1. Portable LOFT
Launching the latest edition of Utterubbish: UseLess Life, designs for a sustainable lifestyle, the multi-disciplinary exhibition brings you around 20 internationally acclaimed designers and studios, presenting 100 design ideas at this year's KDF!
2. Portable MARKET + MUSIC
Applying Taiwan's unique 'night market' spirit, we have carefully selected more than 50 original Taiwanese brands and products, to be exhibiting and vending at KDF09'. Together with local indie bands with a bit of a design twist, the market is about to rock the Design Festival of Kaoshiung!
3. Portable FUTURE
Young, fresh, not afraid to speak up, we look forward to this year's student show at Kaoshiung. More than 30 design schools from southern Taiwan are participating this annual event, bringing you the best of southern Taiwan's new generation.
4. Portable CONTAINER
Shipping containers are no strangers to the port city Kaoshiung. Transforming empty containers into gallery spaces, we invited 'design friendly' brands such as Fossil, Gamania, C.I. World and many more to exhibit their newest products at KDF09'.
5. Portable EXCHANGE
'Connecting Ideas' as its main objective, The Design Association of Taiwan aims to promote and encourage exchange of ideas between Taiwan and the international design scene. This year, 50 prominent designers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Macao, Singapore and Malaysia pay their tribute to Han character in the exhibition 'Han Shan' (t-shirt) ; also 15 international designers are participating in the Man+God visual art exhibition; furthermore, represented Taiwan in the Singapore Design Festival 2007, Character Design Taiwan will also be exhibited at this year's Kaoshiung Design Festival.
6. Portable GALLERY
In many ways, the city itself is the best gallery space. Whether you are at the Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Arts, the High Speed Rail Zuoying Station, metro stations around Kaoshiung, or a café at the Hsin-Chueh-Chian shopping area, you can see a diverse range of local designer and artists integrating their work with the urban environment. Along with the Andy Warhol world exhibtion and Barbie's 50th anniversary show, these projects are taking the essence of the festival into the streets of Kaoushiung.
7. Portable TALK
Abandoning the boundaries of design, this year's speakers from multiple disciplines are here to talk about trend, creativity and whatever that ticks your inspiration! All are welcome to join in the conversation!
