Furniture industry mainly depends on the design, because the foreign design relies on the unique achievements of the designers of the train routes, methods and systems, they design the training mode and there are a number of ways and channels for the formation of the system, its innovative ideas and Training model is worthy of our consideration.

      First, the cultivation of foreign designers

      1) Design & designer of the train

      Overseas, designers have their own design firm more common. In a firm commissioned to complete the task of designing the same time, designers also have the task of training, university students can design firm to receive training. Young college students participate in the work of the firm in two forms: First, students with master design firm to complete the design task, so that students can be more direct with the designers to get along day and night, a more direct understanding of the great academic point of view, the design and production methods , The growth of the students have more help. Second, students in the Master's Office, under the guidance of the completion of their work, although it is relatively slow, but the firm's designers to give students a greater design space for students to form their own style, the development of independent design capability is Good.

      2) The designers of the plant cultivation

      Design work in factories abroad to go through the material nature of the test, the test processing technology, furniture design and tests of the structure of the test. They pass the test to become a real product. Only knowledge can be learned in the factory, and plant design will give people the unexpected inspiration. Design of people rely on plants, factories as places of learning, work places, as well as the achievements of the places designed to measure the value embodied in place. The factories depend on the product designers, but also to explore product design.

      3) higher professional training

      Higher education is an important furniture design education one of the many international masters are highly educated people in colleges and universities as a professor. They have their own understanding of design as well as the expression, with the most direct means of teaching students. Arts Education Center is designed not only to the educated to understand the history of design but also pay attention to the production process, at the same time pay attention to the cultivation of innovative design. Colleges and universities to cultivate as the main front of the designer should be innovative ideas and creative thinking as the dominant culture.

      4) traditional master each other

      Four Scandinavian furniture design, there are obvious signs of handicrafts, furniture, their lyrical taste very strong human touch. This is because they attached great importance to master pronged approach, to the best of the Nordic arts and crafts are inherited and are reflected in product design. At the same time, master the other arts and crafts also created a master design, the training of young designers, so that the excellent handicraft techniques from generation to generation. As a designer, such as traditional handicrafts will be learning about furniture design is bound to create a great role in inspiring.

      5) The designers of the incentive

      Youth work abroad often hold exhibitions, will be the young designer's latest works on display, on the one hand, consumers or to seek expert advice and comments, but also willing to find co-production plants so as to make the work into a product. Sometimes organizations proposition design contest, after the judges assessed after the awards to outstanding works. These exhibitions, reviews, competitions, awards and were named to the young up-and-coming designers the opportunity to give their support to encourage and cultivate, so many of the modern master of this approach are to be cutting-edge.

      Second, the foreign furniture typical mode of education

      Peng Liang reading teachers on the education article of furniture, furniture that foreign education training model, I think mainly the following aspects:

      1) student-centered, team-work learning

      Specialized foreign furniture is a lot of room under the guidance of a professor of design studio in the form of the system, will each have a relatively independent modules of work, students work independently in their own units to carry out a large number of creative design plan. In addition to the design theory classes, classes in public multi-media audio-visual room, the students are in the studio for workshops and factories in order to design practice-based teaching and training workshops to become the main teaching field. In teaching and training methods of individual artists changed the traditional manual labor practices, the art design with a combination of industrial enterprises, students, teachers and engineers, workers, sales staff combine to create a modern team work. Second grade to fourth grade students at the beginning of professional learning, senior students to participate in wider business community design projects, under the guidance of teachers in the form of group-team, "team" to solve the completion of a different design projects, such Group learning team work, and later became popular in Europe and the United States design institutions of learning.

      2) platform modular curriculum system

      Foreign university courses in the design of the structure of the set, innovation and optimization of very distinctive, from the University first-year design-based courses to university senior design project course has been designed to post-graduate courses have formed a complete set of design Education system.

      In the professional setting, professional diluted, to broaden the basis for the credit system as a leader, with modules for the curriculum framework for financial integration in the Eastern and Western cultures, bilingual education, not only focus on traditional Chinese culture, but also pay attention to the latest scientific and technological knowledge, especially designed to strengthen Practice and train with an integrated innovation capability of local design talent.

