An Research Of The Chinese Door’s Emblazonment And Modern Commercial Shop Front Design

In history of Chinese national culture art, the art of traditional Chinese door decoration hasbeen found that its elaborately using of materials, various ways of decoration, and elegantdecoration arts. Meanwhile, it gathered different architectures, religions, habits and customstogether from different places and ethnics in China. The Chinese traditional door decoration arthas a very high aesthetic value, it is showed its superb excellence from its diversities of doorknockers, bright and exaggerative Door-gods, and its tiny decorative cylinders. This demonstratesthat Chinese people want to inherit the traditional culture, as well as understanding and carryforward of Chinese culture.Since China open her gate to the global, western culture combined with its distinctive designshas continuously coming into Chinese market, and increasingly occupied the design market share.The Chinese designers wanted to suit the cultural mixture, so they started to copy those westerndesigns massively. This resulted the design of Chinese door decoration are homogeneous stylesand weaken the Chinese traditional culture be part of the Chinese door decoration. Actually, theideal of design from Chinese culture and customs is gathered thousands of years of Chinesewisdoms. According to the importance of Chinese culture, how to inherit the Chinese traditionsbecomes a huge question in commercial door decoration industry.With the development of the societies, the content and meaning of decoration art changestime by time. But the only thing does not change is the ideal and lifestyle which individualsseeking for. In my personal of view, this is the basic concept of commercial door front design.This essay will mainly discuss how modern commercial door front design could effected byChinese traditional door decoration art, the problems existed in domestic commercial door frontdesign, and how to use the art of Chinese traditional door decoration to create better work thatmatches the modern aesthetic needs.