Love Letters Kalèndher dening Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou

Karya Love Letters Kalèndher dening Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou minangka pemenang sing diajeni banget saka A' Design Award Wesi 2026 sing bergengsi ing Kategori Kompetisi Desain Sosial.

WesiSosial· 2026

Love Letters Kalèndher

dening Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou

Klien: Yezi Designs

Pemenang A' Design Award Wesi ing Kategori Sosial

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Pemenang Penghargaan Terverifikasi

Verifikasi Status Penghargaan kanggo #180625

Kunjungi Situs Deleng ing A' Design Award Siaran Pers Lencana Penghargaan

Warna

Desaine

Babagan Love Letters Kalèndher

Love Letters iku kalèndher sing dirancang kanggo nyambungake urip saben dina karo kesadaran babagan keanekaragaman hayati. Saben kertu saka rolas kertu ngemot layang saka spesies sing kaancam punah, sing ngajak refleksi, janji pribadi, lan nandhani tanggal-tanggal penting. Saben kertu bisa dilempit dadi struktur sing bisa ngadeg dhewe tanpa jilidan, lan sabanjure bisa dilebokake ing amplop kertase kanggo dikirim liwat pos utawa disimpen minangka arsip. Set iki dicithak nganggo teknik offset ing kertas tanpa lapisan sing wis duwe sertifikat FSC lan diwadhahi ing kothak kertas model laci sing bisa digunakake manèh minangka barang kenang-kenangan utawa piranti pasinaon.

Pangakuan

Babagan A' Design Award Wesi

Love Letters Kalèndher menang A' Design Award Wesi, pangenalan sing prestisius sing diparingake marang desain sing apik sing nyukupi kabutuhan profesional lan industri sing dikarepake saka ciptaan sing dirancang kanthi apik. Pemenang Wesi nuduhake katrampilan sing gedhe, spesialisasi sing dhuwur, pangerten ahli lan kapasitas kreatif para penciptane. Love Letters Kalèndher dikarepake dadi ciptaan sing dihargai banget, dikagumi lan ditresnani sing praktis lan inovatif. Desain sing menang A' Design Award Wesi iki nggabungake praktik industri sing paling apik lan nduweni ciri teknis sing kompeten sing disambung karo kawruh lan bakat. Love Letters Kalèndher diajeni amarga ketelitiane lan dirancang kanggo nyedhiyakake paningkatan kualitas urip sing mbiyantu ndadekake donya panggonan sing luwih apik.

Ing Mburi Desain

Kit Pers

Kredit, anggota tim lan detail teknis sing diwenehake dening desainer.

Sifat Unik: This project reimagines the calendar as a tool for emotional storytelling and environmental action. Each month features a letter from an endangered species, inviting reflection, personal pledges, and meaningful dates. The foldable card becomes both calendar and time capsule, using ritual, empathy, and biodegradable materials to turn awareness into active care, a purpose led experience connecting biodiversity loss to daily life.
Ukuran & Kemasan: The finished product measures 110 mm × 230 mm × 40 mm. The calendar set includes 12 illustrated calendar cards, 12 paper envelopes, and a calendar storage box. The cards are designed to be folded into a self standing three dimensional structure without additional binding. After use, each card can be placed into its corresponding envelope for mailing or archiving. The complete set is housed in a paper based calendar box suitable for storage and distribution.
Tag: Emotional calendar, Eco conscious design, Endangered animals, Interactive daily ritual, Foldable cards, User engagement, Mailable cards, Educational gift, Modular structure
Teknologi Produksi: The calendar is produced using FSC certified uncoated paper with high opacity to enhance durability and color accuracy. Offset printing is applied for production, combined with spot color control to ensure consistent tones across animal illustrations in different batches. Multiple rounds of prototyping and user testing were conducted to optimize the calendar’s size, thickness, and interaction details for daily use.
Tantangan Desain: The main challenge was integrating a daily use object with abstract concepts to encourage genuine user engagement. This required designing a full interaction flow, from using the calendar, writing messages, to mailing actions, and adding playful, foldable features to the calendar cards. Constraints included production feasibility, material limits, and balancing usability with emotional and eco conscious objectives.
Riset: Type of research: iterative design and user centered study. Objectives: to create an engaging, emotionally meaningful calendar. Methodology: multiple prototyping rounds and user testing. Tools: physical prototypes and feedback sessions. Participants: 15 users evaluated interaction and usability. Results: optimized foldable structure, size, and display clarity. Insights: users valued emotional engagement and eco consciousness. Impact: informs sustainable, interactive product design for daily life.
Inspirasi: This project makes biodiversity loss personal and actionable by breaking it into monthly rituals, reflection, pledges, date marking, and small acts of care. Drawer style box and red envelopes create a sense of reveal, while foldable calendar cards combine animal storytelling with practical use. Guided prompts turn awareness into everyday action, embedding ecological urgency into time based rituals.
Durasi Proyek: The project started in March 2025 in Georgia and Michigan, USA, and completed prototype testing and design refinements by September 2025. Since then, it has been in ongoing serial production, ensuring quality, consistency, and readiness for distribution.
Alur Operasi: Most calendars function as tools, this one is designed as a relationship. The project bridges personal ritual and planetary care through a system that encourages reflection, action, and emotional continuity. Love Letters transforms a calendar into a twelve month exchange between users and endangered animals, packaging empathy and awareness through monthly interaction. The drawer style outer box symbolizes preservation and is designed for second life use as a keepsake or educational object.
Paten: Copyrights belong to Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou, 2026
Anggota Tim: Yefan Liu
Zilan Zhou
Jiayi Chen
Kangwen Shi
Kredit Gambar: #Main Image: Photographer Yefan Liu, A Calendar of Love Letters, 2025.
#Image 1: Photographer Yefan Liu, A Calendar of Love Letters, 2025.
#Image 2: Photographer Yefan Liu, A Calendar of Love Letters, 2025.
#Image 3: Photographer Yefan Liu, A Calendar of Love Letters, 2025.
#Image 4: Photographer Yefan Liu, A Calendar of Love Letters, 2025.