Plastic Pukapuka by Lu Zhao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Hiriwa in Hoahoa Tā me ngā Pāpāho Whakaputa Competition Category.

HiriwaTā· 2021

Plastic Pukapuka

by Lu Zhao

A' Design Award Hiriwa Winner in Tā Category

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The Design

About Plastic Pukapuka

He pukapuka mahi-ā-ringa a Plastic i mahia mai i te kirihou parapara, kaua i te pepa. Ka kohia ngā pēke kirihou i whakarērea me ētahi atu kirihou kua whakamahia, ka tapahia mā te ringa hei whārangi. Ka whakatauira te kupu me ngā pane piri i ngā tā paraihe a ngā tamariki, ka hoatu he āhua māmā, harakore ki ngā whārangi. Kāore te kāpia noa e piri ai te kirihou, nō reira ka mau ngā whārangi mā te kirihou rewa-wera. E 225 mm te whānui o te pukapuka, 325 mm te hōhonu, ā, 10 mm te teitei. Ko te whāinga kia whakamahia anō te rawa parapara me te whakaara i te mōhiotanga ki te parekura kirihou.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hiriwa

Ko Plastic Pukapuka te toa o te A' Design Award Hiriwa, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa taumata teitei rawa, ātaahua me te whakamīharo. Ko ngā toa Hiriwa he mahi tino kanapa, tino auaha e whakaatu ana i te mātanga, te pūmanawa me te mōhio hōhonu o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Plastic Pukapuka he mahi whakamīharo, he tauira, he tino ngaio, he auaha hōhonu. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Hiriwa he hanganga rongonui, whakamīharotia e whai wāhi ana ki te whakawhānui i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ko Plastic Pukapuka he mahi e hae ana te tini, e whakaara ana i ngā hiahia, e kawe mai ana i ngā kare-ā-roto pai, ā, e whakaoho ana i te mīharo.

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