Web Designing: 2013 / 8

2013 / 8 vol.145

1,470 Yen

Features & Special Reports

Feature 1: Tumblr ABCs

Learning Key Points of Customization Using WD’s Original Themes

As neither a blog nor SNS, Tumblr is gradually establishing itself as an original platform. One of its biggest appeals is the great freedom of customization. While customization could be “cumbersome,” such as having execute changes via a “theme” file, there’s “nothing you can’t do” if you utilize it properly. This feature provides original themes to serve as a base for Tumblr customization and explains key points for each theme. We also go behind the scenes of excellent case examples that prove the infinite possibilities of Tumblr. There is no reason not to start using Tumblr!

Feature 2: Workplaces that Stimulate Creatives

From a special Creator’s Office to Co-working Space that Links the World

Independent, freelance, nomad workers…. Now that the diversification of work styles is attracting attention, the workplace also needs diversifying: A renovated factory that THAT person uses as his worksite; the work of creating an arena for budding Web creators; a space that generates new work by linking to others. Ideas that shock the world come into being through workplaces that stimulate creatives.

Yoshimoto × Web Designing “Choco Banana” Planning Session

[Special Edition] Open! “Shorakuko,” a School where Students can Laugh, Have Fun, and Learn

This fall, Yoshimoto Kogyo and Tokyo Gakugei University Childrens Institute for the Future are opening “Shorakuko,” a school where children can laugh, have lots of fun, and learn. At the opening event “Shorakuko presents SUMMER SMILE SCHOOL!,” Choco Banana’s regular creators will exhibited installations. This “special edition” reports on this new school!

Choco Banana Project
Up-close blog

What Design can Do: Dialogue

NAKAGAKI Nobuo × NAGAHARA Yasuhito_Deciphering the Connection between Things and Society

Following the June issue, graphic designer NAKAGAKI Nobuo joined us again for this feature. As taking a look back at his work from the 1970s and 1980s, Nakagaki shared with us his insight into the past and present of info graphics and the roles of design.

NAKAGAKI Design Office

[Focus On] Tones and Manners of iOS 7 that You can Master in 10 Minutes

What is Necessary Essence for Designing Renewed Next Generation iOS Design?

The latest iOS version “iOS 7” is being launched this fall. What characteristics does the radically revamped user interface have? What are the notes of caution upon developing and designing applications? We delve into the design concepts of iOS 7.

Webfonts A Go-Go New!

Part 1: Cool Text Expression Using Japanese Fonts by Installing “FONTPLUS”

In the past, Website texts were written by specifying CSS using only a small number of device fonts. With the emergence of “Web Fonts” with which the user can display arbitrary fonts on Website, the possibility of expression has expanded radically. There has long been a lack of support for Japanese fonts, for there is common concern about their huge data volume due to a great number of characters. Meanwhile, as a result of the participation of notable font benders and the improvement of technology and environment, people started to install them in earnest. Using sites that installed “FONTPLUS” as examples, this article explains how fonts influence design and how they should be implemented.

Webfonts A Go-Go Special Site

TSUKURUHITO

FUJIWARA Dai (Creative Director/Designer)_“Color” that Speaks Forever

“Color hunting” is fieldwork aimed at design that a designer Fujiwara Dai created. What you begin to see by bringing yourself to a field site and ‘harvesting’ using your own hands are unique characteristics and strength that colors innately possess. With color hunting as a point of departure, Fujiwara has cast a wide array of projects into shape. We visited Fujiwara at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT where his retrospective exhibition “COLOR-HUNTING” was held.

COLOR-HUNTING

WF Inside Story

DONGURI’s Corporate Site that Managed to Strike a Balance between High-quality Design and Business Appeal

DONGURI, which engages in a wide spectrum of design from Web to paper materials to furniture and fixtures, performed a major renewal of their corporate site. While bringing the fact that they are “art direction company” to the fore, and conveying their keen business sense, the site also achieved high-quality design using sophisticated illustrations and animation. We asked the key creators why they produced such a fastidious site?

Art Direction Company DONGURI

Running Stories

Web Designing Lab.

CSS Lab._Responsive Web Design ABC
Text: KASAI Shinpei (Coding Factory)

jQuery Lab._Making Animated Graphs
Text: HAYASHI Yutaka, BEHARU Takayasu

Flash Lab._Efficient Mobile AIR Development
Text: IKEDA Yasunobu

movement

(Event & Artist introduction)

Worldwide Creator's Archive

Jongmin Kim_Always Ecstatic about “Interactive”

UNIT9＿Wisdom to Transcend the Nation Called ‘Scoping Phase’

UNIT9

WD Website Front

Experience the new HTC ONE, SHIMA Kosaku Application’s Promotion Site, EVANGELION × Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Card, KISHI Waro + K.ASSOCIATES / Architects, Electrolux Play! The quietest suction power, and more