晓犁:你好!你来信问我,设计既然不是一般地出个“花样”就行了,那么设计到底是什么?你说看过洋洋万言的工业设计史,也终不得要旨。好,这也是我近年来在教学中经常要解答的问题。“不得要旨”不是史本身的问题,而是理解上的问题。我的理解,也不见得高明,写给你仅供参考吧。从现代主义到后现代主义近百年的过程中,曾闪现过五花八门的设计思想。但细究起来,都不免有些偏颇。况且,五花八门的总合又是那么冗繁。 Xiao Li: Hello! You asked me a letter, since the design is not generally a “pattern” on the line, then the design is exactly what you say you read a long history of industrial design million words, but also ultimately gist. Well, this is also a question I often have to answer in teaching in recent years. “No Essence ” is not the history itself, but the understanding of the problem. My understanding is not necessarily smart, for your reference only. In the process of nearly a hundred years from modernism to postmodernism, there have been a myriad of design ideas. However, fine study, are inevitably some biased. Moreover, the combination of all kinds is so complicated.