Design and illustration of the book"Chinese Space Dream"

Abstract

In today's world, the development of space technology is an important manifestation of a country's comprehensive national strength. Since the founding of New China, China has been vigorously developing space technology and stepping step by step into the deeper universe. Birds yearn to fly out of the sky, humans yearn to fly out of the earth. From the fairy tale of Chang 'e flying to the moon to the forefront of China's space technology today, countless people yearn for flying out of the sky like birds, thus forming China's unique flying dream. Flying dream is an important part of Chinese culture, but also an important part of the dream of power. Chinese traditional culture is the crystallization of Chinese people's wisdom. The combination of picture books and traditional culture can better promote Chinese traditional culture. Among the types of science popularization related to the development of China's space industry, the number of picture books is small, and the types are not rich enough. Due to the late start of Chinese picture books, the development of picture books is not perfect, and the number of original picture books is small, which still cannot meet the needs of the market. This graduation project is based on the Chinese flying Dream, combining the development of China's space with the elements of China's flying dream and Chinese mythology, showing the inheritance and development of China's space dream in the form of picture books, focusing on reproducing the charm of China's flying dream for readers, showing the connection between the past and the future of China's space dream, inheriting from the past and looking forward to the future. The content of the picture book is designed around the development of China's space industry, and at the same time, the brand logo, character images, posters and peripheral products are designed in line with the overall tone. The book is divided into two chapters in ancient and modern order: "From the past - Their Stories"; "Looking to the Future - Our Story". It tells eight flying stories from Mozi making wood kite to "Zhurong" landing on Mars.