The document discusses Chinese design elements and their symbolic meanings. Colors are used to represent different concepts - red represents honesty, black represents seriousness, white represents treachery, blue represents calmness, and yellow represents brightness. Certain shapes and designs are meant to make clothing more aesthetically pleasing. Dragons, butterflies, and other motifs have special meanings in Chinese culture. The document also presents final designs for a mask and costume with explanations for design choices based on symbolic color meanings.
This is the second assignment of IST616 in iSchool Syracuse in Fall 2012. The requirement of this assignment is to analysis an classification. And the classification scheme I chose was Culture Classification designed by Virtual Terrain Project: http://vterrain.org/Culture/culture_class.html
This is the second assignment of IST616 in iSchool Syracuse in Fall 2012. The requirement of this assignment is to analysis an classification. And the classification scheme I chose was Culture Classification designed by Virtual Terrain Project: http://vterrain.org/Culture/culture_class.html
2. It looks like a hero
Red representative is guan yu
Red shows honest
Black shows seriously
White color shows treachery
White representative is cao
Black representative is bao zheng
(Chinese name)
Black shows seriously
3. Blue shows calmly
Blue representative is dou er
dun (Chinese name)
That circle represent sun
Golden representative is ru
lai (Chinese name)
Golden shows god
He was the fattest budder
That blue whited color looks
like water flowing.
4. Dragon shows for king
Yellow is bright so sometimes it’s
Really love studying man wearing
this cloth
This flower shows more beautiful
This shape is making this cloth
better to show to other people
Blue shows calm
5. This shoes shape is simple
This is for men’s to wear
There are dragons so it’s look
Workers leader can have this flags
There are many beautiful shapes
It’s for men to wear
The shape is beautiful
There are dark and light blue
6. Final mask design
Black shows serious so I chose
this color
Red shows honest so I chose this
color
I made some shapes so that it will
Final costume design
Red shows honest so I chose this
color
I drew yellow butterfly
I chose golden color, because gold