Owen Jones said: The essence of beauty is a feeling of peace. When the various desires of vision, reason and emotion are satisfied, the soul can feel this peace.
This sentence gave me a new understanding of beauty: Only by looking at it with a calm mind can we see the essence of beauty. Design is to create beautiful things. Before creating beautiful things, designers must first achieve this kind of calmness.
Design has a short history of development. It was only separated from fine arts and became an independent discipline in the 20th century.
Design has always aimed at functionality and aesthetics, which means that design is for better use and becomes more and more beautiful. However, early designs paid great attention to functionality, and even once regarded aesthetics as Dimensions are eliminated. Architect Sullivan once said: Form always follows function. This is the law. "Form here refers to pure design, which shows that early design paid attention to functionality.
The earliest computers both Big and bulky, not only related to technology, but also related to the concept of focusing on functionality. In the early days of Apple's establishment, it did not have many advantages in technology. In addition to the unique ideas of Qiao Gang, the biggest factor that made Apple stand out at the time was joining Design elements. At that time, people paid more and more attention to the functions of computers and wanted to make them more powerful. They did not hesitate to give up the beauty and add various components that can make the computer more powerful. However, Gang Leader Qiao instead put the computer into a "box" and became a computer. The earliest design prototypes of personal computers, from Apple 1 to Lisa to iPod to today’s iPhone For only a short 100 years, design criticism has been the main research field in design and the main driving force for the development and progress of design.
The early history of arts and crafts and architecture emphasized that the causes of artistic changes come from the environment and materials. Technology, like culture, is affected by the external environment at that time, but Austrian art historian Riegl put forward another angle of art
The spirituality of art
Art The spirituality is the free and creative artistic impulse. The work of art is a creative mental achievement, which is a material manifestation of the positive creative spirit of man, rather than a reflection of technical means or natural prototypes as mentioned earlier. Passive reaction, in layman's terms: design is an internal active creation rather than a passive expression influenced by the external environment.
When modern design first appeared, designers completely abandoned previous historical designs. They advocated. Avant-garde, any design related to historicism would arouse their dissatisfaction, and this design concept did not last long before being replaced by an eclectic concept that drew on tradition.
Just like everyone's perspective on physical objects is different. Similarly, some people like handwork, some like machinery, some like elegance, and some are obsessed with punk. These all represent personal opinions and tastes, and there is no right or wrong design.
Just like the history of the evolution of other things, there is always debate from personal opinions, from praise to criticism, to praise and criticism, and perhaps this is the catalyst for progress
For me. Everyone has a subjective opinion, and he just looks at the problem from his own point of view. Even if he is right, he is looking at it from a personal point of view.
Whether from a design perspective or from other perspectives, Everything is not necessarily either/or. When explaining your own point of view, you do not have to deny other points of view to prove that you are right. It is enough to emphasize what you think is better.
The concept of eclecticism and the aesthetic movement’s perspective on design allowed me to determine my own values ??when designing and looking at anything.
Designs that “do not regard nature as a model of beauty” are treated equally as designs that “imitate nature”.
Two seemingly opposing views can actually be perfectly combined and both can be used for reference. I remember a while ago that I saw a symphony orchestra using an interesting form to present the trivial matters of people's daily life at work and off work in the form of a symphony. Although it has been criticized by more people, I feel that this combination of art and life can bring more interest, rather than elegance and boredom.
Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Choir
Add any possibility to create more mix-and-match in modern design, just like this society no longer has a simple industry, but a certain Just like the perfect cross-border and integration between an industry and another industry can create greater competitiveness, this kind of design without any subjective consciousness, drawing on various designs, whether modern or ancient, domestic or foreign, allows designers to Drawing inspiration from such a wealth of resources makes designing increasingly interesting, rather than boring.
In addition to the functionality and aesthetics of the design itself, adding more interest may be the most important concept in design to cater to modern people.