Innovative Design Of Analysis And Comparison

As a kind of special products, zodiac commemorative coins are not only the legal currencyin China, but also the collections with a high content of art, science and technology, as well asculture. It represents the features of a time, the capabilities of its art design and the developmentlevel of its technology. With the economic development and the improvement of people’s livingstandard, the issuance and collection of the zodiac commemorative coins are beloved by moreand more people. People are paying more attention to its value of investing and collecting, at thesame time, they are also concerned that whether its design is exquisite. This papercomprehensively analyzes the present development of the commemorative coins, proposes howto improve the design of zodiac commemorative coins, after having a conceptual understandingon the cultural background, the origin and the development of lunar zodiac commemorative coins,clarifies its design features, does a series of quantitative analysis on its color, shape, text and soon for its related data of the changes, and at last summarizes in terms of chart form.While analyzing and comparing, the difference between China and other countries in EastAsia, Europe and America is comprehensively explained. Through the contrast between itsadvantages and disadvantages, the points should be studied from others are summed up. Thestrengths should be adopted to make some changes on the Chinese lunar zodiac commemorativecoins.It is summarized that under the influence of the international environment, how the changesof zodiac commemorative coins have occurred in terms of their shapes, materials and technical.From this, the personal opinions on the current design innovation of Chinese zodiaccommemorative coins have been presented, which are the design innovation from the aspect ofdesign ideas, the aspect of design layouts, and the aspect of processing technology. Above, thecartoons should be used for expressing thoughts; the form of Chinese zodiac should besymbolized; the traditional round coins should be broken through; color visual languages shouldbe adopted; the high relief should be employed in processing technology; the way of stonehand-carved should be migrated to the coin designs; what’s more, the computer technology andthe hand-carved technology should be combined together.