After a Bird Fell Down تصویری کتاب by Shu Wei Chang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award کانسی انعام in پرنٹ اور شائع شدہ میڈیا ڈیزائن Competition Category.
کانسیپرنٹ· 2022
After a Bird Fell Down تصویری کتاب
Client: Shu-Wei Chang
A' Design Award کانسی انعام Winner in پرنٹ Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #130690The Design
About After a Bird Fell Down تصویری کتاب
"آفٹر اے برڈ فیل ڈاؤن" ایک ایسی تصویری کتاب ہے جو ہول بک (سوراخ والی کتاب) اور پاپ اپ بک کی ساخت کو یکجا کرتی ہے۔ کتاب کی پیمائش 105 × 150 ملی میٹر ہے اور اس کی موٹائی تقریباً 27 ملی میٹر ہے، جو ایک چھوٹے پرندے کے حجم کے قریب ہے۔ جیسے جیسے صفحات پلٹے جاتے ہیں، سوراخ بڑا ہوتا جاتا ہے اور کونپل مزید بلند ہوتی جاتی ہے، جبکہ کتاب خود پتلی ہوتی چلی جاتی ہے۔ سرورق سفید ہے، اس کی ساخت ریت جیسی ہے اور اس میں ایک دبی ہوئی (ڈیباس) جگہ کے اندر ایک شفاف اسٹیکر رکھا گیا ہے جس پر سبز پَر چھپا ہوا ہے۔ یہ ڈیزائن ظاہر کرتا ہے کہ گزرتا ہوا وقت اپنے ساتھ نقصان بھی لاتا ہے اور نئی نمو بھی۔
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award کانسی انعام
After a Bird Fell Down تصویری کتاب A' Design Award کانسی انعام کا فاتح ہے، جو ان ممتاز ڈیزائنز کو دیا جانے والا انتہائی باوقار اعتراف ہے جو تخلیقی صلاحیت، چالاکی اور ذہانت سے پہچانے جاتے ہیں۔ کانسی کے فاتحین نہایت ماہرانہ اور حیرت انگیز طور پر تخلیقی نمونے ہیں جو اپنے ڈیزائنرز کے وسیع تجربے، تخیل اور ذہانت کی تصدیق کرتے ہیں۔ After a Bird Fell Down تصویری کتاب سے توقع کی جاتی ہے کہ وہ ایک نہایت قدر کی جانے والی، سراہی جانے والی اور عزیز شے ہوگا جو قابل ذکر حد تک پیشہ ورانہ اور جدید ہے۔ A' Design Award کانسی انعام جیتنے والا یہ ڈیزائن فن، سائنس، ڈیزائن اور ٹیکنالوجی میں بہترین طریقوں کو شامل کرتا ہے اور تفصیلات پر توجہ میں ممتاز ہے۔ After a Bird Fell Down تصویری کتاب ضروریات کو خوبصورتی سے پورا کرتا، خواہشات کو چھوتا، جذبات کو مسحور کرتا اور تجسس کو اپیل کرتا ہے۔
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- By combining the structure of hole books and pop-up books, this picture book adopts "volume of book pages" into its narrative. While reading, readers would find out the hole bigger and the sprout taller page by page. With A6 size and thickness which is almost three centimeters, the book size is as big as the dead body of a bird. While readers turn each page and make the book thinner, they can feel that the body of a bird gradually disappears at the same time.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 105mm x 27mm x 150mm, 15pages, back taping, debossing and a transparent sticker on cover
- Tags
- graphic design, editorial, book design, picture book, hole book, pop-up book, artist's book
- Production Technology
- In terms of color, the whole book is purely white as possible. Wish such kind of emptiness could make readers relate to "time," something we cannot see but can feel. Besides, there is no words shown on book cover. Instead there is a debossed rectangular pit where a transparent sticker printed with a green feather is at. It looks like a photo frame sealing a feather, which symbolizes that this book seals the death of the bird in this story.
Second, paper with sand-like texture is chosen for the cover. Hope readers can feel like touching the ground; that is, where this story happens.
Third, the copyright page is decorated with blue sky and is the very beginning of this story as well. So, when readers open this book, they would not only read the sentence, "A bird fell down onto the ground," they can dive into this story from the bird's-eye view from the sky. - Design Challenge
- The most difficult part is how to actualize the binding. Before the final version, the design was revised three or four times. At the beginning, this book was envisioned to be the board book for babies. With the binding method which thick cardboard was pasted in pairs, it was planned that there would be a hole within this book. Yet, it would be almost impossible to make holes on each page aligned. In addition, if
chosen paper is thicker than 1 mm, it couldn't be printed or even bound. After long discussions and several revisions, 0.5mm cardboards with spine taping is chosen. Such binding needs more glue than ordinary books to bind pages firmly. It jams pages as well. So, after the printer made several experiments to find out the most suitable way for flipping through, it became the book you see now. - Inspiration
- It's a story about seeds germinating after a bird died and fell down onto the ground, and the end but also the beginning of life. Via increase and decrease of its volume, this book want to bring out the plot and core concept: "there are two sides to life.", and make readers realize that time passing are not simply about reduction and death. Increase and birth are also what time passing brings.
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