DESIGN NAME: Winter Solstice
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Gift Box
INSPIRATION: - 99 Cold Relieving Map [Relationship with people]
Ancient people in the bleak and long winter, often have nothing to do at home, so in order to endure the long winter, to add more daily fun to life, ancient scholars invented the "count nine" method to cheer up, waiting for the coming spring.
- The number "nine" literally means "long term" in Chinese
The Winter solstice, like the New Year, is the real starting point of the 24 solar terms.
A sense of ritual, a new beginning
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Process: inlaying, carving and filling, broken lines, bronzing, handwriting calligraphy,
Design function level: referring to the popular furniture varieties of the Qing Dynasty "Duobao Pavilion", dedicated to furnishings antiques.
It has the dual function of practical collection and aesthetic display.
9 different flavors: each flavor can correspond to a scene or meaning of company.
The gift box can be used as daily household furnishings, environmental protection and sustainable.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: 1) The induction sequence of nine bottles of fruitwine
According to "the weeping willows in front of the court cherish the spring breeze", every word is 9 pens
2) Opening and closing of the gift box
Pure wooden box double open cabinet box
3) Every word on the screen has nine strokes
From the beginning of the winter solstice, fill a stroke every day in accordance with the order of strokes, and fill a word every 19. Until the spring returns to the earth after 99, a picture of 99 to eliminate cold is complete.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Time: 2022
Location: Shanghai, Shanghai,China
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Packaging Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The packaging of the gift box is mainly made of wood and metal accessories.
Drawing lessons from the traditional Chinese beam structure, the integrated metal material is used to consolidate the whole structure of the wooden gift box.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Specification Size: Length 355mm, width 160mm, height 495mm
TAGS: (Design keywords, key phrases) 1) "Duobao pavilion" Gift Box (packaging) 2) Chinese traditional winter entertainment (Function) 3) ESG [Enviroment/Social/Governance]
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: -
CHALLENGE: Historical perspective
1. The modern visual presentation of the ancient Chinese traditional "Solar term timing". “
Regain people's love for traditional festivals (calligraphy strokes/" Writing one stroke one day ") . “庭前垂柳珍待春风”on the cover of the box is a sentence from Chinese traditional poem celebrating the expectation of spring. Every day write one stroke of the sentence, spring comes when finish writing. The new expression of traditional festivals is more in line with the current aesthetic and experience.
2. The continuation and innovation of traditional ideas by creative communication, Trade-offs between Old and New ideas.
The evolution of "Duobao Pavilion", a popular furniture variety in the Qing Dynasty, combined with the inheritance of Chinese solar terms on the basis of display. Chinese calligraphy is rich in the charm of enhancing national identity, and is developing into a world art.
Social perspective
1. Establish emotional bonding with users.
The flavors of different wines and the order of the solar terms bring different imagination and feelings to the tasters
2. The ideas and values that the box conveys
Through design, we can influence people's perception of environmental protection and enhance the protection and inheritance of excellent traditional culture.
ADDED DATE: 2023-05-31 07:19:19
TEAM MEMBERS (4) : Binfeng Zhang, Wei Lin, Shan Shan and Yong Zhang
IMAGE CREDITS: Infeng Zhang, Shan Shan, Wei Lin and Yong Zhang, 2023.
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