Talking about book binding design

On my bookshelf, those books that are beautifully printed and beautifully designed on the cover are always in my safest and most eye-catching place, because I am particularly concerned about them, fearing that the book fell from the bookshelf and broke the spine or Fold off the book page, maybe this is related to the reason that I was studying art design. Indeed, I love the excellent design work. The beautiful book cover can also attract my eyeballs so that I can save money for myself. When I visit the bookstore, When I see printed and designed books that are very beautiful, whether it is useful or useless, I will pay for them. This may not be the case for intellectual control, but sometimes it is bound by money. Hehe. Simply say that I love books, and I like the binding of beautiful books. Let me discuss some of my own knowledge about the art of book binding. I hope that I can get recognition and advice from my colleagues and teachers.

Books are found in almost every household, but not everyone can understand the art of bookbinding. Is this just as if people lived in the house every day and not everyone understood the art of architecture? More practical things are often overlooked in their artistic value.

If we understand from the complete meaning of "bookbinding," it can be said that without books, there can be no books. This is even mentally inseparable from the body. Even if "bookbinding" is limited to the scope of fine arts, there is no Book bindings and books will also be simplistic and lack aesthetic. The appearance of white and white skin is not hard to imagine.

In the "bookbinding" there are many terms I don't want to explain one by one, such as the early texts that produced the previous knot notes, to ancient China's Jian, Ze, Wei, silk, membership, line, book brow, etc., believe in love Binding of books is also known to friends, some people misunderstood the "bookbinding art" to cover design of the cover design and page lining, at most including the illustration, this understanding is not comprehensive, but it also explains Covers, illustrations and title pages occupy prominent positions in book binding design.

Here I mainly talk about my own experience in the design of the cover. 1 The cover is the appearance of the book. It not only reflects the content and nature of the book, but also gives the reader a beautiful enjoyment, and also plays a role in protecting books. The cover design includes the names of books, authors, publishers, etc., as well as decorative images, colors, and composition. How to make the cover reflect the content, nature and genre of the book, how to make the cover play the role of inducing people's psychology and inspire people's thinking function is the most important part of the cover design. 2 The design of the cover design. The styling should have obvious features such as the reader's age and cultural level. If the images of children and young children should be concrete, true and accurate, the composition should be lively and lively, and in particular, knowledge and interest should be emphasized. For books for middle-aged to young people, the image can gradually shift from concrete to abstract, and symbolic techniques should be adopted. Composition can also be turned from a lively form to a serious, solemn form. 3 cover design color. Color is determined by the content of the book and the age and cultural level of the object. The vivid colors are mostly used for children's books; the calm and harmonious colors are suitable for the readings of the middle-aged and the elderly; the colors between the beauty and the gray should be used for young people's books. In addition, the contents of the book also have specific requirements for color. For example, books depicting the historical relics of revolutionary struggle should use red tones; books that expose the ugly phenomena of dark society should use white and black; the most suitable for expressing youthful vitality should be red and green. Different colors. For readers, due to differences in cultural quality, ethnicity, and occupation, they also have different preferences for the colors of books.

Book binding design needs to be like other interior design.

After investigation and study to check the proofreading design process. First to the owner of the knowledge - the author, or writing editor. Understand the substance of the original content. And through their own reading, understanding, and deepening of the content, nature, characteristics and readers of the objects that they want to frame, make correct judgments. If you are an editor, you need to develop a plan for the shape of the book. Solve the problems of large, small, hardcover, paperback, paper, and printing. For a designer. What is more concerned is how to use the given specifications, materials and printing process conditions. Through imagination. Mobilize your design skills. And to make its aesthetic pursuit of art echo the intrinsic nature of the book "cultural form". Not just stay in the political books to make a big deal. Literary books emphasize various forms, and children's books pursue innocence and liveliness. It also requires further in-depth understanding of the full harmony of manuscript comprehension scale and artistic expression scale. With rich performance techniques, rich performance content. Make the intuitive understanding of visual thinking (visual physiology) and visual thinking inference (visual psychology) highly unified. In order to meet people's knowledge, imagination and aesthetic requirements.
Book binding is both stereoscopic and planar, and this stereo is composed of many planes. Not only can the cover, back cover, and spine be seen on the outside, but also from the outside into the inside, with the visual flow of people, each page is flat. All these planes must be framed to give people a feeling of beauty. Some people use architectural art metaphor for book binding. Art of architecture is the art of space and art. However, through its layout, it can produce rhythm and create a sense of movement. This is also true of book binding, with the cover, ring lining, and cymbal pages approaching the text step by step.

This continuous appreciation process is like visiting Chinese gardens. Into the garden gate, gradually lead to deep, winding streets. Finally enter the main hall. In the main hall, this window is also illustrated. See the characters, activities, and environments of the heroes written in the text. This continuous process from outside to inside, according to different types, different genre style of book content. Produce different rhythm changes; literary books with a more intense emotional color should be larger and lively; and serious theoretical monographs, the design requires a distinct and rigorous sense of order.

Of course, in the end, for the design of book binding, each designer will have his own priorities and ideas, some will focus on the use of color, use abstract graphics and individual colors to express the content of the book, and some focus on the integrity of the styling. To tell the story of a book, this is just like our still life painting. The same group of still people with different life will have several different pictures, because the still life they see is different, and some focus on Light, some may focus on color, and others may always pay attention to modeling. A few digressions have been made. Everyone knows that books are the main means for the accumulation, dissemination, and continuation of human wisdom, and are signs of the progress of human civilization. Reading more will make us add knowledge, enlighten wisdom and soul; make people turn from ignorance to wisdom, from vulgar to noble; will help people establish a correct outlook on life, more actively into learning and work. So we should read more books, love books, and we should also understand some of the knowledge of book binding.

Reprinted from: Fine Art Network