Hong Kong Book Fair 2022 公众展览 by Dury Chin

Hong Kong Book Fair 2022 公众展览 by Dury Chin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 活动与事件设计 Competition Category.

铜活动· 2024

Hong Kong Book Fair 2022 公众展览

by Dury Chin

Client: Hong Kong Trade Development Council

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 活动 Category

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The Design

About Hong Kong Book Fair 2022 公众展览

2022年香港书展是于湾仔香港会议展览中心举办的公众展览。第32届书展占地55100平方米,汇聚超过700家参展商。艺廊为整个活动的核心区域,划分为三大主题区:城市文学、香港建筑及香港味道。展板采用可重复使用的铝框架构建,外覆乙烯基材料、聚碳酸酯及玻璃,并于场外预制及测试完成。场内铺设可生物降解地毯,令整个制作过程更具可持续性。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Hong Kong Book Fair 2022 公众展览是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Hong Kong Book Fair 2022 公众展览将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Hong Kong Book Fair 2022 公众展览出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Being the first large-scale event in 2022 consists of 55100 m2 exhibition space, the 32nd Hong Kong Book Fair and associated events brought together more than 700 exhibitors offering a diverse experience for shoppers. Since 1990, the Fair has developed from a mere promotion platform for the industry to an annual territory-wide major reading and cultural event for the public of Hong Kong.
Dimensions & Packaging: The area of the Art Gallery: City Literature was approximately: 47mL x 4mD x 2.5mH, HK Architecture was approximate: 29mL x 10mD x 2.5mH, Taste of Hong Kong was approximate: 20mL x 10mD x 2.5mH. Both areas are surrounded by aluminum system structures with polycarbonate panels, and glass showcases with system structure.
Tags: Book Fair, Hong Kong, History and City Literature, HKTDC
Production Technology: Due to the limited setup day, the display items were prefabricated and tested off-site prior to being reassembled onsite. These included the rotatable book stand, display props, and all flipping icons. All panels were made from reusable aluminum structure frames covered with vinyl, polycarbonate, and glass finish. The audio-visual equipment, TV screen, and display furniture were hired by other parties. To be more sustainable in the overall production biodegradable carpets were used.
Design Challenge: 3 identical zone: City literature, HK Architecture and Taste of HK was harmony cohere as an Art Gallery of 2022. Aptly adopting the flipping concept on old literature and objects, dynamic transparent reflective planes and an area for infinite reflection completed the hardware for the space. The spatial experience design was completed by a series of bespoke video content highlighting various literature authors, photos, and cultural-related objects.
Research: Our design rationale was to create a visual series combining with HK Traditional Culture and Objects. This project combined special displays of Art Gallery Exhibitions for visitors to explore HK Food Culture, Historical Authors and Architecture Photos as well as a Kids Comic Area to feature old comic book covers. Following the central theme Inspirational and Motivational Reading, the HK Book Fair 2022 introduced some of the best inspirational authors and books of this genre to renders, aiming to bring HK citizens together and encourage them to seek out motivational books that could help people to face the challenges ahead after the pandemic.
Inspiration: A Neo-composition of Hong Kong heritage and traditional symbols. By using elements from old literatures and objects, book binding and flipping methods as the core to create a unique graphic series of Hong Kong Book Fair. In order to portray the key message of each display, we focused on the interplay between bold icons and solid colors, then turned these to different illustrations expressing the interests of reading books.
Project Duration: The duration for the project took 3 months from initial briefing to onsite completion. It was launched from 20 to 26 July 2022 and ran for 7 days. HK Book Fair was located at the Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition Centre HKCEC in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Operation Flow: Art Gallery was the focus of Hong Kong Book Fair every year. This year, it was composed of: City Literature, and HK Architecture and Taste of Hong Kong three zones. First, the spreading of descriptive panels creates a museum-look-like atmosphere to enhance the visitor experience by different literature authors. Second, to collaborate with National Geographic, selected photos of iconic Hong Kong architecture photo were spatially displayed on a semi-transparent panel to create a Gallery look-alike. Third, an eye-catching color zoning with various posters, packaging, news clipping, miniatures, and books, to compose nostalgia for Hong Kong’s food culture. Three individual Zones worked in harmony to create a journey for the visitor to walk through, to experience an exceptional and unique sense of Hong Kong’s culture.
Team Members: HKTDC Creative Department
Image Credits: Hong Kong Trade Development Council