Inheritance And Innovtion Of Traditional Thread Bound Book Design

Book greatly contributes human civilization with the long history in China. Thread-bounded book is the final bounded version when Chinese traditional book developed to paper-paged book. Thread-bounded book is classical in Chinese traditional culture. This essay will study and discuss the background,technological process, materials, printing and formatting of thread-bounded book. he development of printing technology, the increase of ways of bounded, the appearance of new materials, and the diverse of formatting all bring more diversity of thread-bounded book types.This essay starts the discussion from the history of thread-bounded book and tries to summarize the hidden reason of thread-bounded book typing changes. With the foundation of previous experience,we will discuss flexibility and creativity of thread-bounded book new types.We will find the coherence point between thread-bounded books type and modern books design by researching all factors forming types of thread-bounded books. Secondly, as the development of science and technology, electronic books has brought massive challenges to the traditional paper medium. This essay will analyze the current status of books under digital age and discuss the new design of thread-bounded book on going beyond only using paper as the medium and also discuss the diversity and developing tendency of thread-bounded book.The current book market are facing the high level of aesthetics in different sensations and explosive Internet information. In addition, reading has been upgraded to digital reading, and more and more choices of producers and consumers with high competition. Due to high level of aesthetics in different sensations, explosive Internet information, upgraded digital reading habit and high competition of increasing producers and consumers, the new essential projects to book manufactures is to how to maintain and develop new values of book. In recent years, in order to make the book more unique, more and more book designers put more attentions on the books’ binding and layout, contents, designing and artistic typography, so book designing has achieved higher artistic value.Because market varies to different targets when facing different groups and book designing has to follow consumer’s preference, there are various of different designs for books. This essay is to discuss the definition and content of book designing, and further explore how to combine book designing with zeitgeist. Thread-bounded book exists till now by carrying the historical meanings and demonstrates the uniqueness of Chinese traditional books. We hope we could provide some theoretical basis and practical experience. Carrying Chinese book cultures is the best heritage of traditional book type design. Chinese booking design will be more cultural and contemporary.