Food packaging is the most dynamic and fastest growing national economy one of the industry, it not only meet the demand of people’s material life, but also to people’s mental world and social culture, has a very important influence. As a result, the ecological design of food packaging also has the positive significance of construction of ecological civilization.This paper integrated design and human ecology research methods, to food packaging as the research object, applying the idea of ecological holism, the formation of the ecological design concept, connotation and design principles of systematic inquiry. On this basis, focus on food packaging and ecological technology, ecological benefits, consumer culture and illustrates the relationship between people’s spiritual life, and the current situation of ecological design of food packaging for packing design concepts, methods and problems existing in the practice of reflection and criticism.First of all, on the base of Chinese traditional culture and western ecological aesthetics thought has analyzed the connotation of ecological holism thought, at home and abroad and combining the theory of ecological design, ecological design concept, purpose, values, view of science and technology, and the evaluation method of ecological design are briefly explained. Secondly by ecological packaging materials, production process clean and clean production pattern development present situation, elaborated the food packaging design make full use of natural resources of ecological benefits. The third from the Angle of the construction of ecological civilization, ecological design principles of food packaging are reviewed, and the alienation of consumer culture of packaging design, methods and practices for the reflection and criticism. The fourth proposed the ecological design of food packaging should not only pay attention to the "reduction", ecological benefits of reutilization design, also to pay attention to the social harmony and public mental and emotional development of the world, and advocate for food packaging design also can be in the form of the nonphysical to satisfy people’s material needs, to throw off the shackles of material desire, out of the pursuit of material life without limit the development will drown in misdirection. |