Of The Book Shape Design

Conformation, by word meaning, consists of form and spirit. Only with the perfect combination of form beauty and spirit beauty, art charm can be produced. The world enjoys a long history on design and production of book conformation. In contempory era, book conformation undergoes the transformation from single-way knowledge passing by plane structure to multi-way knowledge passing by insulin chemical structure, which is the trend of conformation transformation. The making of book conformation is a systematic work with effort of bookbinders as well as writers, publishers, editors, designers. All of them face a series of new tasks on form and spirit, macroscope and microscope, word transfer and picture transfer, etc. Nowadays, book design has entered a new era of multi-dimension and multi-direction, combined with digital technology, holding unique concept of studies on book conformation, centered by multi-structurism, with emphasis on reading interaction, which enlargesthe room of book conformation design and forms new atmosphere and multi-transmission structure. The above measures are being taken to guide book design developing in all-dimensions. "Spirit container" with long life and possession value will be produced under the principle of rationality.