
Double coils bring happy surprise, out of expectation of what a book looks like, echoing Misaki’s playful spirit. Book opens in 3-page spreads (not just 2-page), turning pages alternately left and right. It’s fun and challenging for page design and colour matching. Also allows free navigation of pages that readers can do their mix-and-match.
With double coils support, the book can stand up, showing 3 covers or sides as a 3D object – whole book is tangible.
2. Risograph in 14 colours:
Risograph is best to print Misaki’s colours in richness and intensity. Designer separates layers and assign colours to the drawings. Test printing and discuss back and forth. The book is loyal to Misaki’s aesthetics, colour sense, and force of drawings.
3. Cover design:
A. Puffy inlay to build up book body – raised puffy like a steamy bun.
B. Special PU heat-printing for title and image – more tangible, and consistent to whole book. Worked with textile printing factory that normally do not make books, testing onward to reach ideal outcome.
Author：MISAKI KAWAI
Editor：NI Ho-Tzu (aka Son NI)
Product Photo：CHU Chi-Hung
W x H cm/pages：30 x 27cm/98
ISBN：9789869726931
Contact：NI Ho-Tzu
E-mail：hi@nosbooks.com
Silver Medal
《Tai-Nui (Taiwanese Girls)》
Locus Publishing Company.
“Tai-Niu” is comprised of two volumes, A and B, bound together with a special hand-made, multilayered book form.
Book A is a photo album featuring 20 Taiwanese girls who are just living their lives, unaffected by what people think about them. It is printed in full color and bound with an orange thread using the exposed spine sewing method. The pages are two-sides gloss coated art paper and simile paper, interleaved to provide a unique rhythm and experience for the reader, with the differing textures reflecting the unique personality of each subject.
Book B is a text-focused volume that collects essays on the thoughts and feelings of the 20 Taiwanese girls. The volume uses saddle-stitch binding and special two-color printing. The layout, colors, and overall style are modern and fashionable.
The photo album is designed to wrap around the text volume, bound and covered with high-pond art paper. This two-layer binding reflects the multifaceted and mischievous nature of the subjects: The book, like these girls, is not to be judged by its cover.
The front cover and back cover of “Tai-Niu” is a photo spread in a contemporary style. The book’s title font exudes both coolness and cuteness, an emblem of the book’s unrestrained and avant-garde overall design.
Author：Nymph Lee（Chao-Jung Lee）, Manbo Key, Chien-Wen Lin
Editor：CHIENWEI WANG
Illustrator / Photographer：MW studio TW_ Manbo Key&Chien-Wen Lin
W x H cm/pages：13.5 x 19.5 cm/336
ISBN：9789865549800
Contact：Vinelle Pan
E-mail：vinelle@locuspublishing.com
Bronze Medal
《WAN der LAND extra issue》
Jut Foundation for Arts and Architecture.
Design Concept：
This is a special publication of the exhibition WAN der LAND and a practical handbook of the Wan Hua district. Readers may find the clues to understand and explore Wan Hua in depth through keywords and the sharing of residents. With the concept “Wan Hua is like an independent region in the universe, with its own gravity,” the design of this publication attempts to create a sense of time and space in the two-dimensional book. The twisted characters of Wan Hua on the cover serve as a ritual for readers to get into the context of Wan Hua. The book indicates and highlights each section with respective colors in accordance with the six sections of the exhibition. The gold ink, symbolizing the past and current culture of Wan Hua, is used throughout the book to keep the overall consistency and unique characteristic of each chapter.
Author/Editor：Maritime Creation Studio
Illustrator / Photographer：Maritime Creation Studio
W x H cm/pages：14 x 21 cm/176
ISBN：9789869646536
Contact：Jut Foundation for Arts and Architecture
E-mail：umkt@jutfoundation.org.tw
Honor Award
《Synchronic Constellation: Le Moulin Poetry Society and the cross-Boundary Flow of Esprit Nouveau》
Uni-books, a division of And Publishing Ltd.
Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government.
Design Concept：
“Synchronic Constellation – Le Moulin Poetry Society and Its Time: A Cross-Boundary Exhibition” is an exhibition which centered on Le Moulin Poetry Society, a group founded by Taiwanese poets in 1930s, and further explored the modern art movements influenced by modernist literature and art culture in the Western world and in Japan from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1940s. This book hopes to further explain this exhibition by showing visual documentaries which include vintage manuscripts, photographs, art works, books, graphics all together to portray the beginning of the modern spirits of the time. Graphic designer, Chia-hsing Ho spent a lot of effort to explore the local style and to pursue the asian behavior of lineness by applying the calligraphic line as his design tool. This book is his endeavor for all the years.
Author/Editor：Ya-Li Huang, Yunyuan Chen
Illustrator/Photographer：Ya-Li Huang
W x H cm/pages：15.1 x 21.6 cm/528
ISBN：9789579072519
Contact：Ya-Li Huang
E-mail：leefhuang@gmail.com
Honor Award
《Pheromone》LEZS2020
CREATION AND ACTION CO., LTD.
Design Concept：
This magazine is themed with “Pheromone─Distance” and uses “poster book” as a concept, leading readers to explore the secrets of love hidden in odours. “Pheromone” is an extremely fascinating hormone spreading the signal of desire as well as the magnetism to bring two lovers closer. More than ten women artists from different fields were invited to issue their articles through this publication, including a new generation actress, Cincin Jao, a 3D artist, Dorairolg, an interracial couple, Amber and Tomo, a photographer, Wenjei Cheng and Pinchun Kuo, a florist artist, Kris Lee, an illustrator, LI YA WEN, a pastry chef, Doris, a women researcher, Martina, and the founder of 《LEZS》, AJ Wang, slipping into the consciousness to dig out the complicated desire and monologue buried. Through this experimental edition, trying to break the convention of reading and vision, and presenting this publication as posters, every page is an individual and unique artwork standing for the imagination of the new generation women.
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Author：Ann-jiun Wang
Editor：Ya Wen Li
Illustrator / Photographer：Ya Wen Li
W x H cm/pages：30 x 42 cm/50
ISBN：9789869986106
Contact：Ann-jiun Wang
E-mail：lezsmeeting@gmail.com
Honor Award
《In-Site-Out: X-site 2014-2020》
Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Design Concept：
Launched by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) in 2014, Program X-site witnessed the plaza between the city and the museum as an intermediary site of experiment. Each winning project, selected from the annual open call for cross-disciplinary installations organized with a different theme by TFAM, endowed the obscure square with a novel sensory experience for visitors in summer.
The collective work epitomizes the first prize-winners over a span of seven years, completed with two international forums as the starting and turning points, respectively in 2013 and 2019. The core concept of “In-Site-Out” as a fluidity of the site runs through the whole book. Graphically oriented with a focus on visual elaboration and textual assistance, the book is embedded with a key material of each winning project, not merely to foreground its particularity and creative spirit, but to keep the X-site experiment alive on paper. As part of the “site”, the volume makes it possible for the installations to go beyond where they were. With the book in their hands, readers can feel intuitively connected with the X-site where they’ve never attended.
Author：Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Editor：San SHIUNG(Chief Editor), Chiamin LIU(Guest Editor), Siou-lin HUANG(Executive Editor)
Illustrator/Photographer：X-sites project teams, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
W x H cm/pages：18 X 24.5 cm/250
ISBN：9789865464097
Contact：Siou-lin HUANG
E-mail：sioulin-tfam@mail.taipei.gov.tw
Honor Award
《Subzoology：2020 Taiwan Biennial》
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
Design Concept：
This book is the exhibition catalogue of “Subzoology: 2020 Taiwan Biennial”. In response to the curatorial concept of the curator Yao Jui-Chung, who treats “Sub-zoology” as exhibition theme, which implies “Animal Realm” in “Six Realms” from Buddhism as its entry point, the book designer specially selects “orihon” as its binding method. The title design of the book is in the form of Rañjanā font and designed as a Buddhism mantra medal. The contents of the book refers to the structure of Buddhist scriptures, and is divided into Foreword Section, Curatorial Background Section, Revelation Section, and Transmission Section. There are 298 pages of wonderful pictures and texts including curatorial essay, artists’ statement, plates of art works, and extended program of the Biennial. With exquisite and elaborate packaging techniques and ancient treasure-like brocade boxes, it contains wonderful works of Taiwanese contemporary in this biennial revisit.
Lin Long-Jin
Author：Yao Jui-Chung
Editor：Iris Huang Shu-Ping
W x H cm/pages：8 x 6 cm/248
ISBN：9789865321321
Contact：Hsiao-Yu Lin
E-mail：hylin@art.ntmofa.gov.tw
Honor Award
《1+1+1》
MIRROR FICTION INC.
Design Concept：
1+1+1 is a story about gathering. Could it be a family with a father and a son? Or they had to have a plus… maybe a dog, or a mysterious blue hair lady?
With characters printed on a transparent jacket, it fits in two main scenes of the story: the street view of the city, and the firework showing at the riverside. The day and night versions tell different sides of the story.
Author：Vincent Chen
Editor：Jun Yu Wang
Illustrator/Photographer：Lan Shengjie
W x H cm/pages：17 x 23 cm/160
ISBN：9789869886864
Contact：Pu Liu
E-mail：liupu@mirrorfiction.com
Honor Award
《Taiwanese Lunar New Year Magazine 》
THAT iS CREATIVE & BRANDING.
