Stationery, considered as a daily tool, is an object, which is cheap, but has
a basic function and it is found near our lives. But with the change in social
and cultural environments, not only the structure of the stationery industry
but personal ...
Stationery, considered as a daily tool, is an object, which is cheap, but has
a basic function and it is found near our lives. But with the change in social
and cultural environments, not only the structure of the stationery industry
but personal values and lifestyles are changing and this is influencing the
concept and the meaning of stationery, too.
Therefore, this study aims to examine the tendency of stationery, which is
considered as an analog symbol and a design objet by analyzing social and
cultural factors, which have brought the change of new business to the
stationery industry. Also, the change in the stationery industry structure was
analyzed, based on the stationery design cases of domestic and overseas
companies, in order to see the changing stationery design environment. On
the basis of these two analyses, this study presented the possibility that
stationery could be used as a medium of design and the implication that the
environment of designer intervention in the stationery development process
might expand.
This implication shows that the change in the meaning and the category of
stationery has caused a variation in properties of stationery design and even
the role of designers has been influenced by it. In conclusion, it is
anticipated that with the reinforcement of trendy properties of stationery,
stationery design would develop into contents design and this would lead to
the expansion of the scope of stationery designer activity.