Hidden Value Dominant Value

AbstractThe world is facing the impact of globalization, especially the design. World Design Congress 2009, Beijing, let the world know the Chinese design, so we have a better understanding of the world design trends. China's design show leaps and bounds, the Chinese design educa-tion too, and design education in the transformation, the designer's role is the conversion, the best response to the outcome of arts education institutions, "the graduation project" is relating this development change by the most direct way.The graduation project is the final stage in the teaching process with a summary of practical teaching. Through the graduation project, students can make comprehensive application of learned knowledge and skills to conduct comprehensive and systematic practice of the ability of students to professional practice, knowledge and training of the integrated display. The graduation project is the student's "first voice", but also is the school teaching ideas, cur-riculum and teaching process and the quality of a typical sample. The thesis take "the gradu-ation project" as research object, under the words of visual communication professional background, based on U.S. Rhode Island School of Design and the Central Academy of Fine Arts College of Design graduation project to start research, from a graduate perspective, select the two school graduation project illustrative cases to launch the analysis, mainly revolves the graduation project selected topic, the graduation project and the curriculum, graduation project teacher the factor, the graduation project appraisal mechanism, the graduation project with aspects and so on individual value demand analyzes the two school graduation project "the common ground" and "the difference" and the reason.By the research of graduation project -the special "Design Event", we hope can lead to the graduation project goal and significance, graduation project teaching and design educa-tion and other issues as deep thinking and exploration.