As overpopulation in modern metropolitan areas is accelerated with rapid economic development and the metropolitan structure-function is diversified and sophisticated, a concern on an urban environment is increasing. Accordingly, proactive efforts are...
As overpopulation in modern metropolitan areas is accelerated with rapid economic development and the metropolitan structure-function is diversified and sophisticated, a concern on an urban environment is increasing. Accordingly, proactive efforts are recently being put to create a pleasant urban environment capable of providing a stable environment and an aesthetic experience.
In the urban environment, a signboard provides information required for social and economic activities and creates a general atmosphere of the metropolitan area. In particular, as a vidual element for forming the urban environment, the color of constituent elements of the signboard controls the atmosphere of the entire urban environment and directly affects creation of aesthetic and pleasant urban scape.
Since a human being in an environment surrounded by the color can obtain more than 80% of information through the sense of sight, the color environment functions as an important element to the human being. This color is an element which can directly stimulate feelings of the human being and remarkably affect psychological stress, feelings or emotion.
However, the signboards in the present metropolitan areas have become a primary factor which lower in quality of the urban environment. Since these jumbled advertisements and signboards in major metropolitan areas including Seoul do not harmonize with environments and lower in quality of the urban environment due to the unsystematic plan in color, the advertisements and signboards have degenerated into environmental pollution giving city dwellers a vidually unpleasant feeling and are largely working on psychologies of the human being.
Therefore, an object of this research is searching how the signboard color of the vidual environmental factor affects citizens psychologically in the urban environment, recognizing the importance of the signboard color in the urban environment by grasping problems in the domestic signboard color by comparing a domestic signboard color status with cases of a foreign signboard color status through analysis of the domestic signboard color status, and suggesting a method for efficiently improving the domestic signboard design color. This research has been progressed as follows.
First, the concept, functions and kinds of the signboard design, the relation of the urban environment and the signboard design, the vidual characteristic of the color, coloration and combination, and a natural color system (NCS) are searched through document analysis as theoretical study on the signboard design and color.
Second, the concept of the urban environmental design, the functions and effects of the environmental color, psychological effects of the environmental color, and a metropolitan color plan are searched as study on effects of the color in the urban environment.
Third, the signboard color environment around Gangnam station, which is a research object, is classified into a transverse-type signboard, a vertical-type signboard, a projection-type signboard, and a poll-type signboard, and is searched and analyzed through the natural color system in order to grasp the domestic signboard color status.
Fourth, the problems of the domestic signboard color are grasped and the method for overcoming the problems is searched by comparatively analyzing the domestic signboard color status through the cases of the foreign signboard design color.
Fifth, the method for overcoming the problems in the domestic signboard color is suggested. A hypothesis is established and the established hypothesis is verified by grasping the effects and problems of the signboard color in the urban environment, executing a survey in order to prepare an objective basis of method for improving the signboard color, and analyzing data acquired through the survey.
The signboard color directly affects creation of the aesthetic and pleasant urban scape and plays an important role in metropolitan characteristic expression. Therefore, an effort for selecting the color which can provide a sense of stability to the citizens in consideration of the harmonious environment as an aesthetic aspect by sufficiently examining and concerning how the color affects the citizens emotionally is required in use of the color, and using the color should be planned in consideration of urban environment. When these conditions are satisfied as described above, it is possible to provide the citizens with pleasure and stability, thereby renovating the vidual environment.