Time Capsule 书籍设计 by Yuchen Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 印刷与出版媒体设计 Competition Category.

铁印刷· 2022

Time Capsule 书籍设计

by Yuchen Chen

Client: Absolutely Shock You Studio

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 印刷 Category

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The Design

About Time Capsule 书籍设计

这本书讲述了平面设计的历史。设计师希望让观众参与更具活力的叙事体验，同时帮助他们更轻松地理解这本书。为了抓住观众的兴趣，增加书中的互动性，设计师让这本书看起来像有悠久历史的文物，本书试图引导观众戴上防尘手套，拿起画笔和放大镜，像考古学家一样进行研究历史。这是一本需要观众去行动，也需要去处理、去体验的书。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Time Capsule 书籍设计是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Time Capsule 书籍设计将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Time Capsule 书籍设计因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The content of the book is about the history of graphic design. The book design inspired by archaeology. Designer make the book look like have long history as cultural relics. He choose unusual book design to guide the audience to wear dust prevention gloves and take up brush and magnifier, act like archaeologist to research the history. It is a book that requires the audience’s actions and also to be handled and experienced.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 220 mm x Height 200 mm, 15 independent pages with package box.
Tags: book design, typography, history, graphic design, research, archaeologist, antique
Production Technology: The Book Design includeing Typography Design, Layout Design, Graphic Design and Package Design. it's not the traditional book binding design.
The book design introduces the concept of archaeology to make the audience have more fun interacting with this book.
Design Challenge: It was a very urgent design case which only have one week to realized from concept to the real book. It was big challenge for designer.
Research: This book design introduces the concept of archaeology to make the audience have more fun interacting with this book. Designer don’t want to use the traditional book binding design. He make the pages independent and mark the page number on each paper, he burning the edge of the page and sprinkle white powder on the pages, which make it look like have long history as cultural relics. he make the text word size too small to invisible, The unusual layout design to guide the audience to wear dust prevention gloves and take up brush and magnifier, act like archaeologist to research the history.
Inspiration: Designer want to engage audience in a more dynamic narrative experience and help them at the same time to understand the book more easily. he make the pages independent and mark the page number on each paper, he burning the edge of the page and sprinkle white powder on the pages, which make it look like have long history as cultural relics. The text word size also designed too small to invisible on purpose, which is have to use magnifier to read. This unusual book design will guide the audience act like archaeologist to research the history.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2013 in Hangzhou and finished in January 2013 in Hangzhou.
Operation Flow: Designer did not choose the traditional book binding design. He make the pages independent and mark the page number on each paper, he burning the edge of the page and sprinkle white powder on the pages, which make it look like have long history as cultural relics. he make the text word size too small to invisible, The unusual layout design to guide the audience to wear dust prevention gloves and take up brush and magnifier, act like archaeologist to research the history.