Annual Design Review of Japanese Society for the Science of Design
Online ISSN : 2188-7772
Print ISSN : 1341-8475
ISSN-L : 1341-8475
Atotorimusuko:Development of rice with job advertisement as its packaging
Satoshi UmedaRyo NakagawaTaiki Kawase
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2018 Volume 23 Issue 1 Pages 1_12-1_15

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Due to the decrease in farming society and the aging population, finding successor of farms have been a social problem. Kiryu city of Gunma prefecture, a major producer of rice, also suffered this problem. To solve this problem, Dentsu, local NPO Kids Valley and the local farmer has come up with a solution; The "Job offer rice" Atotorimusuko.
Atotorimusuko is a product which is composed of rice itself and farming experience. After eating the rice, people who wish to be a successor can take part in planting and reaping.
To express the concept of this product, package of the rice was designed to look like a job advertisement. On its first year after the launch, 10 people who ate the rice applied for the farming experience as successor candidates.
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