Plastic Buku by Lu Zhao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Perak in Desain Media Cetak lan 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 minangka buku gaweyan tangan sing digawe saka plastik sampah tinimbang kertas. Kanthong plastik sing dibuwang lan plastik bekas liyane dikumpulake lan dikethok nganggo tangan dadi kaca-kaca. Tulisan lan stikere niru sapuan kuas bocah-bocah, saengga menehi kaca-kacane watak sing prasaja lan polos. Lem biasa ora bisa nglengket plastik, mula kaca-kacane dilengketake nganggo plastik leleh panas. Buku iki ukurane 225 mm ambane, 325 mm jerone, lan 10 mm dhuwure. Tujuwane yaiku kanggo migunakake maneh bahan sampah lan kanggo ngundhakake kesadaran babagan polusi plastik.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Plastic Buku menang A' Design Award Perak, pangenalan sing prestisius banget sing diparingake marang desain tingkat dhuwur, endah lan nggumunake. Pemenang Perak iku karya sing sumunar banget lan kreatif banget sing nggambarake kaprigelan, bakat lan kaweruh para desainer. Plastic Buku dikarepake dadi karya sing nggumunake, conto teladan, profesional banget lan inovatif banget. Desain sing menang A' Design Award Perak iki iku panemuan sing luar biasa banget lan dikagumi sing paring manfaat lan nyurung maju wates seni, sains, desain lan teknologi. Plastic Buku iku ciptaan sing akeh sing ngirenake sing nggugah kekarepan, nggawa perasaan positif lan nuwuhake gumun lan kagum.

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