Plastic 書 by Lu Zhao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 銀獎 in 印刷設計 Competition Category.

銀印刷· 2021

Plastic 書

by Lu Zhao

A' Design Award 銀獎 Winner in 印刷 Category

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The Design

About Plastic 書

《Plastic》係一本以廢棄塑膠取代紙張、純手工製作嘅書。收集棄置嘅膠袋同其他用過嘅塑膠,再逐張手工裁剪成書頁。文字同貼紙模仿小朋友嘅筆觸,令每一頁都帶有一種純樸天真嘅感覺。由於普通膠水黐唔實塑膠,所以書頁係用熱熔膠固定。呢本書闊225毫米、深325毫米、高10毫米。創作意念在於重用廢料,同時喚起大眾對塑膠污染問題嘅關注。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銀獎

Plastic 書是 A' Design Award 銀獎得主，這是授予頂級、華美而令人印象深刻的設計的極為崇高的認可。銀獎得主是極其卓越、極具創造力的作品，展現出其設計師傑出的專業技能、才華與敏銳。預計Plastic 書將成為一件出色的典範之作，兼具非凡的專業性與深刻的創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銀獎的設計是一項備受矚目、令人欽佩的發明，造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Plastic 書是一件令人羨慕的創作，它喚起渴望，帶來積極的情感，並激發驚嘆與讚嘆。

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