Inspiration from Biology: Exploration of the Application of Bionic

Design Elements in the Design of Cultural Creative Products

Dan Sun

School of Art & Design, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, China

Keywords: Bionic Design, Cultural Creativity, Product Design, Visual Design.

Abstract: With the development of the times, people's life concepts, lifestyles and thoughts are also constantly

changing, and the demand for cultural products is paying more and more attention to creativity and

innovation. Since ancient times, nature has been the source of human enlightenment. As a design method,

bionic design not only has a unique sense of beauty, but also makes product design more vital and

appealing. The research focus of this topic is to take the inspiration brought by biology as the starting point,

with the help of the form elements, color elements, structural elements, functional elements and symbolic

meanings in the bionic design, to find new ideas in the design and development of cultural and creative

products. Inspiration, the application and exploration of the utilization, processing and re-creation of the

external morphological characteristics and internal functional structure of living beings, and giving products

a new way of spreading while presenting cultural connotations. The aim is to summarize the innovative

thinking methods that transform natural biological characteristics into product design applications, and

provide reference and new ideas for promoting the development and design of cultural creative products.

1 INTRODUCTION

Bionic design is to extract a large number of novel

bionic creative thinking and harmonious and

continuous design methods by simulating nature to

design more and better products to meet the growing

material and spiritual needs of consumers. Visual

design constantly proposes new bionic design

concepts, and actively seeks design methods and

methods that combine design with nature. The

design product visually reflects the visual

characteristics of human beings and the natural

environment in harmony. Designers can use the

creatures and natural existences in nature as the

basis to extract elements with bionic meaning, and

combine advanced science and technology to apply

visual symbols with bionic meaning to the creative

performance of products, which can satisfy

consumers. Improved aesthetic requirements

promote the application of bionic elements in

product visual design. With the progress of science

and technology, the level of productivity and the

continuous improvement of economy, the bionic

elements in nature will be continuously extracted

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and applied in the visual design of products, which

will directly promote the continuous improvement of

the design level of the entire society and the level of

social economy.

In the research on the elements of bionic design,

many scholars have studied them and achieved many

results. For example, Brandl summarized some

methods of bionic design in design applications, and

summarized exaggeration, simplification,

deformation, decomposition and combination, etc.

The application of design techniques in the bionic

design of product form points out that these design

techniques are not encouraged by each, but are

interconnected (Brandl 2017). No matter what kind

of design technique is used, the needs of product

form and structure must be combined in the process

of refining the form, rather than simply refining the

form. In related research, Alekberli T classified

bionic design into intentional bionic design and fun

bionic design, and classified the characteristics and

concepts of different bionic designs (Alekberli

2021). Kozlobaeva E A constructed a theoretical

model from biological prototypes to bionic design

procedures and a theoretical model from product

problems to bionic design procedures, and created

procedures and methods for morphological bionic

Sun, D.

Inspiration from Biology: Exploration of the Application of Bionic Design Elements in the Design of Cultural Creative Products.

DOI: 10.5220/0011228600003443

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optimization (Kozlobaeva 2018). These scholars

have done a lot of research on bionic design, which

provides a good theoretical and research foundation

for this article.

This article has studied various design methods

in bionic design; such as partial method, overall

method, metaphor method, etc., and explained the

methods, and carried out actual practice in terms of

the ownership of bionic cultural and creative

products and the purchase type intention of bionic

cultural and creative products. Questionnaire survey,

a total of 650 questionnaires, 644 valid

questionnaires, the effective questionnaire rate is

98%, including 388 male questionnaires and 256

female questionnaires.

In this way, we can better understand the needs

of consumers and strive for the usefulness, detail and

reliability of the questionnaire.

2 THE DESIGN METHOD OF

BIONIC DESIGN ELEMENTS

IN THE DESIGN OF

CULTURAL AND CREATIVE

PRODUCTS

In the process of product design, bionic design

extracts elements from organisms, establishes a

connection with the structure of the product, and

then converts this connection into the unique

functions or ornamental features of the product. The

most commonly used design methods when the

bionic design is applied in the product design

process include the partial method, the overall

method, and the metaphorical abstraction method

(Liu 2020).

