The biggest difference between design and painting (art) is that the design process has no concrete reference object, and the picture image is non-real image. It requires designers to create without foundation or paint without reference object. It is the creative thinking we say at ordinary times. It is more accurate to call it the ability of hypothesis which is the most core basic skill in conceptual design. Then the next key step is to select the depicting methods to realize the hypothesis.

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... is why we spend a lot of time on basic skills training facing models and landscapes in class, but we are still blank when we design. The creative process of visual design is a process turning abstract thinking based on visual thinking into visual creative through scheduled conceptual associations. Logical thinking plays the role of supervisor in the whole creation.