Winning Books
Gold Medal
《Dancing Is To Make Movements》
Jury comment：
The overall book design is visually restrained and precise, with a text-free cover and vibrant, lively illustrations on the interior pages. Between simplicity and complexity, movement and stillness, there seems to be a contrast that yet harmoniously complements each other.
Silver Medal
《Summertime Daze & A Cha-Cha with Money: Our Theatre's Plays Volume 1》
Jury comment：
The design carefully distills various elements of traditional Taiwanese culture and temple imagery, breaking down the wall between the refined and the popular. This artistic interpretation of the affection towards a specific land can be appreciated by not only the local community but also international audience.
Godkidlla
Author：Godkidlla
Editor：Pei-Hsuan Lee
W x H cm/pages：14.8x21cm/416
ISBN：9786263146372
Bronze Medal
《Void3Mountain》
Jury comment：
Different from regular books, this title is bound loose-leaf. It documents the significant moments of the five editions of the Tainan-based art event Longci Light Festival: Void Mountain from 2019 to 2024. Attached to the transparent plastic cover are reusable stickers which can be rearranged according to the reader’s preference. It allows individuals to show their own style and create unique covers, offering a personalized experience of “micro curation”. The cover is no longer just a part of book binding, but an interesting way to stimulate interactions with the reader. The loose-leaf binding also reminds people of the popular diary notebooks among teenagers during the 2000s, responding to the core concept of the book—documenting the important moments.
The visual design uses silver holographic foil, luminous ink, and dark colors to present the glimmering starlight in the night mountains. The style is strong and bold, reflecting the theme of the book as well as providing a unique visual impact.
Honor Award
《A Carpenter and His Taiwan Exposition》
Rye Field Publications
Jury comment：
This is the new edition of a book about historical facts and artifacts of the 1953 Taiwan Expo. The content not only includes narrative accounts of historical facts but also features a vast number of maps and cadasters, hundreds of stamps, various images of signs, etc. Normally, books of this kind are designed with simple layouts to facilitate the editing and reading of historical materials. However, this book adopts multiple layouts, reflecting the complexity of editing. Additionally, the choice of exposed binding is not intended as a display of techniques but rather a thoughtful consideration that allows the reader to see the image on a completely flat double spread page, offering a more immersive experience akin to viewing actual maps. Overall, while this is a rich and content-heavy history book, its design makes it fun to read. The designer is indeed very professional.
Honor Award
《The Adolescent: Traces of Chinese Experimental Film and Video》
Le Ganges Edition
Jury comment：
The hardcover uses the color of a blue screen, typically seen before a video is played, as a direct visual language to tell the reader that this is a book about cinema and images. The same blue color is used on the edge, where the designer cleverly utilizes the space created by the thickness of stacked paper to print the book title in large, white fonts. This breaks the traditional flat concept of book covers and gives the book a distinctive three-dimensional spatial quality, much like the fictional spaces in films, elevating the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional.
Although the book title is placed on the side of the book instead of the front cover, the substantial quality of the book ensures that the title remains easily recognizable, while also creating a cohesive and unique design feature. This attempt at discarding conventional form, merging three-dimensional concept with cinematic language, aligns perfectly with the core theme of the book—being “a representative monograph on experimental cinema in the Asian region.”
Honor Award
《Hello, Human》
Jury comment：
The cover design visually concretizes the idea of “What would AI’s expression look like if it had one?” It is like the artificial intelligence has got its own emotions and tries to greet humans through digitally composed symbols. The color scheme features large areas of neon hues that belong to the digital world, such as purple, blue, and green, creating a visually stimulating technology vibe. This evokes a sense of conflict and blurs the boundary between paper and digital media. The book’s special, elongated size echoes the shape of a smartphone screen, inviting reflection on the reading mediums of two generations. The book jacket further employs a velvet laminate finish, giving the originally fibrous art paper a different layer of texture that mimics the feel of skin. Through the process of inputting technology-related symbols into the book, the designer seems to indicate that even in today’s world where AI is growing rapidly, we are still exploring the blurred boundaries between humanity and technology.
Honor Award
《Island Visions: Poetry through Young Eyes》
Jury comment：
Minimalism is adopted to create this extremely refined poetry anthology. Each aspect of the design—from the cover, binding, layout to the selection of paper—displays a consistent delicacy. The poems portray the environment of Taiwan. Thus, the designer chose a retro, rustic style for the cover. The page layout is thoughtfully structured, with the spacing and proportions between lines providing ample room for the reader to engage with the text, offering a balance of simplicity and depth. The minimalist arrangement of texts creates a meditative space of the couplets, allowing readers to savor each word and its meaning at a slow pace. The book design perfectly employs the concept of minimalism, making an excellent choice between the more and the less.
