Time Book Bookend by Yi Tong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
GoldFurniture· 2020
Time Book Bookend
by Yi Tong
Client: Quinsay
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Time Book Bookend
Time Book is a bookend designed for use on a desk or a bookshelf. Each bookend is made from a hand-polished crystal glass block. Special ink is screen printed on the surface and cured at high temperature. The high density of the crystal glass gives the bookend stability in use. The design is minimal in function, form and material, and resembles a book-shaped sculpture. The form presents the function clearly. The printed text uses the Quinsay Parto typeface. The letters MMXIX on the spine are the Roman numerals for 2019.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Time Book Bookend is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Time Book Bookend is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Time Book Bookend creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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We create minimalist products that blend function, form and material with thoughtful typography and graphic design. Our literary-inspired approach has earned international recognition including the A' Design Award. We specialize in transforming conceptual ideas into refined objects that embody simplicity and purpose.
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- Unique Properties
- Bookends are made by hand-polished crystal glass blocks. Special ink was screen printed on the surface and cured at high temperature. The high density of crystal glass gives them perfect stability when in use.
Time Book is minimalistic in terms of function, form and material, it’s like a book-shaped sculpture. The function is clearly presented by its form.
The text on the book uses Quinsay Parto typeface designed by Time book’s designer. The “MMXIX” on the book spine is the Roman numeral writing of “2019”. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 120(l), 55(w), 135(h)mm
- Tags
- Bookend, Book, Glass, Typography, Font
- Production Technology
- Crystal Glass
- Design Challenge
- Designers wish to keep their design minimalistic in terms of function, form and material. Time Book is like a book-shaped sculpture. The function is clearly presented by its form.
- Research
- Bookends are made by hand-polished crystal glass blocks. Special ink was screen printed on the surface and cured at high temperature. The high density of crystal glass gives them perfect stability when in use.
- Inspiration
- Time Book is inspired by Marquez’s novel. The opening of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is printed on Time Book. It is the beginning of a great novel.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2018 and finished in December 2018 in Hangzhou(China), and was exhibited in Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai in February 2019.
- Operation Flow
- Time Book can be placed on a desk or a bookshelf. The high density of crystal glass gives them perfect stability when it is used.stability when in use.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Quinsay Design,2019
- Team Members
- Creative Director:Tong Yi
Product Designer:Tong Yi
Typeface Designer:Tong Yi - Image Credits
- Photographe:Wu Wenbin
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