The Classic of Tea Munus Primarium: Formatio Libri by Junheng Li

The Classic of Tea Munus Primarium: Formatio Libri by Junheng Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Typographia Competition Category.

AesTypographia· 2020

The Classic of Tea Munus Primarium: Formatio Libri

by Junheng Li

Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Typographia Category

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The Design

About The Classic of Tea Munus Primarium: Formatio Libri

Textus Libri: Classicus Theae est formatio libri fundata in antiquissimo monumento scripto de thea noto. Liber et involucrum eius ex ligno fagi omnino confecta sunt. Titulus centralis in cupro rubro sculptus est. Quaeque pagina est tabula lignea quae separari et seorsum inspici potest. Operculum a medio ad utrumque latus aperitur, ita ut liber integer extolli possit. Paginae machina laseris incidente et pigmento factae sunt. Electio materiarum ad antiquam culturam Sinicam refert, quae in harundine, ligno et aere inscribebatur, iisdem materiis quae culturae theae antiquae iunguntur.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

The Classic of Tea Munus Primarium: Formatio Libri victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur The Classic of Tea Munus Primarium: Formatio Libri rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. The Classic of Tea Munus Primarium: Formatio Libri necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

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