On the modern design school

-- Yan Qifeng
Since the creation of the design, people have been exploring new designs all the time, but in these processes, only a few people's behavior or achievements have become "genre." Because they first realized the direction of social development and made explorations in line with historical trends, their achievements were accepted by people and recognized by history. So, design is the product of the times. Contemporaneous design and architecture, painting, music, and even people's lifestyles are intertwined, and new ideas, no matter from which aspect they begin to break through, represent future trends of thought and development. The pioneer of design should first be thought pioneer.

Of course, necessity is only one aspect. The contingency of sparks of inspiration often opens the way for inevitability.

In general, Easterners are sensible and Westerners are rational. This is one of the reasons why modern science comes from the West. Westerners like to use statistical, computational, inductive, deductive or comprehensive analysis of affairs, while Chinese people prefer poetry. Thinking boundless association, in order to obtain emotional harvest. However, in the history of design, the West has a stage of heavy rationality (such as Bauhaus) as well as emotional (such as the arts and crafts movement).

There is a story in Zhuangzi's “Heavenly Mantra”: Zi Gong returned from the South to the north, and the road encountered a farmer who took the water to farm. Zigong asked him, “Why don't you use the orange soup? One day, you can irrigate the garden and do more with less. And it was very labor-saving.” The farmer responded, “I am not unaware of it. It is only the use of machinery that will have an organic heart. People will have an organic heart and will make the meeting lose its innocence.” This is a typical manifestation of the ancient Chinese philosophy of “going with nature and uniting man and nature”. . Zhuang Zi is worried that human beings will lose the sentimentality of nature and be regarded as the appendages of machinery. This is similar to the theory of arts and crafts that Morris despises and opposes the scientific and technological rationality of mechanical production. They think that the mechanical industrial production that is alienated from human nature and created by hand is Can not have a way out, only the use of traditional natural materials. Only by taking nutrition from nature can we develop the human design aesthetics.

However, the wheel of history is rolling forward. Although "sweeping the water and drawing in the fields" is of a high spirit, it is difficult to satisfy people after all. Western figures are civilized and the emergence of new technologies has undoubtedly accelerated the development of material civilization. Rich human needs. Gradually accepted by %A