What you should know about Design in China?
When you stand in the middle of two design worlds (U.S. and China), everyone is schizophrenic right now. Designers in the U.S. are afraid of losing their jobs to China with a 8:1 pricing difference; whereas China corporations are also worried that the competitive quality of foreign imported products into China are going to wipe out its internal brands.
Being concerned is one thing, but being fear struck and cynical without learning about the facts is far worse. A bi-polar mindset will always lead you to presume a win-lose situation, where the other side is always the wrongdoer, but the truth is when you can see both sides of the coin, things can become much clearer.
For one thing, “CHINA” is ONE BIG word and “DESIGN” is the OTHER BIG word.
Depending on how you slice those two words, we have different answers for you.
In the Top 10 Myths and Truths below, we will decipher the mystic topic about design in China and debunk what you think you already know: