Employing Technologies to Apply Ethnic Motifs into Contemporary Product Design

Abstract

In the field of contemporary design, designers are faced with the challenge of how to effectively integrate traditional ethnic motifs into contemporary design. This involves crosscultural communication, maintaining cultural authenticity, and design innovation. Despite the existence of a large number of studies on traditional motifs, designers still lack a systematic approach to their practical application. At the same time, the development of scientific and technological means (such as CNC and 3D printing) has provided new possibilities for design, but how to combine these technologies with traditional motifs still needs to be explored. This research aims to provide a systematic design process to help designers from the preliminary research, selection and transformation of ethnic motifs, prototyping to optimization. By analyzing successful cases, different application strategies and design techniques are extracted, and a specific set of guidelines is proposed by combining with contemporary technology. The research results show that using this process, designers can not only improve the efficiency and accuracy of design, but also achieve cultural inheritance and innovation in design, avoiding cultural appropriation and cultural taboos. Through this research, it is hoped that designers will be provided with practical tools and methods to promote cultural exchange and diversity in contemporary design and to advance the practice of design.