100 Years 100 Product Designers

Author: Dong Huiming
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book introduces the works of the world's 100 most renowned design masters. As readers carefully appreciate their works, they will find that there are huge differences between them, and even their concepts may be contradictory! And precisely because of this, the world is rich and diverse. Compared to the world, industrial design in China has only just begun. Moreover, due to the rapid pace of economic growth, Chinese designers who have jumped onto this bandwagon have had no time to fully consider the design challenges they face, leading to crude imitation or mediocre so-called "design innovation" becoming an embarrassing spectacle in Chinese manufacturing in the last two decades of the 20th century, which is highly inconsistent with the image of our "hardworking and intelligent" nation. The author hopes, through this book rich in design philosophy and future high-quality design publications, to convey the following message to our industrial design community: Only design creation deeply rooted in cultural heritage can give birth to vibrant novelty; learning from the spirit of masters and deeply understanding the mysteries of morphological characteristics can only be achieved through careful reflection on the meaning of the words; and by putting more humanistic thought into the design process, the quality of the work will be elevated. Only in this way can Chinese design reach a level comparable to the world in some era of the 21st century. This book introduces the works of the world's 100 most renowned design masters. As readers carefully appreciate their works, they will find that there are huge differences between them, and even their concepts may be contradictory! And precisely because of this, the world is rich and diverse. Compared to the world, industrial design in China has only just begun. Moreover, due to the rapid pace of economic growth, Chinese designers who have jumped onto this bandwagon have had no time to fully consider the design challenges they face, leading to crude imitation or mediocre so-called "design innovation" becoming an embarrassing spectacle in Chinese manufacturing in the last two decades of the 20th century, which is highly inconsistent with the image of our "hardworking and intelligent" nation. The author hopes, through this book rich in design philosophy and future high-quality design publications, to convey the following message to our industrial design community: Only design creation deeply rooted in cultural heritage can give birth to vibrant novelty; learning from the spirit of masters and deeply understanding the mysteries of morphological characteristics can only be achieved through careful reflection on the meaning of the words; and by putting more humanistic thought into the design process, the quality of the work will be elevated. Only in this way can Chinese design reach a level comparable to the world in some era of the 21st century.