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In 2008~2011, the Ministry of Economic Affairs also focused in the promotion of “Four-year Value-added Plan of Cultivation in Local - Characteristics Industry ", selecting historical, unique, consumptive industry or industry can be developed for the local characteristics of township or district as the subjects of guidance to achieve the goal of “one township, one specialty” by constructing elements of innovation and economic value. It is clearly to see that the local-characteristic industry has become a significant trend in the promotion of local economic development. The visual design of the product packages has been an important means to shape the local specialty; however, with the local resources as the base for development, the industry developed in one area almost is alike with another one. The discourse pertaining to a way to develop a visual-image based package of local specialty with advantages under similar conditions becomes the focus herewith.The sorghum vinegar products from “Chen Kao Food Co., Ltd.” are the design cases herewith. In the deep memory of local industry in Kinmen, "Sorghum Wine" remains to be the exclusive term. How to shape the "Kinmen Sorghum Vinegar” as Kinmen’s another specialty after the sorghum wine and through the combination of local cultural features and visual image for commodity with more local features and to enhance the power in consumption, the planning of visual image for the commodity plays a role which shall not be overlooked. Therefore, through literature review, the Study attempts to discuss and understand the cultural characteristics of Kinmen County; that is, "Earth, Landscape, People, Culture, Product" from excavation of the local specialty and cultural resources, along with the discussions on theories of design patterns behind cultural products to develop strategies of designing the sorghum vinegar products as the local specialty. The design strategy is phased into three: (1) "Association" phase: The collection, classification and sampling of culture in Kinmen is executed prior to the practices of the creative design, followed by a concept of exploring local resource proposed by a scholar, Miyazaki, which dividing data into five classes, Earth, Landscape, People, Culture, Product and further specifying samples of each class by purposive sampling. (2) "Conversion" phase: It is a phase of design, creation and ideas, where three attributes of levels of samples, external level, middle level and internal level, are extracted as the creative design elements. (3) “Specification” phase: It integrates the converted design elements with characteristics of the product for the visual design creation of sorghum vinegar products.
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