In the 1990's, competition of business was going to the peak because of increasing consumption capability and expansion of market size, the consumer goods market getting to the maturity and production technology generalization. Although many companies...
In the 1990's, competition of business was going to the peak because of increasing consumption capability and expansion of market size, the consumer goods market getting to the maturity and production technology generalization. Although many companies were giving their best shot for their own significant differentiation from their competitors, new products which are like poured down are making an extreme competitive environment where they are getting more resemble to each other.
After the year of 2002, the very-low-cost brand Mishaa coming up, low-cost cosmetics have made a steady growth appealing to young, adolescent people who have a desire of decoration of themselves with fast and trendy product design. In the time, September 2002, MissingYou handcream of EtudeHouse came to be a big issue with mimicking intimate toy forms to its package design. However, though its successful take-off, due to radical increase of benchmarking cases of competitors, now the toy-formed handcream type does not appeal to consumers any more. Enthusiastic consumers also come to feel confuse not knowing significant difference in comparing products and lose their standard of pick-up.
In the cosmetic market, it is very important above all that design obviously establishes a intention of what needs it make consumers have and what behavior it make them do. And inducing a curiosity and satisfaction through providing experience of various sense is an important role of design. Therefore, for improvement of sensational experience of products, which is a core issue on holding superiority in the market, this paper intends to explore some different points about way of visual expression in package design. However, in this study, visual expression doesn't mean only visual aspect. This study focuses on considering an aspect of various sense (like a tactile) in a way of information communication as well as a way relying on visual aspect.
Research subject is 175 people of sample composed of teenager or twenties women who live in Seoul. First, I checked out consumer involvement about handcream in the cosmetic category and investigated demographic factors though survey and purchasing behavior of handcream.
In order to verify preference and intention of purchase, I prepared two types of test objects. One is a print which is general off-set applied, and the other is a thermo-ink added print in which the ink changes its color according to temperature change. I showed these two kinds of test objects to my sample, and then I analysed difference of attitude to the product depending on type of message. I focused on what effect the message have on cognitive reaction,
emotional reaction, and behavioral reaction depending on degree of involvement.
This paper performed statistic data processing using SPSS ver 19.0 and going through data coding of questionnaire items. Significance level is p<0.05.
The result is the followings.
First, while teenager and twenties consumers' involvement to cosmetics is high, a type of handcream is proved as relatively low involvement category.
Second, the color changeable print expression using a thermo-ink makes the consumers get more favorable attitude comparing to the general print expression.
Third, in case that the changed message by temperature of the consumer through contact is informational message, cognitive reaction and emotional reaction have a similar value each other.
Meanwhile, value regarding behavioral reaction shows relatively low level. That means possibility that consumer reaction to informational message induce purchase behavior may be low. Comparing to this case, in case that the changed message is emotional message, the behavioral reaction (like 'I lke to buy' or 'I like to give my friend') value shows high getting a high score regarding attraction and fondness. That means consumer reaction to emotinal message is more directional to purchase behavior.
Fourth, in the analysis of consumer attitude depending on degree of involvement and age, the thermo-inked print message induced generally high consumer attitude on the both of informational and emotional message in the high involvement group. But, there was statistically no significant difference depend on age. The consumer attitude shows high on the both of informational and emotional message. That means differentiation depending on age was not significant.
This paper explored ways of expression focused on sense (of tactile) as a resolution for limitation of existent cosmetics market which has been devoted to visual design. We can say that the expression focused on tactile will sucessfully take its role, that is differentiation strategy of brand, prompting emotion of consumers. Deviating from visual expression, emotional approaches can be a new possibility on differentiation strategy of brand in the daily-more-competitve cosmetics market. By a differentiation strategy of brand package, we should give various tries regarding application of various sense through broad range, and also need to systemically do academical studies.