近年来,在工业设计领域,“形态意味论”(或者叫“产品意味论”)这一新的概念,被发达国家的设计界广为注目,日本也不例外。这一理论的出现及对其深入探讨,把工业设计提高到了一个新的阶段。它与其说是新的设计手法的需要,不如说是反映了一个新时代的认识和思想潮流。 In recent years, in the field of industrial design, the new concept of “modality meaning” (or “product meaning theory”) has drawn great attention from the design community in developed countries and Japan is no exception. The emergence of this theory and its in-depth discussion, the industrial design to a new stage. It is not so much the need of a new design technique as it reflects the awareness and ideological trend of a new era.