Plastic 書籍 by Lu Zhao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銀賞 in 印刷・出版メディアデザイン Competition Category.
銀印刷· 2021
Plastic 書籍
by Lu Zhao
A' Design Award 銀賞 Winner in 印刷 Category
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About Plastic 書籍
『Plastic』は、紙の代わりに廃プラスチックを用いて制作されたハンドメイドの書籍です。廃棄されたレジ袋やその他の使用済みプラスチックを回収し、手作業で裁断してページに仕立てています。本文とステッカーは子どもの筆づかいを模しており、ページに素朴で無垢な表情を与えています。一般的な接着剤ではプラスチックを接合できないため、ページはホットメルト方式で溶着して固定しています。判型は幅225mm、奥行325mm、高さ10mmです。廃材を再利用するとともに、プラスチック汚染への意識を高めることを意図しています。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銀賞
Plastic 書籍は、見事で印象的なハイエンドのデザインに授与される、非常に権威ある評価である A' Design Award 銀賞の受賞作品です。銀賞の受賞作品は、きわめて輝かしく創造性に富んだ作品であり、デザイナーの傑出した専門知識、才能、洞察力を示しています。Plastic 書籍は、素晴らしい代表作であり、驚くほどプロフェッショナルで、深く革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銀賞を受賞したデザインは、非常に注目すべき称賛される発明であり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に寄与し、それを前進させます。Plastic 書籍は、多くの人に羨まれる創造物であり、欲求を呼び覚まし、前向きな感情をもたらし、驚きと感嘆を灯します。
Behind the Design
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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
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