Creative Design for Paper Products in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chou, Chia Yu, 周家羽
• Other Authors: Wang, Teh Yu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09955897643708948115

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 視覺藝術學系碩士班 === 100 === Paper is one of the most common materials used in everyday life. Since the invention of paper, its lightness, convenience and inexpensiveness have made it popular all over the world. With the advancement of papermaking process, paper has become versatile in usage, having turning out various kinds of daily necessities. Paper certainly plays an important role in human civilization. Whilst industrialized manufacture has produced a wide variety of paper types, it also makes people neglect the original aesthetics and significance of paper. By exploring paper products with styles in design and diversity in texture quality, we can bring paper applications back to our lives and eventually appreciate its intrinsic beauty. In addition, we will be able to attain spiritual richness through experiencing the simplicity and warmth of paper. In order to introduce the true beauty of paper products to the public, we must start from the education of paper culture. Making handmade paper and appreciating paper crafts, even buildings made of paper, will not only give us a better understanding of paper, but also enrich our minds. The papermaking industry will also find prosperity through the promotion of paper culture, and the whole industry will be geared toward creative designs, while presenting an even greater versatility of paper to touch people’s hearts. It is true that currently there are not so many paper products with good design in Taiwan, and there are only a number of institutions in Taiwan dedicated to the education of paper culture. If we can encourage the public to treasure the legacy and ways of making papers in Taiwan through the promotion of paper products, benefits of culture and creative industries will be brought to the nation while the society gains an aesthetics refinement.