Love Letters Kalender oleh Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou

Karya Love Letters Kalender oleh Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou adalah pemenang yang sangat dihormati dari 2026 A' Design Award Besi yang sangat bergengsi dalam Kategori Kompetisi Desain Sosial.

BesiSosial· 2026

Love Letters Kalender

oleh Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou

Klien: Yezi Designs

Pemenang A' Design Award Besi dalam Kategori Sosial

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Verifikasi Status Penghargaan untuk #180625

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Warna

Desain

Tentang Love Letters Kalender

Love Letters adalah kalender yang dirancang untuk menghubungkan kehidupan sehari-hari dengan kesadaran akan keanekaragaman hayati. Masing-masing dari dua belas kartunya memuat sepucuk surat dari satu spesies yang terancam punah, mengajak perenungan, ikrar pribadi, serta penandaan tanggal-tanggal penting. Setiap kartu dapat dilipat menjadi struktur yang berdiri sendiri tanpa penjilidan, dan kemudian dapat dimasukkan ke dalam amplop kertasnya untuk dikirim atau diarsipkan. Set ini dicetak dengan teknik offset pada kertas uncoated bersertifikat FSC dan ditempatkan dalam kotak kertas bergaya laci yang dapat digunakan kembali sebagai kenang-kenangan atau alat peraga pembelajaran.

Pengakuan

Tentang A' Design Award Besi

Love Letters Kalender adalah pemenang A' Design Award Besi, pengakuan yang bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain yang baik yang memenuhi persyaratan profesional dan industri yang diharapkan dari kreasi yang dirancang dengan baik. Pemenang Besi menunjukkan keterampilan yang besar, spesialisasi yang tinggi, pemahaman ahli, dan kapasitas kreatif para penciptanya. Love Letters Kalender diharapkan menjadi kreasi yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi, dan dicintai yang praktis dan inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Besi ini mengintegrasikan praktik terbaik industri dan memiliki karakteristik teknis yang kompeten yang terkait dengan pengetahuan teknis dan bakat. Love Letters Kalender dihormati karena ketelitiannya dan dirancang untuk memberikan peningkatan kualitas hidup yang membantu menjadikan dunia tempat yang lebih baik.

Di Balik Desain

Kit Pers

Kredit, anggota tim, dan detail teknis yang disediakan oleh desainer.

Keunikan: 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.
Dimensi & Kemasan: 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.
Tag: Emotional calendar, Eco conscious design, Endangered animals, Interactive daily ritual, Foldable cards, User engagement, Mailable cards, Educational gift, Modular structure
Teknologi Produksi: 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.
Tantangan Desain: 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.
Riset: 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.
Inspirasi: 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.
Durasi Proyek: 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.
Alur Operasi: 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.
Paten: Copyrights belong to Yefan Liu and Zilan Zhou, 2026
Anggota Tim: Yefan Liu
Zilan Zhou
Jiayi Chen
Kangwen Shi
Kredit Gambar: #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.