At present, the environment art design develops quickly, and its applicability expands. Based on our teaching experience, we analyzed students’ questions and difficulties in environment art design, such as the limitation of design thought and mistakes of design method. In that case, we carried out the teaching reform. We introduced projects to the design curriculum for the intermediate grade students. It can connect the education and the market, and let the students participate in the project earlier. To improve students design ability, we focused on the study of investigation and other study methods to establish students’ integral thinking mode and strengthen their basic skills.