Chinese Modern Product Design For 35 Years

Modern product design from clothing, eating, housing, transportation, using and other aspects has built our lives, to some extent, it also reflects the change of our lifestyle and ideology. China’s modern product design is accompanied the modernization of China’s reform and opening up, development and introduction, experience a process from theory to practice, as well as from copying the West to a process of self-awakening of local design. In the process of development, the academic circles and the business circles due to the gap of starting point and went on their different ways of development. At the same time, the relationship between the two circles has also undergone a process from seperated completely with each other to the mutual integration.For China’s own development of modern product design, from traditional crafts creations to the creation of a modern quality, it connects the past life as well as the future. In the context of globalization, Cultural collision between East and West also enable the product design to a development of integration and this type of integration also allows us to see the Chinese modern product design is exploring its own developing way. Although the Chinese modern product design development for 35 years has its own complex problems, its intrinsic value is still needed to be confirmed. This article is based on the background of reform and opening up,and searching along with two main lines, which involves the academic circles and the business circles,then hope to show the basic developing appearance of chinese modern product design during the 35 years.