The Classic of Tea Desain Buku by Junheng Li

The Classic of Tea Desain Buku by Junheng Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Perunggu in Desain Media Cetak dan Terbitan Competition Category.

PerungguCetak· 2020

The Classic of Tea Desain Buku

by Junheng Li

A' Design Award Perunggu Winner in Cetak Category

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The Design

About The Classic of Tea Desain Buku

The Classic of Tea adalah sebuah desain buku yang didasarkan pada catatan tertulis tertua yang diketahui tentang teh. Buku beserta kemasannya dibuat sepenuhnya dari kayu beech. Judul di bagian tengah diukir pada tembaga merah. Setiap halaman berupa panel kayu yang dapat dilepas dan dilihat secara terpisah. Tutupnya terbuka dari bagian tengah ke kedua sisi, sehingga keseluruhan buku dapat diangkat keluar. Halaman-halamannya diproduksi menggunakan mesin ukir laser dan cat. Pemilihan material merujuk pada kebudayaan Tiongkok kuno, yang dicatat pada bambu, kayu, dan perunggu, material yang sama yang terkait dengan budaya teh awal.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perunggu

The Classic of Tea Desain Buku adalah pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu, pengakuan yang sangat bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain luar biasa yang dicirikan oleh kreativitas, kecerdikan, dan ketajaman. Pemenang Perunggu adalah artefak yang sangat terampil dan sangat kreatif yang membuktikan pengalaman luas, imajinasi, dan kelihaian para desainernya. The Classic of Tea Desain Buku diharapkan menjadi objek yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi, dan dicintai, sangat profesional dan inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu ini menyertakan praktik terbaik dalam seni, sains, desain, dan teknologi, dan sangat baik dalam perhatiannya pada detail. The Classic of Tea Desain Buku memuaskan kebutuhan dengan indah, menyentuh keinginan, memikat perasaan, dan menarik rasa ingin tahu.

Behind the Design

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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