Research On The Application Of Mud Dog Art Elements In Children’s Clothing From The Perspective Of Emotional Design

The mud dog is a kind of clay sculpture toy with strong folk characteristics in eastern Yudong,which is a valuable cultural heritage left by China’s ancient ancestors in the long history of the long river.Its external artistic features are highly expressive and interesting,and it is a record and expression of folklore aesthetics.The mud dog is also a special symbol worth reading,and the various shapes not only reflect the people’s beliefs and worship,but also contain beautiful emotional symbols of good fortune and prosperity,and it has continued as a carrier of spiritual support for the local people to this day.As people’s material living standards improve,more and more people are pursuing spiritual consumption in order to obtain emotional experience,and emotional design is set to become a burgeoning trend in the children’s clothing industry in the days ahead.This project takes the emotional meaning of the mud dog and the emotional design needs of children’s clothing as the basis,There is a certain compatibility between the emotional meaning of mud dog and the current parents’expectations for the healthy growth of children,the mud dog element is applied to the emotional design of children’s clothing,so as to better meet the emotional design needs of contemporary children’s clothing consumer groups.The aim of this paper is to explore the emotional expression of the Mud Dog in children’s clothing design.Based on Norman’s three-level theory of emotionality,through research to understand the aesthetic preferences and emotional needs of consumers for children’s clothing products,the methodology of emotional children’s clothing design with Mud Dog elements based on emotional design is proposed and explored in design practice.This paper is divided into three parts to develop:the first part is the basic research,through the literature survey,the relevant theoretical research of domestic and foreign scholars in emotional design and mud dogs was collected to understand the current research results of related topics.The second part is a theoretical study,in which fieldwork is conducted to investigate the geographical and human environment in which the mud dogs are located,to obtain first-hand research data,and to analyse the history and development of the mud dogs on the basis of existing literature,to explore in depth the beliefs,culture and emotional implications of the mud dogs,and then to reveal the spiritual values of the mud dogs.This is followed by a summary of the external artistic characteristics and aesthetics of the Mud Dogs,which paves the way for the following combination of Mud Dog elements and emotional children’s clothing design.The third part is a practical study,using questionnaires to find out that the emotional children’s clothing products have a good development prospect.Based on the three-level theory of emotional design,the paper explores the design principles and design methods of emotional children’s clothing with the element of muddy dog,and carries out design practice to transform the theoretical results into practical results.In conclusion,through the study of mud dogs and emotional design,and using modern children’s clothing as a carrier,this paper applies the ancient and childish mud dog elements to emotional children’s clothing design,which has certain practical significance and achieves the effective inheritance and promotion of traditional folk culture.At the same time,under the emotional needs of consumers for children’s wear,it can add local characteristics to modern children’s wear design and provide reference for contemporary children’s clothing design.