      In the course content, the latest science and technology, culture, art, economics, market trends in integrated, so as to architecture, industrial design basis for the design of furniture in the field of research and practice, in addition to focusing on traditional arts and crafts furniture manufacturing outside of Pay more attention to the modern way of life, environmental change and social progress of furniture design, furniture, materials, furniture, crafts and furniture as well as the theory of the impact of functional furniture.

      3) the design and manufacture of both theory and practice

      Furniture design professionals abroad have attached great importance to the design and manufacture of the relationship, with particular emphasis on training students of original furniture design and pay attention to integrating theory with practice, the emphasis on technology and art, tradition and innovation, aesthetics and function together. All the furniture has to go through the design "from the draft manual creative → → proportion of computer-aided design model → physical model to create" a complete system design processes to carry out. A large number of manufacturers in the design process has been ongoing for the ergonomics of the test, the test materials, production processes and to improve the scrutiny of the details of the structure.

      Foreign furniture design of a large number of teachers in school hours is a "one-on-one" counseling and group-discussion and exchange, pay attention to practice, encourage innovation, is heuristic to discuss the style, hands-on duties of teaching methods. High-grade operations are designed with special attention to the community, the actual design issues together. Furniture design and social enterprises linked to the actual design issues, to encourage students to the community. Teachers are also a part-time business and work to form an open education system.

      4) traditional craft skills with both modern high-tech

      Traditional handicraft and modern high-tech co-exist at the same time, the art and design education and science and technology, modern industrial technology closer together, modern design of the systematic module, multi-disciplinary cross-disciplinary nature of the compound. Attaches great importance to information technology in art design in all of professional art and design have a hand in many workshops, craft-oriented skills training at the same time, with the most advanced computer-aided design and computer-aided production equipment, students should not only have free-hand sketch of the model Basic skills, but also can set up the production of paper-based design model, but also be able to master the operation of computer design software. Carry out research in the field of furniture design in addition to practice and focus on the manufacture of traditional arts and crafts furniture, more modern way of life, environmental change and social progress of furniture design, furniture, materials, furniture, crafts and furniture as well as the theory of the impact of functional furniture.

      5) pay attention to the comprehensive level of the school system

      Colleges and universities in the United Kingdom, all professional, all classroom teaching and all levels of education are open to the public for as long as willing to learn, to achieve a certain level of education and a certain level of professional certificates, after university entrance qualification , Can continue to study the formation of formal schooling and vocational education parallel the development of the educational system, can link up between the two.

      Each university and college places emphasis on all levels of school, pay attention to on-the-job training, learning at school and amateur combination of learning, each level has specific requirements and the credit unit's modular curriculum design, progressive layers, to promote Talent to a higher level. At the same time, and very flexible credit system and a certificate, diploma system, students can be reading a year professional certificate to get employment. Can work for some time to come back for further studies, the cycle of cross-learning and work. Higher education abroad of Art and Design in many areas of Art and Design for China's higher education reform and development, as well as China's art and design education system into line with the further internationalization are very good and in the light of reference.

      Third, Chinese furniture design to enhance the education

      Due to historical and cultural fault lines to close the door and the reasons for China's higher education lags behind furniture design, lack of a system of discipline, lack of a high standard of design, development foundation that is fragile and needs in the following aspects of continuous improvement and upgrading.

      1) to enhance the creativity of students

      To inspire students to the full ability to innovate, we must first change the paper, Zhaomaohuahu, behind closed doors, and problems such as lack of cooperation. Furniture design is to create the core of teaching, training and development is a student's imagination and creative thinking, good at thinking of training, know how to scientific principles, with the creation of artistic expression and the ability of inventors, not only to solve the problem of performance techniques, and Is the ability to create, the quality of the theory, cognitive ability, analysis and problem-solving ability, rather than simply learning that art, learning that principle, mechanism, structure or graphics will be able to solve the problem. Sketch and color composition course all students as a means of modeling, rather than allowing students to become the color of skilled drawing, as designers from local artists, it is not only taking into account the elements of style, but also combine the market, cost, Engineering, psychology and sociology, and other factors, a comprehensive range of subjects.

