Love Letters Calendário por Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou

O design Love Letters Calendário por Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou é um vencedor altamente estimado do prestigioso 2026 A' Design Award de Ferro na Categoria de Competição Design Social.

FerroSocial· 2026

Love Letters Calendário

por Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou

Cliente: Yezi Designs

Vencedor do A' Design Award de Ferro na Categoria Social

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O Design

Sobre Love Letters Calendário

Love Letters é um calendário concebido para ligar o quotidiano à consciencialização para a biodiversidade. Cada um dos doze cartões apresenta uma carta escrita por uma espécie ameaçada de extinção, convidando à reflexão, a compromissos pessoais e à marcação de datas importantes. Cada cartão dobra-se numa estrutura autoportante, sem necessidade de encadernação, podendo depois ser colocado no respetivo envelope de papel para envio ou arquivo. O conjunto é impresso em offset sobre papel não revestido com certificação FSC e acondicionado numa caixa de papel do tipo gaveta, reutilizável como recordação ou como objeto pedagógico.

O Reconhecimento

Sobre o A' Design Award de Ferro

Love Letters Calendário conquistou o A' Design Award de Ferro, um reconhecimento prestigiado atribuído a bons designs que cumprem os requisitos profissionais e industriais esperados de criações bem concebidas. Os vencedores do Ferro demonstram grande habilidade, elevada especialização, compreensão especializada e capacidade criativa dos seus criadores. Espera-se que Love Letters Calendário seja uma criação muito considerada, admirada e estimada, prática e inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ferro integra as melhores práticas do setor e tem características técnicas competentes associadas a conhecimento especializado e talento. Pela sua minúcia, Love Letters Calendário merece respeito e destina-se a proporcionar melhorias na qualidade de vida que ajudam a tornar o mundo num lugar melhor.

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Créditos, membros da equipa e detalhes técnicos fornecidos pelo designer.

Propriedades Únicas: 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.
Dimensões e Embalagem: 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.
Etiquetas: Emotional calendar, Eco conscious design, Endangered animals, Interactive daily ritual, Foldable cards, User engagement, Mailable cards, Educational gift, Modular structure
Tecnologia de Produção: 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.
Desafio de Design: 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.
Pesquisa: 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.
Inspiração: 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.
Duração do Projeto: 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.
Fluxo de Operação: 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.
Patentes: Copyrights belong to Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou, 2026
Membros da Equipa: Yefan Liu
Zilan Zhou
Jiayi Chen
Kangwen Shi
Créditos de Imagem: #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.