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Explore 21 award-winning designs tagged book on Give Get Design.

Designer / Brand: Jesvin Yeo Design: Book Tag: Print

3D Embossed

The book uses 3D embossing to document and highlight the intricate details of the works meticulously crafted by traditional Singaporean artisans, from paper dragon boats and Indian jewelry to Peranakan beaded shoes. The color pages symbolize the rise and fall of traditional crafts, as the industry begins its developmental period (dull) to its golden age (yellow) and gradually fades (white). A pastel chalk is attached for readers to shade the pages and discover the lost arts of this intangible cultural heritage of Singapore, as only we humans can safeguard, support and bring it back.

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Designer / Brand: Qun Song Design: Book Tag: Print

Memories of the East Street in Xi'an

Memories of the East Street in Xi'an is a book that records the history and daily life of East Street, a main street of the city of Xi'an. The book is divided into three units and a separate leaflet, and includes hand-drawn illustrations, architectural mapping, trademark advertisements, documentary photographs and copies of newspapers. Interviews, old objects and collected images together form a civic archive of the street. Several printing methods are applied, among them embossing and silver printing, to recall the marks of past decades.

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Designer / Brand: Toby Ng Design Design: Book Tag: Print

Inside Muses

Inside Muses is a book created for K11 Musea, a retail and dining space in Hong Kong that promotes contemporary art and design. The publication features works from the four muses of the retail concept: Architecture, Furniture, Nature and Art. Storytelling, illustration and photography present each theme, and the unconventional format invites readers to explore new perspectives. Circle graphics on the cover represent the spheres of the four muses. The regular edition is hand sewn, while the hardcover edition is encased in a clear acrylic box similar to a display vitrine.

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Designer / Brand: Yitong Isabelle Tan Design: Book Tag: Print

Voice Print

Voice Print is a book about speech disfluencies, the interruptions and irregularities that occur when people speak. The book uses typographic scores, visual patterns that map speech over time, to show that fluency exists on a spectrum rather than as a simple division into two states. The scores are printed on translucent paper with strong show-through. Essays set in white on black, on glossy and opaque paper, give context and guide the reader. The book measures 9 by 12 inches, the same size as sheet music.

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Designer / Brand: ALICE XI ZONG Design: Book Tag: Print

ZhuZi Art

A series of book editions for the collected works of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting is published by Nanjing Zhuzi Art Museum. With its long history and elegant technique, the traditional Chinese paintings and calligraphy are treasured for their highly artistic and practical appeal. When designing the collection, abstract shapes, colors, and lines were used to create a consistent sensuality and highlight the blank space in the sketch. The effortless coincides with artists in traditional painting and calligraphy styles.

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Designer / Brand: Zhiyou Tian Design: Book Tag: Print

Seven Days and Nights Love Is Daylight

Seven Days and Nights Love is Daylight is an illustrated novel about international business and romance. The book uses seven kinds of paper, one for each of the seven days described in the story, so touch, light and shade change as the pages turn. The pages are cut with a 360 degree gradation, and quick forward turning shows daylight rising while turning back shows moonlight falling. The cover is washed kraft paper with orange and silver printing, gold and silver stamping and pressed relief. A fluorescent acrylic box with laser engraved text matches the fluorescent colors inside.

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Designer / Brand: Lisa Winstanley Design: Book Tag: Print

The Tridea Project

This book, The Tridea Project: Culturally Diverse Co-Creation, documents the brand's conception and its subsequent evolution. The content consists of three chapters, first an overview of the project and its creator. Second a detailed brand guidelines and thirdly a visual essay, discussing the brand values of inclusion and diversity, both of which have been pivotal factors to this 4 year research project. The book design has been crafted with materiality in mind and each aspect has been considered and contemplated to metaphorically represent the project values.

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Designer / Brand: Chen Nan Design: Book Tag: Print

History of Chinese Character Design

History of Chinese Character Design is a book that explains the history of Chinese character design from the viewpoint of design studies. The seven Chinese characters in the title are set in seven fonts that show an evolutionary relationship. Black and white illustrations open each chapter, combining symbols drawn from the text and design examples of that chapter. Many information visualization diagrams support the content. A black hardcover book slides into a white and gold hard box in a drawer structure.

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Designer / Brand: Na An Design: Book Tag: Print

Memories of Mukden

These are books on the city's history and regional culture. The books consists of eight volumes, which respectively introduce eight places of interest in Mukden. Mukden is the birthplace of Qing culture and an important Chinese cultural heritage. Books are bound by folding, materials are metal, rice paper, brocade and so on. The shape of the book is an octagonal palace lantern, which expresses the meaning that the palace lantern carries the memory of the old times and lights illuminate the history and culture. The content of the book uses digital illustration to depict the scene.

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Designer / Brand: Lu Zhao Design: Book Tag: Print

Plastic

Plastic is a handmade book made from waste plastic instead of paper. Discarded plastic bags and other used plastics are collected and cut by hand into pages. The text and the stickers imitate children's brushstrokes, giving the pages a simple and innocent character. Ordinary glue does not bond plastic, so the pages are fixed with hot-melt plastic. The book measures 225 mm in width, 325 mm in depth and 10 mm in height. The intent is to reuse waste material and to raise awareness of plastic pollution.

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Designer / Brand: Autobahn Design: Book Tag: Print

A Is Van Os

A is van Os is a book about the history of the Latin alphabet. The book shows the development of each letter across four periods in history. The changes are drawn with clear lines and bright colours, so each transformation is easy to follow. All original letterforms were hand carved in stone and photographed, as a reference to the first letters cut in rock. The hard cover carries a stone image finished with a gravel coating, which makes the surface tactile. The book measures 240 by 240 millimetres.

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Designer / Brand: Hsiao-Wen Hu Design: Book Tag: Print

Craft as Time Capsule

This project is the final documentation of Hsiao-Wen's thesis research on craft making as a preservation methodology in the current digital age. The book consists of three parts, examining the transition between the physical and virtual, material and data, user engagement and experience from the perspective of craft making and preservation. As the world transitioned from physical activities to virtual interactions, new needs and forms of engagement with our surroundings were prompted. Such change not only exhibits via the object and the technology, but also the whole culture at large.

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