This study used lots of literatures for analyze, the theme of literatures included majolica tiles, ornamentation, the theory of tea, semiotics, visual communication design, cultural-creative design, etc. Moreover, this study had field investigation for the ornament on majolica tiles in Kinmen. Also this study interviewed with four experts that can get more information for transforming to the cultural-creative design.
In Kinmen there is some old history behind each majolica tiles. As Kinmen is a special island with mystery history. However, you still can find it on the old houses, ruins or heritages. This study is going to discuss the background information and the form of expression on the majolica tiles, base on the literature analysis, expert interview and field investigation method. I hope that public can deeply understanding about majolica tiles due to my design works.
In this study, we found that tiles are related to our life. Therefore, transform the characteristics of majolica ties and combine with the tea culture. It can create cultural-creative products by new elements. Then we can learn from the pass and comprehend the situation nowadays, and inherited to next generation with cultural-creative design.
As the research that obtained with different information and transformed to the cultural-creative design, thus it can summarize to four points below: the majolica tiles record the long history of Kinmen, the application with five sense in oriental tea arts, cultural-creative design is the coding of cultural, diversity of visual design and media applications.