Plastic Aklat by Lu Zhao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award na Pilak in Disenyo ng Nakalimbag at Nailathalang Medya Competition Category.

PilakLimbag· 2021

Plastic Aklat

by Lu Zhao

A' Design Award na Pilak Winner in Limbag Category

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The Design

About Plastic Aklat

Ang Plastic ay isang gawang-kamay na aklat na gawa sa basurang plastik sa halip na papel. Ang mga itinapong plastik na supot at iba pang gamit na plastik ay tinipon at ginupit nang manu-mano upang maging mga pahina. Ang teksto at ang mga sticker ay gumagaya sa mga hagod-pinsel ng mga bata, na nagbibigay sa mga pahina ng simple at inosenteng katangian. Ang karaniwang pandikit ay hindi nakakadikit sa plastik, kaya ang mga pahina ay pinagdikit gamit ang hot-melt na plastik. Ang aklat ay may sukat na 225 mm ang lapad, 325 mm ang lalim at 10 mm ang taas. Ang layunin ay muling gamitin ang basurang materyal at itaas ang kamalayan tungkol sa polusyong dulot ng plastik.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award na Pilak

Ang Plastic Aklat ay nagwagi ng A' Design Award na Pilak, isang pambihirang prestihiyosong pagkilalang iginagawad sa mga disenyong nasa pinakamataas na antas, nakabibighani at kahanga-hanga. Ang mga nagwagi ng Pilak ay mga likhang lubhang makinang at napakamalikhain na naglalarawan sa pambihirang kadalubhasaan, talento at talas ng isip ng kanilang mga tagapagdisenyo. Inaasahang ang Plastic Aklat ay isang kahanga-hangang likhang huwaran na kapansin-pansing propesyonal at malalim na makabago. Ang disenyong ito na nagwagi ng A' Design Award na Pilak ay isang lubhang kapansin-pansin at hinahangaang imbensyon na nakikinabang at nagpapaunlad sa mga hangganan ng sining, agham, disenyo at teknolohiya. Ang Plastic Aklat ay isang likhang labis na kinaiinggitan na gumigising ng mga hangarin, nagdadala ng positibong damdamin at nagpapasiklab ng pagkamangha at pagkabighani.

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