The Research On The Development Of Product Design Style After The Post-modernism

Design style shows the human civilization in a specific historical stage. It has very close corresponding relationship with the related social background. There is no design style comes out without any reason in history. It must have relationship with the objective social elements such as politics, economy, culture and the human elements. All of the different elements work together and result in the design style.Because architecture shows the related social elements directly and clearly, a new design style usually comes into sight in the field of architecture design first and then appears in the field of product design. It directs the manufacture, gives shape to man-made objects and comes to be a main design style in a period. But products are closely linked to people's daily life, they carry our aesthetics and have the capability to spread and extend the style in the most direct and wide way.Since 1950's, human society has been coming into an interval of time between the industrial society and the post- industrial society. It is the inevitable course of history. When the social characteristic elements are new, the product design style must change. During the interim, the classical modern style was impacted by the post-modern style. The post-modern style brought the treachery, but at the same time, it brought chaos too. It's failure approved that it's not fit the development of the post-modern society, so we should still try to find the future product design style that really works.With the method that combines the macroscopic discussion and the microcosmic analysis, this thesis sets out from the actuality of the development of the post-modern society. With the method that combines the theoretic expatiation and case studies, this thesis takes the practice of the historic design style as evidence, tries to find out a right result for the new product design style after the post-modernism.Firstly this thesis grasps the characteristic and the rule of the post-modernism theory, secondly follows the time line to analysis the post-modern style and the different exploring design styles. We can get the clue from the forms, the ideas and the person of importance, find out the related social background and the relationship between the social elements and the design style. Furthermore, this thesis researches the trend of the future society theoretically, speculates about the characteristic elements of the future society. With the researching, we can forecast the challenge and the problems we will meet in the future. Whether the new product design style can solve the problem and conquer the challenge and fit the trend of the future society, is very important for us to establish it.Based on the above two-aspects research, we can assay and conclude the dregs and the soul of the different exploring design styles after the post-modern style. As we find out the characteristics and the trend of the new product design style, grasp the trend of the future design, we can screen out the right design style elements that fit the grown post-modern society, and describe the true face of the future product design style.