This study reports on the cover of ancient Korea books, focusing on patterns of existing reports to find common ground as basis for the analysis of the pattern and subsequently creating a new design which can be recognized by the world design market. ...
This study reports on the cover of ancient Korea books, focusing on patterns of existing reports to find common ground as basis for the analysis of the pattern and subsequently creating a new design which can be recognized by the world design market. This aims to showcase the knowledge of Korea in the development of new textile design and to contribute to research. The study covers the analysis of various patterns to include those that: show humans and beautiful figuration such as in 'Plant Patterns'; gave fear or benefits to humans such as in 'Animal Patterns'; simple lines and shapes which are the most primitive form of expression from prehistoric times, the means by which the first humans began to express, the 'Geometry Patterns' which shows the thing itself rather than the auspicious meaning of object which are imprinted in 'Auspicious Patterns'. The report research methods include: data collection on Korea book cover pattern, Korea traditional pattern, and patterns associated with foreign professional books; literature review of papers and previous studies, data analysis, and use the Internet to search for information from DB. Specific ancient Korea book cover patterns were analyzed with the use of Photoshop (Adobe Photoshop CS3) and Illustrator (Adobe Illustrator CS2) and after reconfiguring the design which previously consisted of colorless designs, various color patterns were added to enhance the design thus producing a beautiful newly designed modern Korea textile design.
The results of this study are as follows: First, most of the reports cover patterns may initially look different when viewed one by one, however, each framework has a similar look, and it belongs to a representative type of pattern, reconfiguring was necessary to find some of the rules for each pattern. Second, matching colors were arranged randomly, it was not meant to represent each pattern but to match an array of colors and patterns that make up the elements of line and color was used to harmonize these elements with each other. Third, the textile design was of a different color and thus was able to have a distinct subject matter. The plant motifs as compared to other textile designs were stylized by adding natural feelings to murals and brilliant color flowers thus expressing design splendor and beauty. Dragon motif which is the most commonly used motif in Animal Patterns is a dynamic figure wherein a color was used to represent the borrowed seoul color and the weather. Geometry Patterns represent the metaphysical aspects of geometry and the use of the blue-colored lines as a representation of the face tend to be a little more rational. Auspicious Patterns usually represent that which we so often feel comfortable writing thus a series of round and brown color combination was used.
Almost everything that the writer wants to express in their reports are expressed in the cover and does not stray away from patterns. Various patterns overlap in the same category and have different development patterns, however in the creation of a new design, the features and the beauty of Korea has to be maintained. A great number of factors determine the pattern of report covers to include the different design disciplines and this is also useful in textile design. The use of antique cover designs in the development of new locals designs may be considered to make a difference in the future global textile design which could possibly capture the attention of consumers all over the world.