A Study Of Kan Tai-keung Design Thought And Style

Kan tai-Keung is a famous graphic designers, his design concise form, connotation is abundant and profound.He emphasis on the mining native culture resources and the application of Chinese traditional culture characteristics of the calligraphy art, ink and pattern, folk elements. Such as its main creation element, and fusion modern western design concept to create with the national characteristics of graphic design work. This novel forms and the unique creative design is full of spiritual and aesthetic feeling. The local elements in modern graphic design of inheritance and innovation in his works, together with his expression style,are not only a part of China classic design but also belongs to the world of new visual language.This paper systematically analyzed the Kan tai-Keung’s classic graphic design work, and his design style for a more in-depth research and analysis, the main purpose is to explore Kan tai-Keung’s unique design technique,design thought and connotation which contained in his works, so as to enrich and develop our plane design theory and guide the practice. Around this one theme, paper contains the following contents:The first part is the introduction which mainly expounds the research background, research contents, and the research purpose, research significance. The second part expounds the Kan tai-Keung graphic design thought process and the formation reasons by analysis his education background and family environment, working experience. The third part reflects Kan tai-Keung design thought by expound the eastern thought and traditional culture; That Chinese and western blends; the important factor in design concept-the creative detail contained in his works. The fourth part summarizes his main design symbols, expression, design idea and design method by detailed introduce Kan tai-Keung design during different periods of graphic design work from different levels, different angles. The last part analyzed the Kan tai-Keung design ideas and style of the artistic characteristics and achievements by expound the place of the social background. This is very important on our modern graphic design and the development of the contemporary art.