• Archives of design research
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• v.18 no.1 s.59
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• pp.157-166
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• 2005

The purpose of the study is to understand the symbolic meaning of jewelry. Among various characteristics of symbols, the symbolic meaning represents the correlation between meanings. Wearing jewelry is an instinctive action that can be witnessed from ancient civilizations. Man used jewelry for various purposes, as an ornament, an amulet, a symbol of wealth or power or as a token of love. In this study, I have researched the symbolic meaning of jewelry in its historic background focusing on rings that show the strongest symbolic characteristic among jewelries. Whereas the symbolic meaning of jewelry was strongly accentuated in the ancient and medieval times, it was gradually weakened in the modern time. Also, while jewelry in the ancient and medieval times showed commonness and universality, jewelry in modern time expressed individuality. Although the meaning of jewelry changed progressively by interacting with the external environment, jewelry has always roused sense and symbolism from our hearts and has acted as a means to express ideas and emotions of human beings.

• Proceedings of the SOHE Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.78-78
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 교통경찰의 다양한 활동 속에 교통 경찰제복은 경찰의 활동성과 함께 대외적으로 경찰의 자긍심과 품위의 고취가 필요하며 또한 능동적이고 기능적이면서도 환경에 어울리는 시각적 세련미와 함께 한국의 차별화 된 상징적인 이미지가 나타나야 한다. 이 중 가장 활동성이 많은 남자 교통경찰복을 선택하여 현재 광주지역의 20∼50세의 교통경찰을 대상으로 설문지법에 의해 교통경찰 제복의 착용 만족도와 디자인만족도 등을 조사하고 이를 아이템별, 연령별 등으로 비교 분석하고 수집된 자료를 토대로 한국교통경찰 제복디자인을 제시하고자 하였다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.653-667
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• 2008

Despite of the importance of design, relatively little research has been conducted on consumers' behavioral responses to product design and especially, the empirical studies which are related to consumers' psychological responses to product design. Understanding of the relationship between the response to product design and brand image or brand equity is limited. This research investigated the effect of the design image which can be formed by the response to product design on brand image and equity in two kinds of product types (utilitarian and symbolic product). The result shows that the product design image has a strong effect on the brand image in both products. Design image of the product influences brand equity in the symbolic product. However, there was no significant effect of the product design image on brand equity in the utilitarian product. In addition, the research found that brand image has a strong effect on brand equity in both products.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.88-89
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• 2000

대중문화의 용어는 독일어로서 '마스'(Uass)와 '쿨투어'(Kultur)의 복합어이다. '마스', '마센'(복수: 많은 정도를 의미함)이란 유럽사회에서 비귀족적이고 교육을 받지 못한 계층으로, 오늘날 중하 이하 계충의 사람들을 칭하는 말이다. '쿨투어'(문화라는 의미)는 영어의 '하이 컬처(high cultur) 즉 고급문화'로서 유럽사회의 교육을 잘 받은 엘리트 계층이 수용하는 미술, 음악, 문학 등과 상징적 산물인 건축의 실내외 장식, 조경 등을 가리킬 뿐만 아니라 이러한 문화예술의 애호가들인 교양인, 지식인의 감정이나 사고의 유형 등까지도 포함하는 말이다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.68-70
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 변화를 이끄는 디자인의 요소인 문화의 상징성을 바탕으로, 문화가 디자인에 질적 향상을 위해 새롭게 노력해야 하는 문제를 바탕으로 논의 하였다. 특히 빠르게 변화되고 있는 사회적 현상을 파악하고, 변화된 문화적 요소에 대하여 논하고자 한다.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.243-251
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• 2012

Theatricals have been with human's history for a long time. And It is also receiving a lot of love in modern times. The stage is recognized another space of time by spectators during the play and the production actualize fictional world by using all destination things on the stage. Therefore, the design of the stage has symbolism and the production needs semiological. The Elements expressed through the stage is composed of stage equipment, costume, lighting, stage effects and the production needs light, sound and costume designers, a stage manager, grips an advertising director for the play. The study analysis on symbolic image on the view of semigical with focused on "Vishnvovvi sad" of Anton Chekhov. The details of the study are symbolism of stage effect and costume, lighting, stage equipment. Furthermore, The study analyze way to symbolic Express korean characteristics and This research is an excellent source for students who are studying the semilogical analysis of stage.

