The Classic of Tea Ka Hoʻolālā Puke by Junheng Li

The Classic of Tea Ka Hoʻolālā Puke by Junheng Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Paʻi a me Pāpaho Paʻi Competition Category.

KeleawePaʻi· 2020

The Classic of Tea Ka Hoʻolālā Puke

by Junheng Li

A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in Paʻi Category

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The Design

About The Classic of Tea Ka Hoʻolālā Puke

ʻO ka Classic of Tea kahi hoʻolālā puke i kūkulu ʻia ma luna o ka moʻolelo palapala kahiko loa i ʻike ʻia e pili ana i ke kī. Ua hana piha ʻia ka puke a me kona wahī uhi mai ka lāʻau beech. Ua kālai ʻia ka poʻo inoa waena ma ke keleawe ʻulaʻula. ʻO kēlā me kēia ʻaoʻao he papa lāʻau hiki ke wehe ʻia a nānā kaʻawale ʻia. Wehe ka pōhaku uhi mai waena a puni nā ʻaoʻao ʻelua, no laila hiki ke lawe ʻia ka puke piha i waho. Ua hana ʻia nā ʻaoʻao me kahi mīkini kālai kukui-lēkiō a me ka pena. Hōʻike ka koho o nā mea hana i ka moʻomeheu kahiko o Kina, kahi i kākau ʻia ai ma ke ʻohe, ka lāʻau, a me ke keleawe – nā mea like i pili pū ʻia me ka moʻomeheu kī kahiko.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā The Classic of Tea Ka Hoʻolālā Puke i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā The Classic of Tea Ka Hoʻolālā Puke he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā The Classic of Tea Ka Hoʻolālā Puke i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Redesigned The Classic of Tea, which is the world's earliest book recording tea. The book is wholly made and packaged by beech wood. The central title is carved with red copper. Ancient Chinese culture before Christ was mostly handed down by bamboo, trees and bronze, and tea culture also evolved from these three materials.
Dimensions & Packaging: packaging:230mm*230mm*60mm
page:210mm*210mm*1.2mm
Tags: tea, book, wood, copper, traditional
Production Technology: Beech wood, red copper, painting, laser engraving machine,
Design Challenge: The combination of the power, speed, and engraving material density of the laser machine is the key to improving use rate of the finished product rate. I have tested more than 30 times in total.
Research: Re-editing ancient books with Adobe Illustrator, then using laser engraving mechanisms for finished products, controlling the balance between laser engraving machines and paints is the most difficult part of the project
Inspiration: As Laozi recorded in the Tao Te Ching "nature from the way, and the way from what is beneath abstraction". There is a close relationship between tea culture and traditional Chinese Taoist culture. The ancient people enjoyed the return to nature and self in the process of drinking tea,coinciding with the Taoist concept of "harmony between man and nature".
Project Duration: Production starts in 2017 and ends in Beijing in 2018
Operation Flow: Open the lid of the book from the middle to the sides, take out the whole book, each page of the book is made of wood, can be taken out separately to watch
Image Credits: Designer Junheng Li，The classic of tea，2018