2013 / 7 vol.144
1,470 Yen
Features & Special Reports
Feature 1: Case Study on Touch Device Sites
Learning Smartphone/Tablet Optimization in Real Cases
The days when all the sites are created for PC are over. Now that touch devises like smartphones and tablets are ubiquitous, and the number of users who browse using them is increasing rapidly, how is Website design changing? In this feature, creators explain sites that were produced for touch-device browsing with the perspective of design and direction. Using plenty of real cases, such as responsive Web design and touch device specialized sites, we introduce touch-device site design.
Feature 2: Self Branding of Web Production Companies
Disseminating the ”Flavor” of Your Company’s Site
Being too caught up with the branding of various clients in the production of their own Websites, Web production companies don’t really have time to set their hands to branding themselves. Here we introduce Web production companies’ own distinguishing sites as well as corporations with unique branding strategies. Let’s reconsider self-branding in order for the users to “choose you” from among numerous production companies.
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]: Tracing a 10-year History
YCAM’s 10-year History Reveals a Surprising Connection to Web Designing
Do you know Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, aka YCAM? Don’t underestimate it as merely a provincial art institute. Works created here have been exhibited or performed one after another in the global context. On the eve of “YCAM Re-Marks,” let’s trace YCAM’s achievements by revisiting the body of works they have created.
Yoshimoto × Web Designing “Choco Banana” Planning Session
Choco Banana Fest is Going to be Held!
The decision was finally made to hold “Choco Banana Fest.” However, the content of the event is still a mystery…. Will they perform stand-up comedy at “LUMINE the Yoshimoto”? Or would a magazine-covered talk event be better? The way that the meeting held by our editorial desk, Mr. Sato of Yoshimoto and a TV/radio writer HAYASHIDA Shinichi went has left us with a gut feeling that some outrageous stuff will happen!
Portrait - Web Craftsman’s Portrait -
KAMADA Takashi (spfdesign Inc.)_The Wellspring of “Websites that Strike a Chord”
Art director/designer/programmer KAMADA Takashi contributes to the production of various company Websites including UNIQLO and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Many of you must remember his works like “UNIQLO CALENDAR” and the site for a fashion brand “Theater Products.” What KAMADA aspires for is a “Website that strikes a chord of the user.” What generates the wellspring of his sophisticated way of seeing the world, which is not confined to mere advertisement sites, and “feel-good” usability?
TSUKURUHITO
MIYANAGA Aiko (Artist)_The “Strength” to Keep Changing
MIYANAGA Aiko is an artist, whose solo exhibition at National Museum of Art, Osaka, last year attracted much public attention. Many people might know her ever-changing work made from materials like naphthalene and salt. What perspective does she reflect in creating such a unique body of work? Here is an interview with MIYANAGA at Mizuma Art Gallery, where her solo show “house” is now being held.
WF Inside Story
Playing Catch Using a PC Site and a Smartphone
PR company ‘catchball inc.’ recently launched their public site. Summarizing their past work and award history on the vertically-long site, animation is abundantly used to illustrate image after image like a river bed. The most characteristic among those elements is “Let’s! Catchball,” a section themed after their corporate name which allows the user to play catch using smartphone. They talk about why and how this section came into being.
Come in! Come in! - Shanghai Style Production Site
China-born Web Production Company
This serial features Japanese-affiliated and foreign-affiliated companies in Shanghai. It is rare to have an opportunity to encounter any production companies founded and run by Chinese people in current media. As a result of conducting countless interviews, we finally found a key Web production company started in China and talked to its key figures.
Webfonts Meet BiND6.5 New!
First Half: The “Appeal” of New BiND with Which the User Can Use Web Fonts at Will
“BiND for WebLiFE” is software that enables the Web authoring of HTML5 base without any codes, and its latest version “6.5” has come out. Its most remarkable characteristic is that it makes it possible to create a site using the best-suited font from among a total of 150 Japanese Web fonts. This two-part article explains the Webfont-equipped new BiND.
[Focus On] Changing the Production Environment: Adobe Creative Cloud
From CS to CC. What are Merits? What is an Accounting System Like? Explaining Adobe’s Latest Creative Environment
Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd. held a creative conference “Adobe MAX” from May 6th to 8th, where they announced that they would change the name of their latest creative tool brand to “CC” which stands for Creative Cloud. Here we summarize seven crucial points on CC with close links to the production environment of a number of Web creators.
Running Stories
Web Designing Lab.
CSS Lab._The Map that the Hey Days of Mobile Needs
Text: KASAI Shinpei (Coding Factory)
jQuery Lab._Creating a Gallery Site Fit to Touch-Operation
Text: HAYASHI Yutaka, BEHARU Takayasu
Flash Lab._Improved and Lost Features Using CC
Text: OKI Yoshiya
movement
(Event & Artist introduction)
Worldwide Creator's Archive
Jongmin Kim_Always Ecstatic about “Interactive”
Jongmin Kim is a Korean creator based in New York. He’s currently working as a senior developer at a world’s leading agency Firstborn, while his private work is also remarkable. His portfolio site “Form Follows Function” is reminiscent of NAKAMURA Yugo’s early work “yugop.com.” We interviewed Kim, who claims to be a diehard fan of the interactive.
WD Website Front
Coloured Lines, TAKESHI WATAMURA, 80th Japan Derby Special Site, AMPERGRAM, Kamome Park: Craft Artist UEMURA Miyuki, Seto-uchi Triennale Shodoshima Special Site, and more
one's view
Protagonist Comes Back Late
Text: SHIMIZU Qanta
Google Street View Hyperlapse
The Possibility of “Interactive Film”
Text: NISHIMURA Mariko (Bascule Inc.)
The Build
Don’t Sleep on it and Wait for 8,000 People’s Good Luck
Text: OHBA Shunsuke
PUSH for Ultrabook
Expressing UI in an Orthodox and Minimal Style
Text: NAKAGAWA Naoki (un-T factory)
HERE IS TODAY
Tour De Graphique - A Challenge in the Time of One CD -
Vol.4: On-magazine Live Collage Using “Stones”
Text&collage: KAWAMURA Kosuke
Ideas for Local Creatives
“Underpopulated Province: Shimane” The Prefectural Government’s Effort to Attract Digital Companies
Text: SUGA Daisuke (Smart Design Association)
From the Data of Web Designers Report: "The Landscape of this Job"
“Do You have an Experience in Creating PC Sites”…!?
Text: KOIZUMI Shinya
Introduction to Web analytics for Web Creators
Making Full Use of Heat Map Tool and Behavioral Analysis Tool
Text: OGAWA Taku
Social Seeds
Monitor Device that Digitalizes and Visualizes Bodily Movement “UP”
Text: NOZAWA Tomo (nitenichiryu)
Mobile Service Front Line
kazoc_Transforming Kids’ Activities into Contents: “Maternal Handbook Application”
Text: NAKAYA Kenichi
The Secrets of Digital Marketing
The Success and Sin of Teaser Sites
Text: OHTA Kenji
Hagihara Research Institute
The Most-used Smartphone Application is Indeed LINE
Text: HAGIWARA Masashi
News Crawler
(News)
WD Reviews
[CrazyTalk 7 Pro]
Exonemo’s “Touching the Web”
Vol.21 Serial Borg Series EP.1
Manga AC Club Activity Daily Log
#26 Intentional “Looseness” is Unacceptable
Others
List of Web agencies from all over the country
Monitor & Present
WD Square
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