The development of Chinese seats has a long history, chairs and stolls is the most common in china, and is also the most early high type seat. Today,"The industrial revolution in order to make the maximum output, although it has brought us many benefits, but it makes us lose a lot of ancient culture and the basic values of human, the result is it let us feel the sense of alienation and the sense of emptiness". Small chairs and stools as a thing to reflect the real lifestyle, It has a close relationship with the traditional life and traditional culture. Facing the culture shock of globalization, it’s easy to into a vacant position in design. Blank design is only written in water, it may waste resource and make life messy, many high-tech design makes a person enchanted unceasingly, But not necessarily for the people.This project had made a market research from the seat’s market, the elements of design, the trend of future development; research on the contemporary users, analyzes the requirements such as living environment, consumer concept. On this basis, improve the modeling and decorative of the seats. Make the design with the traditional culture and traditional pattern, through the modeling design, the decorative pattern design, the structure, the material and so on. improve and perfect the using and aesthetic. The objective of this project is to add the choisce needs in people’s lives, inherit and brighten the national culture in using.It has carried on the improvement design from four aspects in the design process: namely series modelling design, interaction design, artistic conception design and application of a variety of materials. Make the design plan to have a certain sense from the series of ornamental and story; make a certain interactive sense through the using; And reflect the traditional culture in the design. The design includes five series, they are:The Chinese Zodiac series, Flower series, Font Family, Couple series, Auspicious series. Using wood, metal, rattan, glass, leather and other material, by some decoration method such as carving, paint, fill in and so on, through the refine from the pattern, shape, structure, color, and design them together. In this design, we keep the raw materials. |