• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.109-116
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• 2024

Recently, with the development of science and technology, various products using cutting-edge technology are being released in the human care service field. A wind of change is blowing in the field of psychological counseling, which traditionally provided services mainly through face-to-face contact in counseling rooms to help clients grow, and in the field of education, which emphasized real-time interaction of human to human. In particular, as the demand for non-face-to-face contact increases due to COVID-19, the need for counseling and educational media using internet-based applications has emerged. This study introduced the ImageTail app developed for psychological counseling and education. The design, function, and implementation process of the Imagetail app were analyzed, and the suitability of the Imagetail app as a psychological counseling medium was confirmed during the Imagetail counseling stage, which create of images and stories, and the before and after stages. Lastly, by analyzing cases in which the ImageTail app was used for psychological counseling and education, the usefulness and usability of the ImageTail app as a medium to understand human inner psychology and support growth and development was explored.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.31 no.5 s.164
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• pp.777-787
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to consider various characteristics in the graffiti-look in the modem fashion by interpreting meanings and properties of graffiti, transferred from street art to a new main stream in art. The scope of this study is limited to works from the 1990s to the present, and the materials for the literatures and exploratory study are fashion-related portfolios and the domestic and foreign fashion magazines. The first characteristic is satire. The graffiti-look conveys directly or indirectly with phrase or symbol various messages of politics, social ideology, wealth and poverty, environmental pollution, anti-war, etc. Body is even more used for graffitiand designers express freely their identity or ideology through the formative style of graffiti. The second characteristic is pleasure. Fantastic expressions from a fairy-tale or fable in the graffiti-look give humor meaning freedom and sense of liberation in a sense of catharsis to the modem people's emotion. The graffiti-look uses graffiti works to introduce its original message of humanism, happiness, humor, etc. to clothing; as a result, the graffiti-look features pleasure. The third characteristic iscommercial application. Brand logo designed by graffiti style is decorated with clothing, accessory, or ornament. This may not only emphasize brand name through lingual function of graffiti, but also be used for a distinctive marketing strategy against other brands. Logo which is regarded motive or pattern of design leaves a image instead of a meaning and performs a design function stressing formative sense.