Trace The Design Primitive

No matter the design of daily used knife or the flying plane in the sky, the designappears everywhere in our daily life. Since the invention of design, the destination of itis to fulfill the necessary of human beings’daily life and productivity in the large scale,provides a big convenience in the life, and becomes a significance components.However, with the change of the traditional idea, the lost of the concepts,andmethodology, and other questions result in the design that is contrary to the original ideawhich is to fulfill the demands of human beings’ life, and set the foot in the chaos out ofthe life. In terms of China’s modern design, In order to chase “Chinese Characteristic”,only to paste Chinese symbol simply and become a performance form, causing the lackof Chinese spirit connotation; Combined with the prevalence of consumerism concepts,blind to pursuit of novelty, makes the design to be a money maker. The phenomenonsuch as the name of design is abused for excessive packaging, waste of resources,environmental damage etc is emerge in endlessly...This article is focused on these series of questions and offer the idea “originaldesign”, to initiate the destination of the design to be original again. Borrow khalilgibran’s poem,“We have gone too far, so forget why set out", I hope that in the processof chasing the modern design, the “origin” would not be forgotten. What does originmean? Origin means foundation, root, the source of all attributes and the nature of theinitial state. There are no water without resources and no forests without roots, the birthof the design springs out of the nature and life, and circles to come back to the natureand life again. Under the condition of unbalanced development in modern design, wemight as well try the ancient way, come back to the origin in search for the wisdom tosolve the problems of life, and enable the design to have its traditional values. Thisarticle comprehensive combing the theory connotation of origin design, through theexplanation of original design to chase the destination of human, nature, and life inharmony, so as to guide the practice of Chinese modern design, using the methods ofcoming back to nature, human and life to restore the true face of design purpose; Thekey point is starting from life style to explore the development of modern design in newvisions, and hope to correct the bias and limitations in our country’s design area,Towards the road forward embodies the humane care and lifestyle to provide anideological basis for modern design. The source to find design was originally intended, every designer should be worth pondering, it has to play a huge role in promoting thedevelopment of the entire field of design and humankind as a whole.