From the perspective of modern design, this article explains the historical origin and inheritance of characteristic elements of regional culture and Fujian and Taiwan folk art in environmental art design. Using the characteristic elements of Fujian and Taiwan folk art in environmental art design, it focuses on borrowing some symbolic element symbols for innovation, infiltrating the design language with regional characteristics into modern design works, and solving the problem with the current development of design globalization, In particular, the growing loss of regional culture and its manifestations has created a high-quality living environment with more regional characteristics and cultural heritage. Respectively from building a teaching reform platform to create an artistic design innovation base for regional culture; Strengthen the organic combination of production and learning and build a practical teaching system of art design that serves the local society; Promoting regional cultural research and establishing unique artistic design research brands will elaborate on the research and practice of artistic design teaching reform based on regional culture in three aspects.