Taipei, before the factory
Print, paper, and the insert are a collab. Finish the surface here. Do not ask the toolmaker to invent it.
By Mei Chou · 22 September 2026 · 6 min · Taipei
Sourcing editor on the Taipei desk. She reads quotes before she reads campaigns.
Taipei is where a China or Taiwan product often gets its public surface: a designer, a printer who still picks up the phone, a shop that might stock the object if the bag is right. People post the surface. They rarely post the tool.
Lock it before the cut
- Language and dieline, before tooling.
- A wet proof. Screens lie about uncoated paper.
- If a shop must stock it, design the bag they will photograph.
- The factory makes the object. It does not write the card.
A cross-strait brand that prints once and sticks a second label later looks like it flinched. Spend the week on this desk before you pretend the factory visit is the creative meeting.