Honor Award
《Metaphor of the times: the reality named myanmar》
Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute
Jury comment：
This book uses flowing lines to outline a map of Myanmar and its neighboring countries, presented in a gradient of national flag colors reflecting Myanmar’s state of turmoil and displacement. The layout incorporates Mandarin-English and English-Burmese paragraphs to offer a multilingual context of interpretation, showing uniqueness in the cross-cultural trend. The book’s binding design features die-cuts on the front and back covers to show the outline of Myanmar’s borders. The missing corners symbolize the country’s ongoing conflict. The exposed inner pages also imply the theme of the book—a glimpse of part of Myanmar’s reality, subtly revealing the hidden meaning. The interior part of the book adopts a relatively bright color palette, reflecting a sense of hope amidst hardship, making this work truly outstanding.
Honor Award
《An Art Museum In My Pocket- Line》
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Jury comment：
An Art Museum in My Pocket – Line uses the unique feature of accordion binding to extend the spatial possibilities of a picture book, transforming the scenes into continuous, unfolding images. This book is one of the three volumes of the My Pocket Art Museum series, which explores the three elements of visual space, offering a first-person reinterpretation of artist Chen Cheng-po’s painting Tamsui Landscape. The river in the painting is transformed into lines that extend outward, connecting to the ocean, which serves as a base. The reader seems to be brought beyond the island to a new land and then drawn back to the original place. On the back cover, the author presents the architectural features of Tamsui constructions with simple, bold lines of printmaking. The book ingeniously introduces Taiwan’s early architectural culture, guiding readers to explore their hometown’s landscape through the extension of lines. Overall, the combination of flat illustrations and the three-dimensional structure of the book beautifully convey the elegant interpretation of and imaginative take on lines.
Honor Award
《(assemblage)dust, salt and dirt》
Jury comment：
This is a portfolio about humans and nature. The book showcases Chen Sheng-Wen’s artworks from 2015 to 2023, including embroidery, weaving, and sculptures. There are also documentary images of Chen collecting wastes, his travel journals, writing pieces, and drafts of artworks, exploring the relationship between humans and the environment. The book cover is made of raw grey chipboard, implying a sense of vulnerability and the idea of being easily affected by time. On the cover, the handmade collage of two kinds of insulating tapes in different colors reflects the connection between Chen’s artworks and wastes. The use of washi tapes and regular tapes on several customized tipped-in pages also creates a dialogue between different materials. Furthermore, the book title is presented in sharp handwriting, like tightly pulled threads knitted above abstractly painted mountain and water, forming an absurd relationship. The author uses the same threads in his artwork as book strings, which stretch down the book spine like the swaying form of a living thing.
Honor Award
《Mirror mirror in my hand》
Jury comment：
This picture book, sized similar to a mobile phone, depicts the anxiety towards social media and self-image, questioning whether self-worth has become overly dependent on external feedback and praise. It explores the issue of true self-identity in the digital age. The illustrations, with their brisk strokes and red-blue color palette, guide the reader into a unique “magic mirror.” The gutter serves as both a page divider and the metaphorical reflective surface of a mirror. The left page portrays the real life, while the right page depicts the social media world, creating an intriguing effect. Contrasts in composition and colors can be found on the double-page spreads, which are in fact very similar to the life situation of modern people. Through this traditional format—a book—, the author skillfully and thoughtfully brings to life the contradictions and obsessions we have for the digital world.
Honor Award
《MOROSE YÀRÉDIE》
Jury comment：
Breaking away from the typical “cover visual impression” of most photo books, the design transitions from the subdued colors of the cover to the liberating images within the pages. It’s as if reflecting the corresponding relationship between the states before and after a photographic development, evoking a sense of grandeur that follows a moment of tranquility.
Honor Award
《Palaces: Our Theatre's Plays Volume 2》
Jury comment：
The design carefully distills various elements of traditional Taiwanese culture and temple imagery, breaking down the wall between the refined and the popular. This artistic interpretation of the affection towards a specific land can be appreciated by not only the local community but also international audience.
Godkidlla
Author：Our Theatre, Ming-Lun Wu, MC JJ
Editor：Pei-Hsuan Lee
W x H cm/pages：14.8x21cm/416
ISBN：9786263146372
Honor Award
《A Grasshopper Hops》
Jury comment：
The author has put a lot of effort into many details, including the collage and editing techniques, choice of materials, and the binding methods, which all make the book a delicate and complete work. Flipping through the pages is like embarking on a rhythmic and immersive journey through the author’s lens. Starting from the title page, we see the camera zooms in and out, at times fast-paced, at others static. The simplified shapes and lines of the collages evoke many imaginations, allowing for different interpretations and richer meanings. This work conveys the creator’s vitality and determination, offering not only visual aesthetics but also a sense of poetic rhythm.
Honor Award
《Afternoon Thundershower》
Jury comment：
The book is presented in the form of a gift box or a diary box, allowing imaginative takes on its contents. The essence of visual art is showcased through this self-published artist’s book. The binding thoughtfully incorporates a paper manual thunder tube, making the book not just for reading but also for exploring and playing. In addition to the structural ingenuity, the cover image, font of the title, and color of the paper all show an excellent sense of balance. One of the challenges of such boxed books is managing the overall presentation, but the designer did a good job to ensure that no detail feels excessive or contrived. Overall, this book provides the experience and enjoyment like that of being in a museum.
