Henri Lefebvre is one of the most influential social theorists and critics in the 20th century. However, he is almost unknown in the field of design in China. Criticism of daily life , urban sociology and space production theory are the three pillars that constitute Lefebvre's theoretical system. His “criticism of daily life” has changed from philosophical criticism to microscopic sociological criticism, which has epistemological and methodological significance for the study of modern design culture; his sociological criticism of capitalist consumer society has opened a new critical perspective of consumerism for the theoretical study of design criticism; Lefebvre’s “space production” theory takes modern urban space as the research object, which can be regarded as an uncommon theory of design criticism and has paradigm significance for the theoretical construction of design criticism.