Blank Design Is The Spirit Of The Books

Now we can see many flashy books on the market, which holism of book bindingis neglected by people, and book designers go to a misunderstanding in the so-calledaesthetic pursuit. The designer’s goal may be the icing on the cake to books, but becamesuperfluous. The flat plate of books is full used, but ignored the book itself, thus peoplein dense view and the appropriate use of blank design can make up the defects of vision.The blank is a kind of silent language which plays a crucial role in the bookbinding design. Blank design is a special aesthetic psychology, it does not mean no,many times it is more imaginative and creative than luxuriant picture, and it passes therich imagination of reader, so that the reader can supplement their own thoughts inblank design conception. In Chinese traditional poetry, calligraphy, painting, drama andlandscape architecture, blank design has been widely used. Blank design in bookbinding design is the inevitable art language and combination in layout with variedforms. Rational use of blank design, can keep the overall sense of the layout andcoordinate readers’ visual rule, thereby enabling the layout has its unique charm andbeauty. Proper blank, which can provide a lot of imagination to the people, help tostrengthen the feeling of readers, obtain visual rest, and embodies the value of "less ismore" in design.This article attempts to discuss the position, role and charm of blank design inbook binding design from the future development trend of blank design in book bindingdesign in China, through the study of performance, application and special artisticappeal of blank design in book binding design to widen the vision field of moderndesigners who can contact more thinking design and can design his works to a betteraesthetic realm, thus let the blank design to be an indispensable form of creativeexpression in book binding design.