2013 / 2 vol.139
1,470 Yen
Features & Special Reports
Feature 1: How to Think about Touch Device Compliance
Successful Examples of Smartphone and Tablet Optimization that Go beyond Responsiveness
A wide variety of touch devices, including smartphones and various tablets, has gained momentum of late. Now that we’ve entered the age of touch devices, which are more accessible than PC and more intuitive than mouse operation, how are Website designs changing? It might be necessary for creators to acquire a new perspective on things like the diversification of screen resolution and the prioritization of certain information to display. Through Websites that are designed with various devices in mind, we’ll take a moment and think about ways to keep pace with this change.
Feature 2: GIF Animation Reboot
Why Now, Why Again? GIF Animation Movement Reader for Designers
Widely used online image format “GIF” is attracting huge attention again. An engine for this phenomenon is GIF’s expansion, that is, GIF animation. Why now is GIF animation flourishing? It’s not because of nostalgia. It’s an aspect that GIF animation has that neither JPEG nor PNG has. We celebrate the rebirth of GIF animation in this feature!
The Secrets of Digital Marketing New!
31% of Online Ads is Wasteful?
Text: OHTA Kenji
This is a new serial that focuses on internationally-talked-about themes on digital marketing. Based on things that Web producers should know and viewpoints that Web creators should grasp, we will take a close look at topics that are becoming big abroad but not in Japan yet.
[Special Project] Workings and Mechanism of Installation Work
This is How Works that Showcased dotFes Sendai were Created
A school festival for Web creatives “dotFes” has garnered recognition as a site to display original installation works. Web creators take months of a trial and error period to make those works as their autonomous projects for this one-day event. Through 4 original installation pieces, which were exhibited at dotFes Sendai, we will take a look into the workings and backstage of the event.
Yoshimoto × Web Designing “Choco Banana” Planning Session
Choco Banana New Year’s Meeting
To mark the beginning of 2013, we took a break from our usual collaboration project and held a New Year’s meeting instead. Attendees consisted of 2 Web Designing editors, 1 Yoshimoto member and a writer. Looking back the year 2012 and delineating an outlook for this year, the meeting got more animated than anyone expected….
Portrait - Web Craftsman’s Portrait -
KIDO Masayuki_The World, Story and Fetishism: All the Expressions are Measures to Present Myself
KIDO Masayuki creates interactive work with his innovative ideas, expressive faculty, and technical wizardry to implement such elements. It’s not too much to say that all of his creations knocked in a wedge on the Web scene. Through an extensive interview with the artist, whose true figure has been veiled, we closed in on his way of being and how he brings forth the world of his own.
TSUKURUHITO
TANIJIRI Makoto (Architect)_“Our” Architecture
The world of architecture has numerous rules. Not only physical criteria like material and structure but other restrictions, including law and budget, can be found in every corner. In such an environment, Tanijiri Makoto is a unique architect, who ravels that rigidity, speaks of architecture with our language and sees it in the same way that we do.
What Design can Do: Dialogue
KISHIMOTO Tomoko×NAGAHARA Yasuhito “Extraordinary Thing Called ‘Eating’”
This time’s guest is KISHIMOTO Tomoko, who changed her career from a graphic designer to a food coordinator. Dishes that she creates are infused with designer’s inspiration. With colorful and tasty food before our eyes, KISHIMOTO and we talked about “food design” from various perspectives.
Mobile Service Front Line
MONIPLA FIND!_020 Campaign Service that Closes the Gap between Corporate and Citizens
Text: NAKAYA Kenichi
We renewed this feature big and put a slightly new title. The reason behind this is our conclusion that mobile devices like smartphones provide the user not only with mere “contents” but also “service,” consisting of multiple aspects. This time, we introduce “MONIPLA FIND!” that provides features as a platform of “campaign service.”
Running Stories
Web Designing Lab.
CSS Lab._Utilizing overflow:hidden in Various Scenes
Text: KASAI Shinpei (Coding Factory)
jQuery Lab._Displaying Background Image on Entire Window
Text: HAYASHI Yutaka, OOTA Tomoaki, HAYASE Yuka
Flash Lab._Useful Tool to Read External Files ”BulkLoader”
Text: OKI Yoshiya
movement
(Event & Artist introduction)
Worldwide Creator's Archive
AKQA_“Consciousness for 365 Days” Brings Forth Innovation
WD Website Front
AI ADVERTISING, NINE, MEDIAS PENTAGON | Tokui Yoshimi Release Plan, mishmash*up by mishmash*, N-ONE CRAFT SHOW!, Tokyo Travel, FaltyDL, MUJI HOME MADE, and more
[New Author] one's view
It’s all Good if the Punch Line is Good
Text: SHIMIZU Qanta
JAM with Chrome Introduction Movie
Karma
A Method to Link Situation and Purchase
Text: OYAMADA Sachiko
Get Winter Ready
That Night, I Saw a Shooting Star New!
Text: OHBA Shunsuke
100,000 Stars
Web Love Matter Consultation as Pop Culture
Text: HAYASHI Tomohiko (nuuo)
He Texted
Making a Mark on a Ruler
(Tota Hasegawa Visual Essay from "tomato interactive")
Text & Visual: HASEGAWA Tota
From the Data of Web Designers Report: "The Landscape of this Job"
What are the Secret Ingredients for Career Progression?
Social Seeds
User-friendly Car Dispatch Service Using Smartphone Application
Text: NOZAWA Tomo (nitenichiryu)
News Crawler
(News)
WD Reviews
[BiND for WebLiFE* 6]
Hagihara Research Institute
Finally Started Smartphone’s Audience Measurement
Text: HAGIWARA Masashi
Exonemo’s “Touching the Web”
Vol.16 Serial BOT Project Vol.4 “Markov Chain”
This is the 4th part of Exonemo BOT development, which strives to realize a complete automatization of serial writing. This time, we finally tested the writing of the article using an algorithm called Markov Chain. How did the article turn out? Was it interesting?
Manga AC Club Activity Daily Log
#21 “Mayans are Gone. New Year’s Cards have Come.”
AC Club smashed the menace of Mayans. However, there’s yet another menace...in other words, creators’ major project, the designing of New Year’s cards. AC Club will provide their magic formula.
Others
List of Web agencies from all over the country
Monitor & Present
WD Square
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