Love Letters Calendario de Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou

O deseño Love Letters Calendario de Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou é un estimado gañador do moi prestixioso 2026 A' Design Award de Ferro na Categoría de Competición Deseño Social.

FerroSocial· 2026

Love Letters Calendario

de Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou

Cliente: Yezi Designs

Gañador do A' Design Award de Ferro na Categoría Social

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O Deseño

Sobre Love Letters Calendario

Love Letters é un calendario deseñado para conectar a vida cotiá coa concienciación sobre a biodiversidade. Cada unha das doce tarxetas leva unha carta dunha especie en perigo de extinción, convidando á reflexión, aos compromisos persoais e á marcaxe de datas importantes. Cada tarxeta dóbrase nunha estrutura autoportante sen encadernación, e pode colocarse despois no seu sobre de papel para o envío postal ou o arquivo. O conxunto está impreso en offset sobre papel non estucado con certificación FSC e gárdase nunha caixa de papel tipo caixón que pode reutilizarse como obxecto de recordo ou como material didáctico.

O Recoñecemento

Sobre o A' Design Award de Ferro

Love Letters Calendario gañou o A' Design Award de Ferro, un recoñecemento prestixioso outorgado a bos deseños que cumpren os requisitos profesionais e industriais esperados de creacións ben deseñadas. Os gañadores Ferro demostran a gran habilidade, a alta especialización, a comprensión experta e a capacidade creativa dos seus creadores. Espérase que Love Letters Calendario sexa unha creación moi apreciada, admirada e querida que é práctica e innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Ferro integra as mellores prácticas do sector e ten características técnicas competentes ligadas ao saber facer e ao talento. Love Letters Calendario é respectado pola súa minuciosidade e está deseñado para proporcionar melloras na calidade de vida que axudan a facer do mundo un lugar mellor.

Detrás do deseño

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Créditos, membros do equipo e detalles técnicos proporcionados polo deseñador.

Propiedades Únicas: This project reimagines the calendar as a tool for emotional storytelling and environmental action. Each month features a letter from an endangered species, inviting reflection, personal pledges, and meaningful dates. The foldable card becomes both calendar and time capsule, using ritual, empathy, and biodegradable materials to turn awareness into active care, a purpose led experience connecting biodiversity loss to daily life.
Dimensións e Embalaxe: The finished product measures 110 mm × 230 mm × 40 mm. The calendar set includes 12 illustrated calendar cards, 12 paper envelopes, and a calendar storage box. The cards are designed to be folded into a self standing three dimensional structure without additional binding. After use, each card can be placed into its corresponding envelope for mailing or archiving. The complete set is housed in a paper based calendar box suitable for storage and distribution.
Etiquetas: Emotional calendar, Eco conscious design, Endangered animals, Interactive daily ritual, Foldable cards, User engagement, Mailable cards, Educational gift, Modular structure
Tecnoloxía de Produción: The calendar is produced using FSC certified uncoated paper with high opacity to enhance durability and color accuracy. Offset printing is applied for production, combined with spot color control to ensure consistent tones across animal illustrations in different batches. Multiple rounds of prototyping and user testing were conducted to optimize the calendar’s size, thickness, and interaction details for daily use.
Reto de Deseño: The main challenge was integrating a daily use object with abstract concepts to encourage genuine user engagement. This required designing a full interaction flow, from using the calendar, writing messages, to mailing actions, and adding playful, foldable features to the calendar cards. Constraints included production feasibility, material limits, and balancing usability with emotional and eco conscious objectives.
Investigación: Type of research: iterative design and user centered study. Objectives: to create an engaging, emotionally meaningful calendar. Methodology: multiple prototyping rounds and user testing. Tools: physical prototypes and feedback sessions. Participants: 15 users evaluated interaction and usability. Results: optimized foldable structure, size, and display clarity. Insights: users valued emotional engagement and eco consciousness. Impact: informs sustainable, interactive product design for daily life.
Inspiración: This project makes biodiversity loss personal and actionable by breaking it into monthly rituals, reflection, pledges, date marking, and small acts of care. Drawer style box and red envelopes create a sense of reveal, while foldable calendar cards combine animal storytelling with practical use. Guided prompts turn awareness into everyday action, embedding ecological urgency into time based rituals.
Duración do Proxecto: The project started in March 2025 in Georgia and Michigan, USA, and completed prototype testing and design refinements by September 2025. Since then, it has been in ongoing serial production, ensuring quality, consistency, and readiness for distribution.
Fluxo de Operacións: Most calendars function as tools, this one is designed as a relationship. The project bridges personal ritual and planetary care through a system that encourages reflection, action, and emotional continuity. Love Letters transforms a calendar into a twelve month exchange between users and endangered animals, packaging empathy and awareness through monthly interaction. The drawer style outer box symbolizes preservation and is designed for second life use as a keepsake or educational object.
Patentes: Copyrights belong to Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou, 2026
Membros do Equipo: Yefan Liu
Zilan Zhou
Jiayi Chen
Kangwen Shi
Créditos das Imaxes: #Main Image: Photographer Yefan Liu, A Calendar of Love Letters, 2025.
#Image 1: Photographer Yefan Liu, A Calendar of Love Letters, 2025.
#Image 2: Photographer Yefan Liu, A Calendar of Love Letters, 2025.
#Image 3: Photographer Yefan Liu, A Calendar of Love Letters, 2025.
#Image 4: Photographer Yefan Liu, A Calendar of Love Letters, 2025.