Research on the Innovative Design of Chinese Characters by Deconstruction

DOI

10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.118How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese characters; deconstructionist approach; font design; innovative design

Abstract

This study takes the regular script as an example. The author breaks down the spatial structure of Chinese characters by deconstruction, and forms a new font style to explore the possibility of Chinese character font design in the current era. Chinese writing is a formal system consisting of five levels from simplicity to complication: elements - individual strokes; modules - construction or components; units - individual Chinese characters; series - coherent text; mass - all Chinese characters. In this paper, the deconstructionist approach is introduced, in which the strokes (elements) of Chinese characters remain unchanged. Through the dispersal of the original structure of the characters and the establishment of different reorganization modes, multiple font forms of individual Chinese characters are created, and then a sequence or collection will be formed by choosing the combination modes with other Chinese characters, so as to meet the deep needs of users who hope to choose the ideal combination of fonts independently.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Hou Jing
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Research on the Innovative Design of Chinese Characters by Deconstruction
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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