Design and illustration of the book « Flowers Grow on Paper »

Abstract

Shandong Jiaozhou paper cutting is one of the traditional Chinese paper cutting art forms, and it is also an ancient folk art in Shandong Province. It has a long history, a wide range of themes and a unique cultural connotation. It is famous for its unique paper-cutting skills, beautiful shape and rich meaning, and has been rated as a provincial intangible cultural heritage. Due to the special geographical location of jiaozhou, while bring economic prosperity and the in-depth communication, so jiaozhou paper-cut, formed its own both have delicate work show, decoration, near to the realistic southern charm, and retain the thick plain, concise and lively, advocate the northern tone of unique performance method. Jiaozhou was also awarded the title of "Hometown of Chinese Paper-cut" by the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art at the second China Yangko Festival. Paper-cut art as one of the important intangible cultural heritage in China, has become a unique art form existence and development, under the new situation of rapid economic development in our country, especially in our country cultural industry more and more attention under the historical conditions, paper-cut art as an intangible cultural heritage, presents a good development momentum, has achieved important results, paper-cut culture innovation and application and paper-cut creative products are more and more higher attention. Based on the Shandong Jiaozhou paper-cutting art culture, combine the excellent traditional Chinese culture and modern technology, promote cultural communication, let the Jiaozhou paper-cutting culture into the more people's vision, inject the blood of the new era, so that the paper-cutting culture continues to carry forward. This topic is mainly in the form of visual design to show Shandong jiaozhou paper-cut art culture, let people a deeper understanding of the history and culture of jiaozhou paper-cut, through the history and culture of jiaozhou paper-cutting, form, modelling characteristics of further study, innovative design, paper-cut art IP image, paper-cut books design, etc., in the form of more novel jiaozhou paper-cut art culture show to the public