Design Concept：
“Taiwanese Lunar New Year magazine” is an interactive magazine designed by 20 artists which covers everything about Lunar New Year. There are six chapters from New Year’s Eve to the fifth day of Lunar New Year. Not only the readers can have a reading experience but also touch and feel the textures and play with the attachments. “Taiwanese Lunar New Year magazine” has included red envelope, Four Color Cards, Chinese zodiac cards, Chinese paper cuts, calligraphy, spring couplets and the rarely seen flower on rice as interactive attachments. All the measurements in the magazine were designed with lucky numbers from the special Chinese ruler. The magazine also uses different textures of paper for different articles, such as using recycled paper with the topic about joss paper. Let’s all have a very Taiwanese style new year!
Lun Huang
Ciara Liu
Waiting Wang
Author：Ryan Hong, Lun Huang, Ciara Liu, Waiting Wang
Editor：Ryan Hong,Wen Ling Liu
Illustrator：Ryan Hong,Lun Huang,Ciara Liu,Waiting Wang,LIN HUI CHIU,Litien Poeng,Tingo Tseng,CHOU YU-NING,JIA-CHI WEN,Hsu Yi Hsuan,THEVOLCANO
Photographer：Calvin Hsu
W x H cm/pages：18.5 x 40.5 cm/37
ISBN：9789860605600
Contact：Ryan Hong
E-mail：ryan@thatis.design
Honor Award
《Becoming A Cave》
Locus Publishing Company.
Design Concept：
Creator Inca Pan is both an illustrator and a writer, noted for the visual tension and detail of his images. The hope is for the design of this book to echo the title “Becoming a Cave”: a journey from nothing to something, from darkness to light, as the reader discovers the vision of the cave. The image on the jacket is therefore a subdued black-and-silver, in contrast to the vivid colors of the images within. A special black leather paper was chosen for the cover, with a bumpy texture that evokes the insect-like fantasy creatures of the author’s creations. The enormous flower-like form on the cover image is the cave creature known as the Eye of the Devil. Meeting the eye in the center of its bloom is an unsettling experience, as if the viewer is completely exposed and drawn into the spirals of its form. Due to the use of black paper, UV printing is used for the jacket: After printing two layers of silver ink, silver and black foil is printed onto parts of the jacket for the final effect.
Author：Inca Pan (Yun-Jia Pan)
Editor：Yi-Chun Lin
Illustrator / Photographer：Inca Pan (Yun-Jia Pan)
W x H cm/pages：17 x 25 cm/192
ISBN：9789865549923
Contact：Vinelle Pan
E-mail：vinelle@locuspublishing.com
Honor Award
《Assembly of Communities: MIX》
Taipei Culture Foundation / Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei.
Design Concept：
“Assembly of Communities: MIX” is the project title of the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, in 2020. The title of the exhibition and the book Assembly of Communities: MIX corresponds to the cultural embodiment of the combination of complexity, mix and match, and diversity. The design concept of the book is centred on the exhibition’s concept “an era when perception has to be reorganized”. The idea of “restructuring of perception” is conveyed through the binding design which contradicts to the logic of page turning—with left-to-right turning front cover and right-to-left turning pages, the book cover spine placed at right yet requiring one to flip the pages from left to right. The design aims to let the audience directly experience the idea of “assembly” through behavior of the process of flipping through the book. By changing different texture and size of the paper allows readers to experience the different qualities and the sense of combination and mix from various sizes. With the act resonating dismantling or assembling objects of the readers flipping the book, it echoes the focus issue of the exhibition.
Author：Taipei Culture Foundation / Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
Editor：Li-Chen Loh, Shuman Chang, Ian Yi-Hsiang Hsu, LIN Yu Hsuan, CHEN Chia Nuan, LIAO Suhan
Illustrator / Photographer：Jimmy Chang
W x H cm/pages：19.5 x 25.5 cm/184
ISBN：9789869896665
Contact：Chan Hua Tzu
E-mail：huatzu@mocataipei.org.tw
Honor Award
《Letters from Taipei》
Slowork CULTURE CO., LTD.
Design Concept：
While considering the complexity of the plot—like various causal historic events intersect and interlap, designer sets keywords of design for this book: “stacking-up” and “covering-up.”
There is a color block which occupies nearly 90% area of front and back cover. And there are brushstrokes and handwritings, which are sampled from author’s signature ballpoint pen drawing in this book, overflowing from the edge of that color block. Designer aims at creating the effect of waves o readers by compressing both image and time to their limits.
Italian tracing paper made with special fibers is chosen for tile page. Designer attempts to actualize the mistiness of time where this story begins and ends.
