Design and traditional culture

Design and traditional culture


Design is an organic part of social culture. It is developed and completed under the participation and constraints of culture, reflecting the style of the culture at that time. Different cultures have different spiritual and cultural psychological structures, reflecting different values ​​and aesthetic concepts. They play an important role in the design process of handicrafts, industrial products, construction, clothing, and urban construction. The design of any era is closely linked with its then culture. The design process needs to re-compose the objects, and it is even possible to use the combined objects in all aspects. Art design is borrowed through culture, which is borrowed through cultural processing. The design form comes from culture, and people process all impressions about existence according to rich experience. The history of design is the history of design.

The influence of traditional culture on design mainly has the following manifestations: tradition influences design principles, affects the way of thinking of designers and audiences, influences the formal system of design, and influences the evaluation criteria of design. Design is not affected by traditional culture from time to time. Although some modern designers, especially those with avant-garde awareness, have always claimed that they want to abandon any tradition and think that their works are “unconventional”, this is not the case in practice. Design has never been arbitrarily pure personal behavior. From the explicit traditions of media, language, performance techniques, etc., to the hidden traditions of cultural awareness, thinking, aesthetics, and other aspects of design recognition, each designer is affected. Neither modern artists nor designers can completely separate themselves from the custom.

With the rapid development of computers, we have entered the informationized society from the age of industrialization. For designers, design is no longer the result of manual craftsmanship and industrial production. Instead, it is created through the use of computers as media, and through the Internet to the world. Extend all over. Especially people-oriented nowadays, designers must consider the excellent texture and warmth of traditional objects from the aspect of utility closely related to human beings. Designs that give convenience and benefits require the effective use of traditional culture.

Consciously integrating traditional culture into modern design concepts is a problem that designers should pay attention to. Appreciating articles with "elegant" and "elegant" styles, the Chinese people are actually influenced by the traditional Lao Zhuang aesthetic thoughts "quiet and calm." Then when designers deal with this kind of style design, they will surely follow Lao Zhuang's “invisible elephant” and “Da Yin Xi Sheng”. Otherwise, it is impossible for the audience to feel the corresponding aesthetic imagery. The corresponding law of the creation of "beauty" and "beauty" is extracted from the traditional culture of China for thousands of years. Therefore, understanding Chinese traditional culture and understanding the Chinese aesthetic tradition are quite necessary for designers. The overall consciousness, ecological consciousness, humanistic orientation, refined outlook, pluralism tendency and so on in Chinese classical aesthetics all have a good inspiration for modern design.