The advancing pace of change due to development in communications and technology has led people in today’s modern society to be immersed in stimulating contents and pursue more instant fun and feeling.
However, culture contents that stimulate and s...
The advancing pace of change due to development in communications and technology has led people in today’s modern society to be immersed in stimulating contents and pursue more instant fun and feeling.
However, culture contents that stimulate and satisfy people’s feeling in the midst of fast-changing lifestyle as well as provide a fresh experience are still quite limited.Among the culture contents, the figure industry that developed along with film industry and in particular, the art-toy within the figure industry, which sprung naturally in relation to pop arts, have begun to diversify their routes for character creation, as new forms of media are being established. Art-toys are attracting increasing attention, as art-toys of various characters gained designer’s attention and exhibitions of not only famous toys from big companies but also of designers who designed the art-toy products themselves began opening up. To people in modern society who pursue instant stimulation and satisfaction, the idea of expressing their feelings on something other than paper is quite refreshing. Although the public’s demand for art-toy is estimated to be high, most forms of art-toy that are planned developed until present are catered only to professionals, designers, artists or maniacs.
Therefore, it is the aim of this research to propose a design strategy to popularize art-toys that can satisfy the emotional needs of modern public, and provide a direction for future marketing strategies after series of survey/observation.
The scope of this research is to verify the commercial value of ‘mustoy’, which is a prototype of an art-toy designed for public, and to improve the direction of service and sales marketing related to the design of more popularized art-toys and the enhancement of the drawing experience. Therefore, more specific suggestions on marketing strategies will be proposed later on based on the insight extrapolated from this research.