Gongche Sketch Book 互动书籍 by Xueqing Chen

Gongche Sketch Book 互动书籍 by Xueqing Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award 银奖 in 印刷与出版媒体设计 Competition Category.

银印刷· 2024

Gongche Sketch Book 互动书籍

by Xueqing Chen

Client: Nanjing University of the Arts

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 印刷 Category

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The Design

About Gongche Sketch Book 互动书籍

《工尺谱手稿本》是一本以工尺谱为主题的互动书籍,工尺谱是中国传统的音乐记谱体系。本书呈现了一套重新设计的工尺字符,在笔画走向、粗细与字号上加以精炼,以提升辨识度。书籍结构中内嵌了一组30音手摇八音盒机芯,与谱面相对应的打孔纸带可插入机芯,转动手柄即可奏出书页上所记录的音高。裸露铁线装订的硬壳精装工艺,使书脊与层叠的书页一览无余。该设计让读者能够通过视觉、听觉与触觉多重感官来研读工尺谱。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Gongche Sketch Book 互动书籍是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Gongche Sketch Book 互动书籍将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Gongche Sketch Book 互动书籍是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Through innovative design, Gongche Sketch Book facilitates a profound understanding of the charm of Gongche notation among people from different cultures, languages, and eras. It serves as a cultural conduit, connecting the past with the present, allowing the enchanting resonance of Gongche to spread globally.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 160mm × length 210mm × height 30mm
Tags: Gongchipu; multi-sensory; redesign; listening book; music interpretation
Production Technology: When designing the binding, bare wire hardcover is a special binding method, and its handmade texture can also echo the content and cultural heritage of the book. In addition, the exposed form of the spine shows the layering of the pages, and coupled with the feeling of hand touch, the reader's body and mind can be compared to enjoying the rhythm of music.
Design Challenge: In the process of modern character drawing for Gongchipu, it is not only necessary to ensure the standardization and readability of the symbols, but also to integrate them with other musical notation forms and the metric Pu character system for easy understanding. When redesigning the musical notation symbols, attention was paid to the accurate expression, conciseness and ease of understanding of each character, while also making these characters visually impactful and recognizable. On the basis of retaining the characteristics of traditional Gongchi Pu notation, the We conducted in-depth research and optimization on glyph direction, stroke thickness, symbol size, etc., and then created a novel, beautiful, and easy-to-understand Gongchipu character system.
Research: none
Inspiration: At the core of Gongche Sketch Book is interactive design, allowing readers to delve into the culture of Gongche notation in a user-friendly manner. Through a comprehensive experience involving sight, hearing, and touch, it sparks interest in Gongche notation, infusing new vitality into cultural heritage. Friendly interaction makes learning easy and enjoyable.
Project Duration: The project will start in Nanjing in June 2022, be completed in Nanjing in May 2023, and will be exhibited in Nanjing in May 2023.
Operation Flow: The 30-note hand-cranked music box movement is used as the core mechanism and combined with the book structure. Its characteristic is that a paper tape with holes punched at the corresponding note position is loaded into the mechanical structure, and the hand rocker is shaken, and the punched paper tape passes through the sound comb to emit sounds. corresponding pitch. Using this principle, the musical notation of Gongchipu corresponds to the pitch hole position of the paper tape, so that after the reader has a preliminary understanding of the image and text, he can further insert the paper tape corresponding to Gongchipu into the movement. The interactive method further understands Gongchipu from the auditory dimension.