Silver Print and Published Media Design · 2022
Seven Days and Nights Love is Daylight Book
by Zhiyou Tian
- A' Design Award 2022 Silver Winner in Print and Published Media Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Artron Design Center
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 45,279
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About Seven Days and Nights Love is Daylight Book
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.
Seven Days and Nights Love is Daylight Book by Zhiyou Tian emerges from a distinguished tradition of artist's books and limited edition publishing that treats the codex as a complete aesthetic experience rather than mere textual vessel. The work demonstrates exceptional sensitivity to the phenomenology of the book object, where material selection, structural housing, and chromatic identity coalesce into unified artistic statement. Tian's employment of fluorescent acrylic for the protective enclosures represents a bold departure from conventional archival housing, transforming utilitarian slipcase into luminous sculptural presence that commands attention while simultaneously revealing its precious contents through translucent walls. The ivory cloth-bound volume with its intricate blind-embossed surface suggests cartographic or cosmological imagery, inviting tactile engagement while maintaining visual subtlety that rewards sustained examination. The deliberate pairing of this restrained, textural treatment with the vibrant fluorescent companion volume creates a dialogue between contemplative quietude and chromatic exuberance, perhaps embodying the titular meditation on love's dual nature across the temporal span of seven days and nights. The technical execution demonstrates mastery of contemporary book arts production: precise registration of embossing, immaculate paper selection evident in the pristine page blocks, and the exacting tolerances required for the fitted acrylic cases. This work invites consideration of how physical books might transcend their documentary function to become objects of meditation, cherished not merely for textual content but for the complete sensory experience of their material presence.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- A graphic novel of international business and romance, a new art classic with a gorgeous style and dense philosophical thoughts. The whole work of vivid vitality and design of the aesthetic interlocking, the plot tumbles story into the picture, gorgeous color relaxation, light and shadow light delicate and dynamic, reading more visual impact and sensory temperature.
The designer carefully refines the core characters, scenes, dramatic conflicts, images, etc. Each illustration is designed with rhythm from still frame to microscopic color. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Book box: modern fluorescent acrylic book box with text laser engraving technique.
Cover: wear-resistant soft feeling washed kraft paper, orange and silver two-color printing, matching gold & silver stamping transparent, pressed concave.
Specifications: 185*260*26mm international format - Tags
- Novel, Philosophic, Modern, Eastern, Layouts, Book
- Production Technology
- The fluorescent acrylic book box echoes matches well with the fluorescent colors inside the book. Seven kinds of paper are used in the book, corresponding to the scene of the seven days, echoing the title of the book. The change of paper brings the subtle difference of touch and light and shade, making the reading rhythm well-arranged. The pages of 360 - degree graduation design, the circumference of
the once, let the book form page and on the right side and up and down, left a beautiful arc book traces. - Design Challenge
- Different thickness of the set of post to ensure a high degree of unity of the book margins, taking into account the different characteristics of the paper double-sided subtle changes.
Each detail leading to the whole book, interlocking hand-binding details, is the book manual obstacles and challenges. - Project Duration
- The project was designed and producted from March 2021 to October 2021, Beijing, China.
- Operation Flow
- Special design of 360 degree book pages, when the pages quickly turned forward scene of daylight rising can be seen. By turning back, the fall of moonlight is showed.
- Research
- Seven groups of punctuation and fine line digital code, as well as light and shade changes within the text of the single and double column mixed way, with a single line tracing treatment to the key text and dialogue of the passage.
Seven kinds of paper are used in the book, corresponding to the scene of the seven days. Tactile distinctive light and shadow light and dark rhythm subtle, making the book a rich and varied reading perception.
At the end of the book, with strict text labeling and graphic index information, with extremely meticulous notes and minimalist design. - Inspiration
- This Oriental Pride and Prejudice, the initial inspiration for the design comes from the artistic tone of Mucha’s work about young girls and candy.
The lead designer, Zhiyou Tian, through the layers of analysis of the content philosophy, the mystery and sacredness of love that contains time and time, through the series of numbers, the rainbow of the sun, moon and stars, light to form a unique design logic and rhinoceros style. - Image Credits
- Image No. 1~5: Zhiyou Tian
Video Credits: Zhiyou Tian - Patents
- Copyrighted documents and numbers (mailand China):
Text copyright: Figure word: 2019-A-00796891
Compilation copyright: 2020-L-01111655/ 2021-L-00160520
Artwork copyright: 2021-F-00212006/2007/2008/2009