For post press finishing, in order to intensify the effect of ballpoint pen brushstrokes, gloss varnish is applied to the front cover. And each character of book title is debossed to show the imprint of history. Designer even intensifies the classicality of this book by choosing traditional Chinese thread-binding in its special version. However, through fore edge printing that emphasizes the consistency and neatness in color, designer means to decorate this book with the sense of modernity, which thusly implies to conflicts like what endless circle of history behind the story.
Author：Fish Wu
Editor：Pei-Shan Huang
Illustrator / Photographer：SUWEI,Mo Chien
W x H cm/pages：16 x 23 cm/176
ISBN：9789869857369
Contact：SUWEI
E-mail：xcocx034@gmail.com
Honor Award
《After a Bird Fell Down》
Hyper Curation Co., Ltd.
Design Concept：
By combining the structure of hole books and pop-up books, this picture book adopts “volume of book pages” into its narrative. While reading, readers would find out the hole bigger and the sprout taller page by page. With A6 size and thickness which is almost three centimeters. I attempt to make book size as big as the dead body of a bird. While readers turn each page and make my book thinner, they can feel that the body of a bird gradually disappears at the same time.
In terms of color, I make the whole book purely white as possible. I hope such kind of emptiness could make readers relate to “time,” something we cannot see but can feel. Besides, I leave no words on book cover. Instead, I deboss the cover with a rectangular pit and place a transparent sticker printed with a green feather inside. It looks like a photo frame sealing a feather, which symbolizing this book treasures the death of the bird in this story.
Second, I choose paper with sand-like texture for the cover. I hope readers can feel like touching the ground–that is, where this story happens.
Third, I decorate copyright page with blue sky and make it the very beginning of this story. So, when readers open this book, they would not only read the sentence, “A bird fell down onto the ground,” they can dive into this story from the bird’s-eye view from the sky.
Author/Editor：SUWEI
Illustrator/ Photographer：SUWEI,Mo Chien
W x H cm/pages：10.5 x 15 cm/15
ISBN：9789869873819
Contact：SUWEI
E-mail：xcocx034@gmail.com
The Axis of the Spine
nosbooks publication ltd.
Design Concept：
In 2009, Hsiayu set out on the Routes of Santiago de Compostela, stretching from France to Spain, and took 5 months to slowly travel 1600km by foot as a non-pilgrim. Upon arrival, she burned down her belongings and hundreds of sentences as a “ritual for rebirth”. Settling down and contemplating over the next decade, she retrieved and recreated the lines from memory to compile 33 poems into “The Axis of the Spine”.
The design concept is derived from antique typography, melting lead with intense heat to create two thousand characters, which were stamped on paper, presenting one poem per page. Then, printing plates are moulded accordingly, and used to emboss words onto paper to form word reliefs of the poems.
For an easier read, an 8-page postscript is printed in black on translucent sheets; the ink is translating the word reliefs word by word. There are suggestive cut lines to tear the pages out after reading, so the readers can take part in realizing the concept-“a book with no ink”.
The heavy lead types signify solid steps. Traces disappeared on the barren lands, but the poems mark what’s left behind. Manifested in hieroglyphic characters, the poems word reliefs of the poems.show figurative beauty on the embossed side, and mirrored beauty on the debossed side. Through various complex procedures, the book is perfected by the unification of its form and its content.
The word reliefs might be eroded from the humidity and dust in the air as time goes by, but will the poems be gone in the decades to come?
Yichi HONG
Author：Hsiayu
Illustrator：Hsiayu
W x H cm/pages：13cmx21cm/121
ISBN：9789574373383
Contact：Hsiayu
E-mail：pinknoise99@gmail.com
Songs and Bonfires － Jam Wu’s Solo Exhibition
Liana Gallery
Design Concept：
This is a catalog of artist Jam Wu’s solo exhibition. Several works in the exhibition were old documents been cut into thin strips, and then re-made into works by hand weaving. The design of this book uses the elements of weaving. The interlaced text effect on the cover is made on computer. The height difference is created by debossing technique for been simulated as a woven feeling; the human shape is fulfilled by 2 times white hot stamping processes, and with different pressures of debossing and white hot stamping, the multi-layer effect has been accomplished. These post-press finishing are made in larger size, and then cut to finished size for final binding processing. The design of the inner page responds to the style of the artist’s work. Three types of light coated paper are selected for full color printing and two types of tracing paper are used as interleave to distinguish each series of works.
From the paper choosing to post-press finishing and binding, this book seeks to present the characteristics of the exhibition’s focus on folk art history and Austronesian culture.
Author：Jam WU
Illustrator：Chi-Hung CHU
W x H cm/pages：21x28cm/284
ISBN：9789869720014
Contact：Jam WU
E-mail：jenselboy@gmail.com
