The Influence Of Digital Technology On Modern Book Design In China

The emergence of digital technology has infused new vigor into traditional ways of design and has broken up the boundary of traditional design category for book design, which enables book design to be a kind of carrier combining diverse subjects freely. The digital technology enriches the extension of artistic book design and also makes it more multiplicate and individual.The digital technology has released the people working on book design from their complicated manual drawings. They could arrange and combine pictures, words and colors by computer, which has greatly shortened the design time spent before by hand. As a result, they could concentrate on unearthing their own imagination and creativity deeply. However, some designers depend on computer to a fault so that their freedom of creativity is astricted. Therefore, it is common to see that although some designers exert a lot of skills on their works, the practical meanings they want to express are quite weak.As the development of society and the advancement of art design, matured people have already been dissatisfied with simple chart instructions and visual stimulating colors for book design. What they request the book design to be are the harmony and unification of form and content, perfect combination of skills and art. They hope the book design could convey the internal cultural meanings of the book, in order that the works of book design could be in accord with not only the readers' aesthetic psychology but also reading psychology. The diverse ways of book design and the abundance of material languages will absolutely leave deep influence on the development of future book design, as well as the precision of printing technology and continuous development of hardware and software of computer.