Abstract
The purpose of this study was examined how people respond to variations in artistic ready-made products and what key features induce in the design cognition processes. In the competitive environment of consumer products, continuing to create new products is the only way to meet the consumers’ rapidly preference changing. Ready-made might be proving a chance to inspire the creative design concept for developing a new product design. In the experiment, this study first analyzes Ready-made design products to compare differences in form and content. Next, a card sorting experiment with Ready-made product designs as samples is implemented. The reactions of participants are observed using grounded theory analysis. Following the coding process, axial coding can be divided into five characters: 1) selecting components, 2) extracting function, 3) editing technique, 4) forming perception, and 5) interpreting meaning. Finally, taking the selection component as the core category, selective coding is used to address the degree of borrowing of objects and the process of construction.
Highlights
Most of the works created by the Droog of the Netherlands, which are made from scrap heaps (Ramakers, 2006), are typical examples of ready-made design
The result show the completed 55 concepts (48 + 7) from 1416 references, among which 48 effective concepts are classified into 18 sub-categories according to the relevance between the Tree Nodes and classified into the following five major categories in descending order of the number of references: Selecting Components, Extracting Function, Editing Technique, Forming Perception, and Interpreting Meaning
This study examined how people respond to variations in artistic ready-made products and what key features induce in the cognition processes
Summary
Most of the works created by the Droog of the Netherlands, which are made from scrap heaps (Ramakers, 2006), are typical examples of ready-made design. Such works include a long bench made by inserting old chairs back into a Treetrunk (Figure 1) and a chest of drawers composed of drawers that cannot be put on top of each other (Figure 2). These works are fascinating and unbelievable, even confusing, but at the same time trigger warmth. How to cite this paper: Wang, C.-Y.
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