The Exterior Design of Books for the Visually Impaired

Abstract

Abstract. This paper will present the importance of the exterior design of books based on the needs of the visually impaired population. Based on the theories of book design, this paper will discuss about whether there is a need to focus on the exterior design of such books in real life and how to realize such design in order to achieve the consistency between the content and exterior form of such books. Meanwhile, this paper is expected to promote the study of book design for the disadvantaged.Books as a carrier of information transmission, more and more people become an indispensable part of daily life, especially in today's information age, there are plenty of books appear in front of us, concept books, electronic books, audio books, jumped out to challenge the traditional paper books, and so on from a technical means and different forms, special material and technology development trend to reflect the diversity of the books, in order to reveal the present rich and colorful art books, embodies the aesthetic and the pursuit of the vast number of people in this world. Usually, people in choosing a book is often decided by external form its purchase, collection, this also led to ignore the integrity of the internal structure of books, we can see from this form for the role of books in the ideology of people occupy the main determinants, and guides people's subjective judgment, and the understanding and evaluation of book design just stay on the pattern of beauty in appearance, and people also see to promote these new books to the form of excessive attention, so the content and form of relationship seems to be in a vague definition. Mr Lu jingren referred to in the "calligraphic art asks:" books design is a kind of "tectonics" is to build the external books formative physical ideas and rational thinking on the inner information of comprehensive knowledge, after the designer accurately grasp the content would then understanding of the subject from perceptual initiation, savvy and intellectual and overall, and after careful calculation, elaborate structure and logistically of rhythm and process steps such as organized and orderly construct designers' construct '" in the heart. Books design, therefore, is to build a whole structure, the concept of form a complete books are supposed to be external modelling of the structure of the building as well as the internal thoughts of emotional rendering, both through the analysis of rational conveys the connotation of books, finally to achieve the perfect fusion of books to read aesthetic and function, so that the content and form, art and function to achieve unification。 So many books as designers started to explore in the field of theory and practice of these problems, will rise to the definition of the overall book design level, no longer the superficial appearance, to interpret the concept of overall structure, contents and forms of the dialectical relationship between the theory and practice together throughout the entire process of design, the design theory of "function...