embracing sweet potato island design

As an undergraduate, I once had an impulse to curate a small exhibition featuring items that had been made in Taiwan. In fact, I even went so far as to begin collecting things to display. Ebay was my first hunting ground, and the search terms "made in Taiwan" turned up all kinds of interesting objects. My favorite was a ceramic urn shaped like an out-sized walnut with a little squirrel perched on top--I bought that and it now lives on my kitchen table. This issue of "The Reader," a magazine which I believe is published by Taiwanese bookstore giant Eslite, is dedicated entirely to Taiwanese product design. It might have been the catalog for my little exhibition.