設計是實踐者反思後的具體主張與理解回應，以行動積極地參與文化塑造，展現一種對自我、人類與社會的深切關心以及處理態度。物品作為人們感知的對象，皆有其大小、型態、結構、質量、顏色…等物質特性，透過這些表達文明創造的形式與工具，背後真正要傳遞的是人性、意識、思維、美感及歷史…等等非物質的抽象概念。物質材料當然有其侷限性，但也同時有著豐富的潛力，有待開掘，設計師重新思索及追問材料的物質性，藉助設計不僅突顯其客觀的物理特徵，更豐富其主觀的、深層的、非物質的觀念意義。本文所例舉的產品案例，其實在材料的選用上，雖不致平凡無奇，卻也稱不上多高深的前瞻科技，然而這些設計都顯示出設計師對材料的微妙掌握與適切應用，除了藉以描繪出個人的設計主張外，也在飽和的市場上，創造差異來參與競爭。

Design is, and should also be, the concrete claims and rational responses to the designers' ideas and concepts; it is an active participation of culture forming, a deep concern toward self, humans, and the society alike, and an attitude of how things should be done. Through the outer features of size, format, structure, quality/quantity, color and so on and by way of shaping and tooling, the real messages that each and every designer tries to convey is about humanity, consciousness, thoughts and thinking, beauty and history, and all other immaterial abstracts. While material materials have their limitations, they possess abundant potentials waiting to be explored as well. By re-thinking and inquiring the material's materialization, designers are trying not only to demonstrate the physical characteristics of a particular material objectively but also explore the immaterial concepts within it subjectively.All the products presented in this paper are no more the results of state-of-the-art technology than the presentations of ordinary thinking; nevertheless, all these designs exhibit the subtle handling and proper applications of the material, and this provides an alternative in asserting their beliefs, differentiating themselves from the others, and creating a competitive edge in the market that is already rich in product.