• Archives of design research
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.399-408
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• 2002

According to the improvement in quality of life and the progress of user's taste in this modern society, people great deal with the symbolic meaning of product which express user's self-concept(image). Therefore, this kind of information of users' image is needed to deal importantly for the product design development processes, particularly, the early stage of design development such as the concept design development stage. But, there is not much analysis tools which deal qualitative data of users for the design development. From this reason, the supply of information of user's image through the development of verbal analysis method of user's self-concept will help a designer. For this purpose, this study not only developed the twenty-one factors in order to evaluate user's self-concept, but also suggested that the new approach method that can classify user's group within the same characteristic of user's image using the twenty-one developed verbal measurement items with tools of statistical analysis for the design direction of product. The developed this verbal analysis tool was testified through the case study in this research work.

• Archives of design research
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.267-276
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• 2003

In these days, each local administrative organizations and residents have made constant efforts to achieve unique regional identity and its publicity as a strategy for 'Place Marketing'. Developing a proper symbolic regional theme for the area can bring the economic and cultural vitality to the local areas. The purpose of this study is to investigate and to analyze the contents of theme and expression methods of local theme museums of Japan for last 20years. The types of regional themes appeared as 'Physical' part like topography/ecology, relics and manmade facilities, and 'Social ＆ Cultural' part like industry, culture, people or historic events. The cases of expression methods such as Representation, Metaphor, Symbol and Metonymy could be also found. There was an increasing tendency applying and expressing the symbolic regional theme more impressively as the time passed.

• Archives of design research
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• v.20
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• pp.75-85
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• 1997

After the second world war the vulgar functionalism, which was called as the international style, was developed in the interest of the post capitalistic society. The vulgar functionalism reflected only inhuman commercialism and brought to psycho-mental and social problems. By the result in the mid-sixties the criticism movement of the functionalism had began as a king of the 68-movement in the german architecture and design scene. And it went on in the seventies, and had a decisive influence on the forming of the extended functionalism. The extended functionalism is bases on the definition of functions in the using process of the mass production and consumption society. Those functions, viz. Practical Function, Theoretical Function, Ecological Function, (formal-) Aesthetical Function, Indicating Function, Symbolical Function, have been the core criteria in the analysis and developing phase of the todays' german design scene.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.31 no.6 s.165
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• pp.985-996
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to analyze the symbolism of traditional Korean patterns which reflect an emotional cultural background of Korean people, to apply modernized and developed patterns to Textile Design for fashion cultural products, and to explore productive direction of developing designs of fashion cultural products. The process of developing Textile Design of fashion cultural products which applied symbolism of traditional Korean patterns was conducted as follows. Firstly, based on '05 S/S-'07 S/S fashion trends, a design concept wat decided(man-urban ethnic style, woman-romantic ethnic style). Secondly, motive was abstracted from selected traditional patterns to develop into modem patterns. Thirdly, items were selected according to symbolic meaning of traditional Korean patterns. Man's items included shirts, necktie, and handkerchief which were highly preferred by Korean and foreign visitors. Finally, developed textile designs were diagrammed by item using textile CAD and an illustrator 10 and presented as images. The following results were obtained. First, textile designs for fashion cultural products, in which apply traditional patterns may reflect the understanding of traditional aesthetic beauty and philosophical approach by applying symbolic significance inherent in patterns as well as the aesthetics of the patterns. Second, traditional patterns have been recognized as old fashioned to consumers because they have been often used for traditional handicrafts or folk products. If their unique shapes are changed or simplified, emphasizing images, and trend styles and colors are used, they will be recreated as a modem design. Third, textile designs using traditional patterns may provide various images and visual effects according to techniques and production methods. Then, the method will be applied to many items. Finally, since traditional patterns in fashion cultural products can be used as our unique design elements, they can be utilized as the source of design inspiration for the development of value-added products.