Modern-day cities, a compound word of global and local, began to encounter and communicate with various regional design cultures, expressing the culture and identity of global cities from the perspective of design brands and images. Due to intensifyin...
Modern-day cities, a compound word of global and local, began to encounter and communicate with various regional design cultures, expressing the culture and identity of global cities from the perspective of design brands and images. Due to intensifying competition among global urban brands, Korea began to recognize that the importance of urban brand identity is competitive after the introduction of the local government system in 1995. Urban branding using Brand Identity designs that utilize characteristics makes the city's image recognized positively, and it leads to local culture and tourism, playing an important role as a result of economic benefits. Many countries around the world and the capital of Korea, Seoul, are constantly developing plans to confirm the importance and necessity of urban branding and build an identity based on urban branding, and are developing various cultural product designs.
Many cities around the world are making great efforts to seek development and establish the identity of a representative city by attempting design contests and citizen-participating city branding. Accordingly, Gunsan City announced a new slogan in 2019, 'Waterlight Hope', but it has not escaped the image of a stagnant city and has not shown positive results in terms of tourism. At this point, Gunsan City needs to establish an urban brand identity in order to establish an active cultural tourism city image in the future. Therefore, the researcher intends to discuss the necessity of strengthening the identity of Gunsan City as the background of this study.
Currently, local governments in Korea are working on regional-specific branding for urban development, but the reality is that in reality, it is only stopped at the production of simple symbols, characters, and slogans, and Gunsan City does not have cultural products using BI. Therefore, this study aims to establish identity and improve the image of a cultural tourism city through the proposal of cultural product design using BI design to establish brand identity in Gunsan City.
Chapter 1, the background and purpose of the study, and the direction of BI design were derived through analysis of previous studies, and data and other literature from previous studies were investigated.
Chapter 2, summarizes the basic concepts of brand identity (BI) design and cultural product design. After analyzing brand identity design and urban brand design and cultural product design in Korea and overseas using it, the evaluation factors of brand identity required for the survey were derived.
Chapter 3, a survey was conducted to understand the direction and preference of design proposals for BI design development.
Chapter 4, the existing brand identity of Gunsan City and the current status, history, culture, and geographical characteristics of Gunsan City were investigated to be referred to in the design. Based on the survey, a specialized image and identity direction of Gunsan City were proposed based on the responses of the survey participants. In addition, cultural products were produced using BI reflecting this.
Chapter 5 describes the differences and expected effects of cultural product design proposals that express the brand identity of Gunsan City.
In this study, the design was carried out by focusing on the design that made use of the "city's features" reflecting the survey results, the geographical elements that encountered the "sea," the identity and geographical characteristics of Gunsan City, and the "port city."
We hope that the design proposal will deliver Gunsan City's symbols, values, and identity to citizens and take pride in it. Based on the survey, we hope that the image of the city can be improved by being reflected in the future brand identity design of Gunsan City, and we hope that Gunsan City will develop into a glocal city through the construction of urban branding.