Time Capsule Bokdesign by Yuchen Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award i Jern in Trykk- og Publisert Mediedesign Competition Category.

JernTrykk· 2022

Time Capsule Bokdesign

by Yuchen Chen

Client: Absolutely Shock You Studio

A' Design Award i Jern Winner in Trykk Category

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The Design

About Time Capsule Bokdesign

Boken handler om grafisk designs historie. Designer ønsker å engasjere publikum i en mer dynamisk narrativ opplevelse og samtidig hjelpe dem til å forstå boken lettere. For å holde publikums interesse, legge til interaktivitet til boken, får designeren boken til å se ut som en lang historie som kulturelle relikvier, denne boken forsøker å veilede publikum til å bruke støvforebyggende hansker og ta opp pensel og forstørrelsesglass, opptre som arkeolog for å forske historien. Det er en bok som krever publikums handlinger og også at den skal håndteres og oppleves.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Jern

Time Capsule Bokdesign er vinner av A' Design Award i Jern, en prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles gode design som oppfyller de profesjonelle og industrielle kravene man forventer av veldesignede skaperverk. Jernvinnere viser stor dyktighet, høy spesialisering, ekspertforståelse og kreativ kapasitet hos skaperne. Time Capsule Bokdesign forventes å være et høyt ansett, beundret og verdsatt skaperverk som er praktisk og nyskapende. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Jern, integrerer bransjens beste praksis og har kompetente tekniske egenskaper knyttet til kunnskap og talent. Time Capsule Bokdesign respekteres for sin grundighet og er utformet for å gi forbedringer i livskvalitet som bidrar til å gjøre verden til et bedre sted.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The content of the book is about the history of graphic design. The book design inspired by archaeology. Designer make the book look like have long history as cultural relics. He choose unusual book design to guide the audience to wear dust prevention gloves and take up brush and magnifier, act like archaeologist to research the history. It is a book that requires the audience’s actions and also to be handled and experienced.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 220 mm x Height 200 mm, 15 independent pages with package box.
Tags: book design, typography, history, graphic design, research, archaeologist, antique
Production Technology: The Book Design includeing Typography Design, Layout Design, Graphic Design and Package Design. it's not the traditional book binding design.
The book design introduces the concept of archaeology to make the audience have more fun interacting with this book.
Design Challenge: It was a very urgent design case which only have one week to realized from concept to the real book. It was big challenge for designer.
Research: This book design introduces the concept of archaeology to make the audience have more fun interacting with this book. Designer don’t want to use the traditional book binding design. He make the pages independent and mark the page number on each paper, he burning the edge of the page and sprinkle white powder on the pages, which make it look like have long history as cultural relics. he make the text word size too small to invisible, The unusual layout design to guide the audience to wear dust prevention gloves and take up brush and magnifier, act like archaeologist to research the history.
Inspiration: Designer want to engage audience in a more dynamic narrative experience and help them at the same time to understand the book more easily. he make the pages independent and mark the page number on each paper, he burning the edge of the page and sprinkle white powder on the pages, which make it look like have long history as cultural relics. The text word size also designed too small to invisible on purpose, which is have to use magnifier to read. This unusual book design will guide the audience act like archaeologist to research the history.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2013 in Hangzhou and finished in January 2013 in Hangzhou.
Operation Flow: Designer did not choose the traditional book binding design. He make the pages independent and mark the page number on each paper, he burning the edge of the page and sprinkle white powder on the pages, which make it look like have long history as cultural relics. he make the text word size too small to invisible, The unusual layout design to guide the audience to wear dust prevention gloves and take up brush and magnifier, act like archaeologist to research the history.