2.1 Local Method

The local method is a design principle that extracts

the most representative feature of the biological

form, abstracts, refines and transforms it into the

product design form. In nature, certain local features

of some creatures are distinctive, impressive, and

often have unique aesthetics. For example, the

colorful colors and delicate patterns in butterfly

wings often provide creativity for color matching

and application in graphic design. The eyes of the

fly, the pliers of the praying mantis, the wings of the

birds, etc., because of their unique structure and

function, have helped people obtain inspiration in

the design of many products, and have formed many

product design schemes that have changed our

traditional lives. Partially extract design elements

and transform them into product features related to

product function or structure. It has a wide range of

applications in product design. The design feature of

local method is to extract and strengthen. In the

process of design, grasp biological The most

distinctive personality characteristics, through the

imitation and reinforcement of the form, derive these

characteristics with the corresponding more

distinctive structure, color or function (Zhang 2020).

The first step in the application of the local method

is the relationship between the biological structure

and the product structure, which itself is based on

the designer's full understanding of the product and

biological characteristics, combined with its own

association to create a unique connection point, and

thus form a product idea. The local bionic design is

simple to operate and directly applied, and it is also

the most widely used in bionic design (Chen 2020,

Wang 2021).

2.2 Holistic Method

The holistic method is to extract the features that

best summarize the shape from the entire structure

of the organism after a comprehensive observation

and analysis of the biological shape, and then use

concise colors or lines to generalize, and use the

design method to coordinate deformation and

reorganization to transform it. Transform into a

product form with this biological aesthetic or

behavioral characteristics. The holistic method also

has a lot of applications in the field of product

design. For example, when the aircraft was first

invented, its shape characteristics fully absorbed the

shape characteristics of birds and the dynamic

characteristics of bird flight, even if the development

is achieved today, The shape of the airplane has

undergone great changes, but it still has a very

similar appearance to birds (Alekberli 2020). There

are also lightings that are widely used in modern

homes. Many lightings have been designed to absorb

some morphological features of lotus,

chrysanthemum and other plants. After extracting

them with simple lines, they are completely

transformed into the appearance of lighting, so In the

process of providing people with lighting, lamps and

lanterns also bring people a certain natural

experience (Laszlo 2017, Berg 2017). For example,

a lotus-like chandelier can bring a different kind of

vivid emotion that belongs to the lotus in the room.

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2.3 Metaphorical Abstraction

Although partial extraction and overall

generalization design have certain applications in

bionic design, in modern times, in order to meet the

needs of industrial production, the application of

bionic elements to most products is not so direct, but

after sufficient metaphorical abstraction. ,

Summarize some of the characteristics of biology

into unique colors, lines, and structures, and

transform into products with a higher degree of

integration with products, form, color and structure

(Gardan 2017). Metaphorical abstraction itself is a

step that must be implemented in bionic design. The

metaphorical abstraction mentioned here is more

used to express a deep and highly abstract form of

bionic design.

2.4 Observation Method

Observation method is the purposeful and planned

observation and observation of the existing products

and the behavior of consumers in the process of

using the products by the designer, so as to obtain

true and reliable information, find the shortcomings

of the product, and then carry out the improvement

design, and put the product on the market.

Observing in the environment is the most true and

reliable source of information (Kahn 2017).

3 EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

ON THE APPLICATION OF

BIONIC DESIGN ELEMENTS

IN THE DESIGN OF

CULTURAL AND CREATIVE

PRODUCTS

3.1 Investigation Direction

With the development of economy and the progress

of society, the current bionic cultural and creative

products are gradually attracting the attention of

consumers. The interesting, aesthetic, and

comfortable room bionic cultural and creative

products are increasingly interested by consumers

and willing to spend money on cultural and creative

products. key point. Cultural creative products are

no longer just ordinary commemorative products,

but also a product that attracts consumers' attention

and meets consumers' needs for culture and

creativity. Based on the survey of consumers’ needs,

this paper uses questionnaires to conduct detailed

questionnaire surveys, and examine consumers’

demand for bionic cultural products by analyzing

consumers’ possession of bionic cultural and

creative products and consumer expectations of

bionic cultural and creative products. Trend, in order

to bring certain reference materials for the bionic

cultural and creative product market.

