Bronze Print · 2020
The Classic of Tea Books Design
by Junheng Li
- Bronze A' Design Award 2020 in Print
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About The Classic of Tea Books Design
The Classic of Tea is a book design based on the earliest known written record of tea. The book and its packaging are made entirely of beech wood. The central title is carved in red copper. Each page is a wooden panel that can be removed and viewed separately. The lid opens from the middle towards both sides, so the complete book can be lifted out. The pages are produced with a laser engraving machine and paint. The choice of materials refers to ancient Chinese culture, which was recorded on bamboo, wood and bronze, the same materials linked to early tea culture.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Classic of Tea Books Design is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. The Classic of Tea Books Design is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. The Classic of Tea Books Design splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- Redesigned The Classic of Tea, which is the world's earliest book recording tea. The book is wholly made and packaged by beech wood. The central title is carved with red copper. Ancient Chinese culture before Christ was mostly handed down by bamboo, trees and bronze, and tea culture also evolved from these three materials.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- packaging:230mm*230mm*60mm
page:210mm*210mm*1.2mm - Tags
- tea, book, wood, copper, traditional
- Production Technology
- Beech wood, red copper, painting, laser engraving machine,
- Design Challenge
- The combination of the power, speed, and engraving material density of the laser machine is the key to improving use rate of the finished product rate. I have tested more than 30 times in total.
- Research
- Re-editing ancient books with Adobe Illustrator, then using laser engraving mechanisms for finished products, controlling the balance between laser engraving machines and paints is the most difficult part of the project
- Inspiration
- As Laozi recorded in the Tao Te Ching "nature from the way, and the way from what is beneath abstraction". There is a close relationship between tea culture and traditional Chinese Taoist culture. The ancient people enjoyed the return to nature and self in the process of drinking tea,coinciding with the Taoist concept of "harmony between man and nature".
- Project Duration
- Production starts in 2017 and ends in Beijing in 2018
- Operation Flow
- Open the lid of the book from the middle to the sides, take out the whole book, each page of the book is made of wood, can be taken out separately to watch
- Image Credits
- Designer Junheng Li，The classic of tea，2018