Plastic Akwụkwọ by Lu Zhao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha in Nhazi Mbipụta na Mgbasa Ozi Ebipụtara Competition Category.

ỌlaọchaMbipụta· 2021

Plastic Akwụkwọ

by Lu Zhao

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha Winner in Mbipụta Category

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The Design

About Plastic Akwụkwọ

Plastic bụ akwụkwọ e ji aka mee site na plastic mkpofu kama iji akwụkwọ. A na-anakọta akpa plastic a tụfuru na plastic ndị ọzọ e jibuworo mee ihe wee jiri aka bee ha ka ọ bụrụ ibe akwụkwọ. Ederede na ihe mmado ndị ahụ na-eṅomi mkpịsị mgbu nke ụmụaka, na-enye ibe akwụkwọ ahụ àgwà dị mfe na nke aka dị ọcha. Gluu nkịtị anaghị ejikọ plastic, ya mere e ji plastic na-agbaze ọkụ jikọọ ibe akwụkwọ ahụ. Akwụkwọ ahụ na-atụ 225 mm n'obosara, 325 mm n'omimi na 10 mm n'ịdị elu. Ebumnobi ya bụ iji ihe mkpofu mee ihe ọzọ na iwelite mmata banyere mmetọ plastic.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha

Plastic Akwụkwọ meriri A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị dị n'ọkwa kachasị elu, mara mma ma na-eju anya. Ndị meriri na Ọlaọcha bụ ọrụ na-egbu maramara nke ukwuu ma dị oke nzụlite nke na-egosi ọmarịcha ihe ọmụma, talent na nghọta nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na Plastic Akwụkwọ ga-abụ ọrụ dị ịtụnanya, ihe nlereanya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị omimi n'ihe ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha bụ ihe e mepụtara dị oke ịrịba ama, nke a na-eto nke na-erite uru ma na-ebuga oke nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ n'ihu. Plastic Akwụkwọ bụ ihe e kere eke ọtụtụ ndị na-ekwo ekworo ya nke na-akpali ọchịchọ, na-eweta mmetụta ọma ma na-akpali ịtụnanya.

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