Plastic Buku by Lu Zhao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Perak in Desain Media Cetak dan Terbitan Competition Category.

PerakCetak· 2021

Plastic Buku

by Lu Zhao

A' Design Award Perak Winner in Cetak Category

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The Design

About Plastic Buku

Plastic adalah buku buatan tangan yang dibuat dari sampah plastik alih-alih kertas. Kantong plastik bekas dan plastik terpakai lainnya dikumpulkan lalu dipotong dengan tangan menjadi halaman-halaman. Teks dan stikernya meniru sapuan kuas anak-anak, sehingga memberi karakter yang sederhana dan lugu pada setiap halaman. Lem biasa tidak dapat merekatkan plastik, sehingga halaman-halamannya disatukan dengan plastik lem panas (hot-melt). Buku ini berukuran lebar 225 mm, kedalaman 325 mm, dan tinggi 10 mm. Tujuannya adalah memanfaatkan kembali material limbah serta meningkatkan kesadaran akan pencemaran plastik.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Plastic Buku adalah pemenang A' Design Award Perak, pengakuan yang sangat bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain kelas atas yang indah dan mengesankan. Pemenang Perak adalah karya yang sangat cemerlang dan sangat kreatif yang menggambarkan keahlian, bakat, dan ketajaman luar biasa para desainernya. Plastic Buku diharapkan menjadi karya yang menakjubkan, etalase keahlian, sangat profesional, dan sangat inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Perak ini adalah penemuan yang sangat menonjol dan dikagumi yang bermanfaat bagi dan memajukan batas-batas seni, sains, desain, dan teknologi. Plastic Buku adalah kreasi yang sangat dicemburui yang membangkitkan keinginan, membawa perasaan positif, dan memercikkan keheranan dan kekaguman.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: How long will plastics stay with the world in the future and how much influence will it have on the future generations of the earth? This is a question worth pondering. We set out from this, using the waste plastics in our lives as materials, designing and cutting purely by hand, and made a unique "plastic book". In the book, we imitated children's handwriting to trigger a warning of plastic pollution to all mankind.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 225mm x Depth 325mm x Height 10mm
Tags: plastic,book design,handmade,pollution,environmental protection
Production Technology: In this design, the text and stickers are made by imitating children's brushstrokes, and the manual is fully used to render a kind of innocence. On the other hand, waste plastics of various materials are used for cutting.
Design Challenge: The problem we have to face in design activities is the instability of plastics, because plastics present a soft texture, which is difficult to cut accurately by hand. Secondly, the methods we need to use contradict some rules of book design, and it is difficult to even tell that the work produced at the beginning is a book. Because we want to replace the most important material in book design, we need to make it with different textures of plastic to achieve a readable effect.
Research: This work mainly studies whether it is feasible to replace common paper book design with plastic. In the work, we study the book binding method for plastic, because plastic cannot be bonded by ordinary glue. If nails are used to fix it, it will increase the plastic Stability, so we use hot-melt plastic to fix it.
Inspiration: There are four courier spots around our school, and discarded plastic bags can be seen everywhere every day. When we found children chewing plastic bags around the express delivery point one day, we realized that the plastic pollution around us was very serious. So we came up with the idea of making plastic books. Such a book is not only the reuse of waste plastics, but also a way to remind people by means of brochures. Therefore, we adopted the theory of book design and picture books.
Project Duration: The project started in October 2019 in Dalian, Liaoning and finished in November 2019 in Dalian, Liaoning.
Operation Flow: Production process: research-collecting materials and production tools-cutting page size-content design planning-pasting production-binding into a book
Team Members: Lu Zhao
Ruhe Zhang
Lin Huang
Yijia Sun
Jiayi Shen
Baofeng Huang