      School education should be the most unique capabilities, according to the different needs of different direction-oriented, at the same time have a balanced development of other capabilities. The invention of the capacity constraints of education is doomed to failure, the class of students is the main task of observation and training, found that the ability of independent development, the ability to invent new things, thinking to enhance the accuracy and clarity. Students should realize that the most suitable for their own materials and activities in order to protect the right to choose the direction of professionals.

      2) the quality of teachers and innovative teaching methods to enhance

      Foreign furniture design at the University of professional teachers generally have the practical experience of the professors or lecturers, and the teacher not only has a wealth of practical experience, most are studying abroad or as a visiting scholar experience.

      Teachers, etc. Mission also doubts. Teachers are constantly faced with the need to develop their own independent personality of the individual, it is important not to teach the students create their own methods, but should allow students to explore the personal habits of the road; not to impose a certain style, but the development of students The ability to think independently. We design the teacher's role here is not Shoubashoujiao master's apprentice, teaching students not to imitate, just to emphasize their own views on students, but to inspire students to think, to teach students to design ways of communication methods to enable students to Innovation to enable students to freedom of thought.

      3) strengthen the practical aspects of teaching

      Professional teachers to form their own design studio or design teacher is constantly updated expertise, to participate in social practice and raise the level of professional teaching methods and an important way. Studio is equipped with furniture and furniture factories practice, practice furniture factory building, furniture making room equipped with the necessary furniture, woodworking machinery, power tools and hand tools, teachers and professionals in the studio, under the guidance of workers, students practice their hands-on curriculum combining the production of furniture. Design students and teachers demanding the production of plant products by the practice, generally simple products in the studio to complete on their own. Out-of-school training base in order to enable students to enter the business early on with business, professional understanding of the nature and content of the work so that students often go to the city of furniture, furniture companies professional student. In order to ensure the training base for leading the industry, with the furniture business enterprises have established cooperative relations with the school as a graduate student internships and short-term summer internship training base. Students through the practice of the industry to enhance understanding and business confidence.

      4) learn from foreign advanced teaching methods

      The foreign furniture design, generally relying on the architectural design of the large platform, with the emphasis on architecture, interior, industry, such as product design and cross-disciplinary integration of traditional craft with modern industrial technology, in particular, pay attention to the ergonomic research, focus "People first" green eco-environmental awareness. In the course of design-oriented art and the organic integration of technology, design theory with equal emphasis on engineering and technology.

      Multi-Module Personalized adapt to the culture and orientation training: Course set up subject-based system of elective courses and professional elective course, the door should have a multi-disciplinary elective courses, students according to their own interests or employment to choose the direction of some of the courses into a variety Of course modules. Elective courses through the combination of qualitative direction, as a result of the realization of human need as a result of teaching and teaching.

      5) a strict and scientific attitude

      The foreign furniture designers in general have been physical, mechanical and engineering school stringent testing, designers, we lack such a rigorous scientific approach. Always "almost" in the psychological cause, and thus affect the quality of design, innovation and impact. We have to strengthen the innovative thinking, it is also necessary to strengthen capacity-building in logical thinking rigorous and scientific research.

      College culture as the main front of the furniture designers, from furniture design education training model to explore further, to emphasize here that the sense of innovation into education, rather than spoon-feeding education, only worse job as a stepping stone like the Vocational education, education, the relationship between the quality of the nation as a whole, furniture design education is the design of innovative furniture products, an important source of talent. On the importance of innovative thinking of students inspired students to explore the basic cognitive skills and methodology to guide and train the students hands-on design and the ability to practice as well as the collaboration of the most important is the team spirit. At the same time, teachers have to step up their own quality, it is necessary to keep pace with cutting-edge design, but also attaches great importance to strengthen the capacity of teachers in practice. Re-education of designers working in education is also worthy of attention.