Ciao Ciao – Italian Children’s Book Exhibition

Italy is famous for children’s literature, the unique narrative and illustrative styles attracting devoted fans all over the world in addition to within Italy itself. This exhibition features a selection of 35 works from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, a wealth of storytelling and visual brilliance including both retellings of classic tales and new stories.
A shared feature of these works is imaginative use of visual elements to convey story and emotion, with as few words as possible. Full of poetry and humor, these works inhabit and display the multifaceted experience of children.
Exhibition Information
This exhibition centered around Eisuke Tachikawa’s advocacy of “Evolutionary Thinking,” explores the past, present, future, and the global “ecosystem” with various attempts made by NOSIGNER over the past decade, to find the most suitable positioning for various projects and propose visions for the future.
Each year, the project observes hardwares in different country. The designers will first deconstruct the original functions of the hardware and to repurpose them. Parts of the Taiwanese and Dutch hardware works will be presented in the exhibition this time.
On May 31st, the Black and Blue Cosmos Exhibition will kick off in Taitung, representing the third exhibition that has been moved from Taipei to Taitung thanks to close cooperation between the Taitung and Taiwan Design Centers.