Small Space Versus Macro-energy

Spine is an important part of a book, and is always called "Eye of a book", overall design of book is highly emphasized now days, and the relationship between spine and a whole book is part versus entirety, and hence every aspect of the organic whole of a book design will be impacted by spine. The function of spine is to not only link the front and back cover, but also consolidate front cover, back cover and inside pages to a complete book. From this point of view, visual effects of the book will be impacted by designing of spine. The most famous Chinese book designer Jingren Lv said:"Spine acts as the leading role in the representation of space for a book". Despite of it’s small dimension, there’s huge energy been contained in spine, which could be reflected on and designed from various perspective. Please enjoy the design of book and explore diverse possibilities of spine design with the author in this article.