Chinese book Old Trades of Jiangsu: A Glimps has won the 2019 "Best Book Design from all over the World" competition held in Leipzig, Germany. [Photo/eastday.com]

Instead of using traditional printing paper to make a book, a Chinese publishing company used food wrapping paper and as a result, recently won the 2019 "Best Book Design from all over the World" competition held in Leipzig, Germany.

Old Trades of Jiangsu: A Glimpse, published by Jiangsu Phoenix Education Publishing Co., Ltd, was given the honorary appreciation award by Stiftung Buchkunst, which has been responsible for overseeing the annual book design competition since 1991.

Designers used cheap paper that old shops used to wrap refreshments for the book, with black-and-white pictures printed on the paper with deckle edges.