Manual Elements To Explore In The Book Design

Book is the ladder of human civilization progress, the mission of which, is to record the advanced experience of science and human culture and pass it on effectively. Since it appears, book has played an active role in aspects of satisfying human spiritual and material life need. From ancient times to the present, chinese book forms emerges continuously from the simple copies, the folding binding, whirlwind binding, butterfly binding, BaoBei binding, line binding, glue binding to mixed binding. The book materials change from oracle-bones to wood, from the silk to paper and to the present electronic book. The printing methods change from knife carving to writing, from the engraving to the type and to the present digital printing plate. The progress and development of technology makes book forms more and more abundant, book species more and more refined, and hand element, as one kind of graphic design forms, is particularly valuable.An excellent design work has the perfect combination of the function and art of book design. The so-called artistic which is contrary to functionality is not necessary. And the design, which only focus on the functionality but not has the artistic quality, also lost the soul of the book design art.Hand elements have simple, agile, natural art features, which are also shown by hand elements. The uniqueness of hand elements in the design of book is stated from the road of book design in three aspects such as the form of expression, decoration and designing aesthetics. The performance form of hand elements is described from the hand painting, cutting, folding, collage, rubbing, smoked burning, embroidery and so on. The decoration of hand elements is explained from hand fonts, graphics, materials and the color characteristics reflected by them. The unique design is relected by the image of hand elements.For designers, the performance of manual elements is their unique design language. It is not only the passive combination of the line, composition, color and strokes, not only belongs to the category of aesthetic and visual arts, but also it is a reproduction of the designer's creative thinking, a re-creation with the deeper design and a precipitate of the culture. The purpose of hand elements is a creative element, not the technique. The lively, simple, smart, fun, close-to-nature shows and the essence of its ideological and cultural connotation, which are revealed in the book design, is a form loved by the designer and readers.Hand elements as a form of regression and innovation of book design, must also be able to convey the information stated by the book author, and accepted by the readers. Hand elements in the book design have made some unprecedented attempts in the performance forms and material technology. So it makes readers not only feel more beautiful information, but also makes the communication ways of knowledge and information become more diversified. At the same time, hand element also makes it more meaning for designers to further study how to make the public aesthetic and the future forms of book design integrated perfectly.