Global Spread of Sun Tzu's Art of War
Award: Wood Pencil
Wood Pencil / Book Design / Art & Design / 2024
The cover design is inspired by the bamboo slips unearthed from the Yinqueshan Han Tomb. It draws on the style of bamboo slips, die-cut gray boards into strips, and transforms them with new materials and techniques. On the basis of modern style Keep the rustic atmosphere. This special form of binding makes the cover produce the effect of "combining rigidity and softness".
What did the judges have to say?
Spellbound by the tactility of the cover. I haven't seen anything like that before, yet when reading the bamboo slips explanation it seems so simple and obvious.
Miglė Rudaitytė, Founder of independent creative practice BOY, BOY
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