3.2 Sources of Experimental Data

Different ages, genders, and personalities have

different requirements for color, shape, function,

texture, and texture of bionic cultural creative

products. This survey analyzes people in the 20-30

age group, and analyzes men and women in this age

group. The demand for bionic cultural and creative

products, the reference value of purchasing power

and the opinions of young people, the expected

value of bionic creative cultural products; the

analysis of the degree of application of bionic

content such as the shape, function, color, texture

and texture of natural objects in indoor textiles is To

study the key points of the market practice of bionic

design and application, in this survey, a total of 650

questionnaires were distributed in a coastal city,

with 644 valid questionnaires, and the effective

questionnaire rate reached 98%. Among them, 388

were male questionnaires and 256 were female

questionnaires. In this way, we can better understand

the needs of consumers and strive for the usefulness,

detail and reliability of the questionnaire.

3.3 Reliability Analysis

Reliability analysis is an important process of

content analysis. Only through strict reliability

analysis can the content analysis results be reliable.

The reliability formula of content analysis used in

this study is:

×−+

)1(1

(1)

In the formula, R stands for reliability, K refers

to the degree of mutual agreement between two

judges, and refers to the average of the degree of

mutual agreement between the judges. The formula

for calculating the K value is:

(2)

M is the column that both agree completely, N1

is the number of columns analyzed by the first

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judge, and N2 is the number of columns analyzed by

the second judge.

4 ANALYSIS OF THE

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OF

THE APPLICATION OF

BIONIC DESIGN ELEMENTS

IN THE DESIGN OF

CULTURAL CREATIVE

PRODUCTS

4.1 Analysis of Ownership Rate of

Bionic Cultural and Creative

Products

With the development of the economy, my country’s

cultural and creative products have developed

rapidly. In particular, bionic cultural creativity has

been paid more and more attention. The light

industry in coastal areas is relatively developed,

which can be used for reference to the design of

bionic cultural and creative products in the country.

The results of the questionnaire are as follows Table

1 shows:

Table 1: Analysis table of experimental results.

Subject's attitude male female

Have 39 25

No 122 118

a bit less 156 78

More 45 21

Very much 26 14

It can be seen from the figure 1 that there are 240

people without bionic cultural and creative products,

accounting for 37% of the total, ranking first in

proportion.

The number of people who have relatively few

bionic cultural and creative products is 234,

accounting for 36% of the total number of people,

ranking second, and the number of people who have

a relatively large number of bionic creative cultural

products is 66, accounting for 10% of the total

number of people, ranking third. From this analysis,

it is concluded that most people have few or no

bionic cultural and creative products, and that bionic

cultural and creative products have considerable

market prospects in the entire cultural and creative

product market.

Figure 1: Analysis diagram of experimental results.

4.2 Analysis of Expected Value of

Bionic Cultural and Creative

Products

In response to a questionnaire survey of 644 bionic

cultural and creative products, this article also

analyzed the intention of purchasing types of bionic

cultural and creative products. Interviewed 644

experimental subjects to confirm their types of

bionic cultural and creative products. The results are

shown in Table 2:

Table 2: Questionnaire for purchase types.

Type of purchase male female

Decorations 63 98

Utility 156 108

Stationery 48 50

apparel 30 32

food 20 16

other 10 13

It can be seen from Figure 2 that 161 people

choose decorations, accounting for 25% of the total,

and 264 people choosing practical products account

for 41% of the total. The others are 98 for stationery,

62 for clothing, 36 for food, and 23 for the other,

corresponding to the experiment. The subject's

investigation of the types of bionic cultural and

creative products' purchase intentions found that

tourists' purchase of cultural and creative products is

mainly based on practicality, so bionic cultural and

creative products should be based on practical

product development.

122

156

118

100

150

200

Have No a bit

less

More Very

much

Number of people

Subject’s attitude

male female

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Figure 2: Survey chart of purchase types

5 CONCLUSIONS

Design comes from life and nature. This article takes

this as the starting point, and uses the questionnaire

method to conduct detailed interviews with

consumers, gain insights into consumers’ demand

for bionic cultural and creative products, and visit

cultural creativity. Product prospects and bionic

design bring fashion, interest and vividness to the

product. Personalized bionic cultural and creative

products have become an inevitable trend. However,

there are still some shortcomings in this experiment.

For example, the age of the experimental subjects

tends to be younger and cannot represent consumers

as a whole, and the experiment is actually carried

out in a relatively relaxed environment. The actual

environment may be very different from the

experimental environment, and the environment may

also be It is one of the factors that affect the

purchase demand. These are not considered. We

hope that further improvements will be made in

subsequent experiments to make the experiment

more universal.

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