Experience Design. Color

Author: Zhou Gang
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Design fundamentals cover four main aspects: design focused on training observation skills, aesthetic skills, shaping skills, and expressive skills; design fundamentals centered on form, function, scale, materials, and craftsmanship technology; national culture fundamentals primarily covering patterns, decoration, and traditional Chinese culture; design theory fundamentals focusing on design history and basic design theory. Design fundamentals education is a preliminary design education under the concept of design without specific professional boundaries, with an academic philosophy that is open-ended, broad, and solid. Its teaching characteristics are diverse, multi-dimensional, multi-layered, and chain-like. The essence of its educational ideal is not targeted at any specific major and does not overly emphasize design applications, aiming to develop learners' thinking, creative, and hands-on abilities, ultimately achieving the transition from concept to practice. Design fundamentals training helps aspiring design students break free from their existing habitual thinking patterns, gradually transforming from a "natural person" mindset to a "designer" mindset. Therefore, it is an exploratory preliminary education aimed at cultivating outstanding design talents. Design color is a color shaping form guided by design concepts, involving various color sketches, color research, and practical color activities conducted with the teaching goal of art design. For a long period, in the color teaching of design disciplines, we followed the teaching content and methods of shaping disciplines, encountering numerous difficult-to-solve problems in both teaching and design applications, making us deeply aware of the differences between the two. How to make color training become the essential training for design creation rather than just training for artistic expression has become a crucial issue for design color shaping teaching to research and resolve. Many design educators and practitioners have reconsidered design fundamentals education from the end of design practice, actively exploring the concepts, objectives, methods, and significance of color teaching as a part of design shaping fundamentals education.