Research And Expound The Connotation Of Minimalism Product Design

Minimalism, is one of the important trends of modern western art in the 1960s, it widely influenced the fields of art, fashion, architecture and design. Minimalism in product design began popular from the 1980s, it is an aesthetic style which pursuit of extremely simple. Minimalism follows the design concept of "less is more", adapts to the development of modern society and people's lives, so has a sustained and strong development trend. At present, the research on Minimalism mainly concentrated in the field of Fine art and Architecture, and there is a lack of systematic research on Minimalist product design. The main jobs of this thesis are as follows:(1) Summarize the Minimalist style on product design, including an overview of Minimalism, background, historical development, further more, and analyze its design features.(2) Research and analyze the deep meaning of Minimalist product design, including philosophical basis and ideological origins, aesthetic connotation, society meaning. Minimalism meets with people's aesthetic and social needs, and fulfils the functional requirements and spiritual needs of products.(3) Select representative designers of Minimalist product design in different cultural backgrounds, analyzing their design concepts and representative works. Minimalist style of design based on some essential points of "simple", "practical", "quality", which shows the designers'great wish of human care and the attempt to create a better life.(4) Based on above discussions, summarize the practical and guiding meaning of Minimalist design:â‘ Design which focus on "essence";â‘¡From the creation of products to the creation of relationship with products;â‘¢Poetic design. At last, point out some error points that should be avoid in Minimalist design, and analyze the exploration and application of Minimalism product design in China.(5) Finally, using a product design practice to proof the theoretical analysis is reasonable.