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The Dark Side of the Moon Lettre D'amour par Maria-Luisa Uth

Le design The Dark Side of the Moon Lettre D'amour par Maria-Luisa Uth est un lauréat très estimé du prestigieux 2023 A' Design Award de Bronze dans la catégorie Design Graphique.


BronzeGraphisme· 2023

The Dark Side of the Moon Lettre D'amour

par Maria-Luisa Uth

Client : Fortuna Design Studio

Lauréat du A' Design Award de Bronze dans la catégorie Graphisme

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À propos de The Dark Side of the Moon Lettre D'amour

La face cachée de la Lune est une lettre d'amour racontant une histoire d'amour traditionnelle chinoise. Ce projet célèbre le bon vieux design imprimé en mettant l’accent sur les caractères, les illustrations, la conception graphique et les matériaux. Le paquet de la lettre s'ouvre et la face cachée de la lune devient visible. La lettre est pliée comme un sac à main, une méthode de pliage venue du Japon qui a fait son chemin en Europe au XVIIIe siècle et est devenue populaire comme méthode de pliage des lettres d'amour. Le papier usagé, qui peut être plié sans se fissurer et qui est translucide, permet aux deux côtés de la lettre de se fondre lorsqu'on le tient à contre-jour.

La Reconnaissance

À propos du A' Design Award de Bronze

The Dark Side of the Moon Lettre D'amour est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. The Dark Side of the Moon Lettre D'amour est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. The Dark Side of the Moon Lettre D'amour satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

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Propriétés Uniques
The 'Dark Side of the Moon' is a love letter, telling a traditional Chinese love story, not only with words, but also by the way the package is opend, by the choice of printing technology, the used materials, the graphic design and illustrations. The storytelling begins as soon as the package is opened: the full moon on the front wanes, the dark side of the moon becomes visible. The story unfolds together with the unfolding of the letter, guiding the reader from chapter to chapter.
Dimensions & Emballage
Folded with package: 12 * 12cm
Unfolded letter : 36 * 36cm
Mots-Clés
graphic design, illustration, print, type design, package design
Technologie de Production
Since the letter is folded paper, the paper needs to have the property to be folded and unfolded multiple times without being torn apart, so we chose a kind of DuPond paper, which can't be ripped apart and which is translucent - two attributes love should have. Since The Love Story is about the sun and the moon, the letter also has a sun and a moon side. The translucency of the paper makes the two sides of the letter flow together when held up against the sun. If you hold the letter down while reading, you cannot see the other side.
Défi de Conception
Since we are a package design studio, we have an interest in paper. Commercial projects for clients often don't give the opportunity to use more special papers and printing techniques. When visiting package factories we can discover new papers and think about ways to use it and combine materials with stories through design. The used 'pocket purse' folding method, which originated in Japan, but became popular in 18th century Europe as love letter folding method, needed special paper. It made the layout and choice of paper challenging, but also became the designs key component. Since it's not only a creative design project, but also an actual product we sell it was difficult to find a producer who was fit for this folding method.
Recherche
As a Chinese/ German design studio, we are interested in finding a way of melting those different cultures in a project. The tradition of writing love letters is not that popular in China, throughout its history. So we came up with the idea of a Chinese love letter, using a folding method which also made its way from East to West. The story of Houyi and Chang'e is over 2000 years old and has many versions, but all have an outdated moral. So we rewrote the story first, before we started with the layout. From the beginning we planned this love letters to be a series, so we choose a package which has a CD feeling, since still many of people collect or collected CDs. Like love letters CDs seem from another century, but we think of them in loving nostalgia and hope to revive them in a new way with our design.
Inspiration
In this uncommissioned project we have combined our love for print design, story telling, illustration, graphic design and materials. The goal was to tell a story without the traditional form of a book. On the letter is space for a personal massage, this story can/should be shared with someone and reconnect those old stories with modern life again. The letter itself is folded like a 'pocket purse' - a Japanese Folding technique popular in Europe in the 18th century for writing love letters.
Durée du Projet
started August in Hangzhou and finished November in Hangzhou
Flux Opérationnel
Telling stories is as old as humanity. Love stories are especially popular. Giving presents to your loved ones is today more a requirement rather than an act of showing love. So we thought about a way to reintegrate old love stories with the rather old tradition of writing love letters. So this design is a present, where personal messages can be added while at the same time it is a documentation of an old love story using new design.
Crédits Images
Qianli Ma, Maria-Luisa Uth

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