Traditional ethnic patterns contain the minority people’s love of beauty,happiness,the pursuit of a better life,has the rich national flavor,to showcase its aesthetic concept,is an important resource of visual communication design,and visual design is to transfer the designer with visual art element information,achieve the dissemination and promotion effect try to apply the traditional ethnic pattern to the visual communication design,the design as a visual art element,designed to meet the mass cultural and psychological structure of the works, will enrich the visual design performance category,improve the visual design effect,open up new situation of the development of visual communication design.