중국 전통 사상과 디자인 - 도가(道家) 디자인 요소를 중심으로 -

I illuminate the elements of the contemporary Daoism design according to the case study using the approach method of the correlation with the history and culture. It would be the point of the paper that the mainstream of contemporary Daoism design would be as follows: nothing, nature and stroll. It would be considered that in the macro level be the historic and cultural nationality and in the micro level be the economic development and China people`s cultural tradition elements. The related theories parts have included twofold: generalized related design theories and specific Daoism related theories. The generalized related theories have included the correct definition of generalized design and its interpretation of traditional design theories. And the specific related theories have explained ‘dao’ and nothing, nature and stroll according to the ancient, middle age and modern historical periods. The characteristics of Daoism design define the practices of ‘dao’ and the thoughts and methods pursue ‘nothing’. The contexts of Daoism desine have three periods: in ancient period, Daoism design aesthetics have set up the unification of patterned models of nothing and simplicity, in middle age period, Daoism design have infused designers self aesthetics-shen and outer visualities-xing and they were from Huainanzi. And in modern period, design have expressed junxingzhe, yinyangpinghengguan and wuxingshengke principles. Three Daoism elements have included designing void spaces from ‘nothing’, and ‘nature’ has represented simplicities, and ‘stroll’ has expressed spiritual freedom. In conclusion, I would suggest three points that first, the modernity processing of contemporary Daoism design have had three main elements as nothing, nature and stroll, second, the transition period in the meaning of the modernization of tradition legacies of Chinese history and culture had added to the ideal-typed contemporary Daoism design, and third, Chinese contemporary Daoism design would have constant development possibilities because of the mixed background of East and West civilization and the advent of China and Asian period.