A Study of Sportswear Designs Using the Tiger Motif found in Folk Painting

2010; The Korea Society of Costume; Volume: 60; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

2287-7827

Autores

Weol-Kye Kim,

Tópico(s)

Fashion and Cultural Textiles

Resumo

This study�s purpose is to contrive the national brand image, developing sportswear design and related-culture by using tiger which represents Korea used to design sportswear�s logo and design. For the method of study, illustrator CS3 was used to design three vests and three sports shirts for both men and women by characterizing tiger image from Korean folk painting tiger. Tiger appears commonly in paintings, folk tales and literature of Korea since ancient times. It was even used as a mascot of Seoul Olympic on 1988. Many global sports companies choose an animal that represents their brand to advertise such as Lacoste, le coq sportif and musingwear, wolsey. This study could provide example design adapting korean traditional patterns, also expects for culture advertising Korean traditional culture and developing designs of Korean fashion companies.

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