Plastic Ìwé by Lu Zhao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award in Àpẹẹrẹ Ìtẹ̀wé àti Àtẹ̀jáde Competition Category.

FàdákàÌtẹ̀wé· 2021

Plastic Ìwé

by Lu Zhao

Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award Winner in Ìtẹ̀wé Category

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The Design

About Plastic Ìwé

Plastic jẹ́ ìwé tí a fi ọwọ́ ṣe láti inú pákó ike tí a ti ju sílẹ̀ dípò ìwé. A kó àwọn àpò ike tí a ti ju sílẹ̀ àti àwọn ike mìíràn tí a ti lò jọ, a sì fi ọwọ́ gé wọn di ojú ewé. Ọ̀rọ̀ inú rẹ̀ àti àwọn àmì tí a lẹ̀ mọ́ ọn ń fara wé àwòrán ọ̀wọ́n àwọn ọmọdé, tí ó fún àwọn ojú ewé ní ìwà tí ó rọrùn tí ó sì mọ́. Gọ́ọ̀mù lásán kì í so ike papọ̀, nítorí náà a fi ike gbígbóná-yọ́ so àwọn ojú ewé pọ̀. Ìwé náà ní ìbú 225 mm, ìjìnlẹ̀ 325 mm àti gíga 10 mm. Ète rẹ̀ ni láti tún lo ohun èlò tí a ti ju sílẹ̀ àti láti gbé ìmọ̀ nípa ìdọ̀tí ike sókè.

The Recognition

About the Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award

Plastic Ìwé jẹ́ olùborí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award, ìdánimọ̀ onípọ̀nlé lọ́nà àrà ọ̀tọ̀ tí a fún àwọn àwòṣe ìpele gíga jùlọ tó dára tó sì ń kan ọkàn. Àwọn olùborí Fàdákà jẹ́ àwọn iṣẹ́ tó ń tàn yòò gidigidi tó sì ní ìṣẹ̀dá púpọ̀ tí wọ́n ń ṣàfihàn ìmọ̀ ìjìnlẹ̀, ẹ̀bùn àti ìmọ̀ràn àwọn olùṣàwòṣe wọn. A retí pé Plastic Ìwé yóò jẹ́ iṣẹ́ àgbàyanu, àpẹẹrẹ rere, ti ọ̀jáfáfá lọ́nà tó ṣe pàtàkì tó sì ní ìmúṣẹ̀dá tuntun jinlẹ̀. Àwòṣe tó borí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award yìí jẹ́ ohun ìmúṣẹ̀dá tó hàn gbangba gidigidi tí a mọrírì tó ń ṣe anfàní tó sì ń tì ààlà iṣẹ́ ọnà, sáyẹ́ǹsì, àwòṣe àti ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ síwájú. Plastic Ìwé jẹ́ ẹ̀dá tí ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ ń ṣe ìlara, tó ń jí ìfẹ́ inú, tó ń mú ìmọ̀lára rere wá tó sì ń jí ìyàlẹ́nu àti ìyanu.

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