Plastic Igitabo by Lu Zhao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza in Inyandiko Zisohoka Competition Category.

IfezaInyandiko Zisohoka· 2021

Plastic Igitabo

by Lu Zhao

Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza Winner in Inyandiko Zisohoka Category

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The Design

About Plastic Igitabo

Plastiki ni igitabo cyakozwe n'amaboko gikoze muri plastiki y'imyanda aho gukoresha impapuro. Amasashe ya plastiki yatawe n'izindi plastiki zakoreshejwe birakusanywa maze bigacibwa n'amaboko bigakorwamo impapuro. Inyandiko n'ibyapa byigana uburyo abana bakoresha ubwoko bw'ishushanya, bigaha impapuro imico yoroshye kandi itagira uburiganya. Amabati asanzwe ntafata plastiki, bityo impapuro zifatanywa na plastiki ishonze ku bushyuhe. Igitabo gifite ubugari bwa milimetero 225, uburebure bwa milimetero 325 n'ubuhagarike bwa milimetero 10. Intego ni ukongera gukoresha ibikoresho by'imyanda no gukangurira abantu ku byago by'uburozi bwa plastiki.

The Recognition

About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza

Plastic Igitabo ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza, ishimwe ridasanzwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo byo ku rwego rwo hejuru, byiza kandi bikora ku mutima. Abegukanye Ifeza ni ibihangano by'ubuhanga bukomeye kandi bifite guhanga kwinshi, bigaragaza ubuhanga bwimbitse, impano n'ubushishozi bw'ababihanze. Plastic Igitabo biteganyijwe ko izaba igihangano cy'icyitegererezo, gifite ubunyamwuga bukomeye n'udushya twimbitse. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Ifeza ni igihangano kizwi kandi gishimwa, gifasha kugura imbibi z'ubuhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga. Plastic Igitabo ni igihangano benshi bifuza, gikangura ibyifuzo, gitanga amarangamutima meza kandi gitera igitangaza.

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