Nowaday, we have enough wealth and richness. As accumulating with wealth, we want to buy a merchandise which was matched our taste. That is diversity and specificity.
Because of change of social environment and our value, customers are not constrained...
Nowaday, we have enough wealth and richness. As accumulating with wealth, we want to buy a merchandise which was matched our taste. That is diversity and specificity.
Because of change of social environment and our value, customers are not constrained with fashion and vogue.
It is a new competition factor for customer that glasses are not only eyesight revision, Optical, but also fashion item, Total Fashion. Glasses shall be evolved from seeing to shown.
Korea glasses industry is a labor intensive and very frangible small scale enterprises. This industry is not escaped a cheap price image in international glasses market. International good reputation glasses are a higher value-added business, so Korea glasses industry must improve in international glasses market using famous brands and development of design.
In this study, we approach how a new glasses progress of design development model and direction with the time point of view. We also study the current of the time and glasses industry.
People may be induced that glasses are put on various fashion from time to time.
The purpose of this article is:
For the people who wear eyeglasses, we suggest make them buy more eyeglasses not just one eyeglass for their poor sight to attain multiple eyewear possessing system.
For the people who do not wear eyeglasses, we suggest let them know the eyeglass can improve their image. In addition the eyewear design that is able to be used as a fashion accessory should be improved. Also fashionable eyewear that is adapted to various cloths, places, and times should be proposed.
With the idea that eyeglasses are fashionable accessory, we propose one example of eyewear design process that make people understand eyeglass more efficiently and systematically.
From these points of view, this article was proceeded researches with the following orders and scopes.
Chapter 1 : We explained the purposes of developing eyewear design that are required in the fashioned circumstance and the researching methods in the future
Chapter 2 : In the part of 'Consideration of concepts and transition that the eyewear has', terms and bounds of eyewear was limited. After theoretical aspects and transition of eyewear were considered, It will be recognized that the eyeglass is a fashionable trend not a tool.
Chapter 3 : In the part of 'The developing purpose of eyewear which is obtained by the comprehension of user's interest', based on the recognition that the eyewear is a fashionable accessory, the relation between fashion and eyewear was explained and fashion trend was analyzed. And the aim that eyewear design should be developed for was offered with the example of fashion eyewear.
Chapter 4 : In the part of 'The investigation of eyewear users', a questionnaire survey of women in their twenties was conducted. With this, their lifestyles and the propensity to consume were examined and the favored eyewear styles that were chosen by them were presented. Because purchase of glass was frequently happen by recommendation of optician, a interview of optician was also carried out. The direction of eyewear design was established through investigation of interview and questionnaires.
Chapter 5 : The process for the development of fashion eyewear is settled in the case study. This chapter suggests the fashion eyewear design and study for the women in her 20s, through enough understanding and consideration of fashion eyewear products and customers, environment.
Chapter 6 : This chapter indicates the applicable direction of the research through the case study and validity of this research and suggests necessities of the further study
As remarked above, the research suggests the process for the development of eyewear design and indicate future development direction through the example of design development
For a day of rapid changes, It is the time that the designer propose subjective and reasonable changing direction.
We may preoccupy emerging eyewear market if we integrate fashion trend with development of eyewear design because eyewear is not simple corrective lenes but fashion.