At Songshan, give the textbook another look
47 winning works, 38 redesigned books and lessons that step off the page at Taiwan Design Museum.
Buddy Lien · Songshan, Taipei
Yellow book tables, a visitor passing between
Gallery photograph published jointly by School Textbooks Design Award and Taiwan Design Museum. Exhibition graphic design: 張翔 and Yun Ruei Zhou.
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Look at how a textbook page makes a difficult idea readable.
In the organiser's photograph, two yellow tables carry open textbooks towards a silver wall. A visitor blurs between them. I want to see which pages can hold their own against the room.
AHA! gathers 47 winning works from Taiwan's third School Textbooks Design Award, alongside 38 redesigned books intended for classrooms in 2026–27. Curated by Aestheticell, it also turns subject knowledge into interactive installations. Designers, teachers and publishers all have a hand in what a learner ends up facing.
Pick one difficult idea and look for the design decision that makes it readable: where an image sits, what a diagram leaves out, how much room the words have. Visit Gallery 01 at Taiwan Design Museum through November 8. Admission is free; allow time to look closely at the books.
Get there
Public transport
From Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall MRT Exit 5, allow seven minutes for the approximately 400-metre walk into Songshan Cultural and Creative Park. Find Gallery 01 inside Taiwan Design Museum.
Sources
- School Textbooks Design Award: exhibition and winning work ↗ — 47 winning works, 38 redesigned books, dates and free admission
- TDRI: exhibition introduction ↗ — Curation, interactive installations and exhibition graphics
- Organiser and museum: gallery photographs ↗ — Gallery, books and visiting hours