2014 / 6 vol.155
1,530 Yen
Features & Special Reports
Feature 1: Emotional CSS Expressions
Throbbing, Floating, Swirling... Rendering that Communicates Feelings through the Use of Samples
With the addition of numerous properties, the implementation of previously impossible expressions in CSS3 has now become possible. With the use of animation, text effects, and filters, you can expand expressions on multiple devices and communicate your words and feelings. This feature introduces a variety of “communicative” expressions using CSS3 features. All of the samples presented here are simple and have a wide range of applications. With a little bit of creativity, you can make each element for composing your Website more fun and attractive. Why don’t you find expressions that “convey your feelings”?
Feature 2: “Functional Design” ABC
Secrets of Usability Hidden in the Familiar
Making it to the destination smoothly with an easily comprehensible map; Delivering topical news through readable magazines; Cutting down the time for household chores with the use of simply-operable home electronics; There is always an “objective” when a man creates things. And, in order to achieve it, “design” becomes crucial. An important role of design is to provide outstanding “functions” by casting the intended objective into shape simply and elegantly.
Using examples from familiar items, this feature explains methods and theories to convert functions into tangible forms. “Familiar” implies that people are using those items with comfort, and this unconscious sense of comfort with usability is not a product of chance but was created through well-thought-out design.
[Special Project] Color Me Shop Award 2014
Who will Come out on Top among 60,000 Shops at the 10th Anniversary Award!?
“Color Me Shop” is a service GMO Pepabo, Inc. started 10 years ago with the aim to “pursue thrills and spills of creating an Internet shop.” The number of registered shops now exceeds 60,000, and what they sell covers not just clothes and furniture but vegetables and even the knowledge of specialists. For further development of their service, this award will be given this commemorative year. Top of a total of 60,000 shops, the award-winning site, which is not tethered to profits and will continue to attract attention as a charismatic e-commerce site, was covered with creativity that allures users to revisit it.
Choco Banana Planning Session
“Choco Banana Venture Summit” Opening!
“Choco Banana Planning Session,” which began as a “Delicious Encounter between Web Designing and Yoshimoto,” is starting a new project with “venture” as a keyword. Prior to the launch of the project, we held “Choco Banana Venture Summit”! This feature brings you a bit serious (!) “talk” between six much-talked-about entrepreneurs on various topics such as “how to work,” “human resources” and “contents.”
WF Inside Story
Smahorror Theater_The Collaboration with Smartphone that Makes Horror Programs more Scary and Addictive
The TV program “Smahorror Theater” was aired on BS-TBS at midnight of March 31st. It consisted of the making and completion work of a horror movie that two film directors made using two idol groups. What was different from a regular TV show was that they provided the viewer with terror-mounting experience by distributing a special smartphone application and creating collaboration between the program and the application. Why then, did they make such an attempt?
Portrait -Web Craftsman's Portrait-
MURAKAMI Kaie (SIMONE INC.)_Expressive Ideas for Corporate Branding that Pursues “It”
MURAKAMI Kaie is a leading figure of SIMONE INC., the company that specializes in not only Website production but also the branding of fashion-related companies. With the belief that “each client has individuality,” Murakami never relies on templates. Instead, his creations are laden with unswerving ideas regarding expression.
TSUKURUHITO
AKAMATSU Hikozo (Film Title Designer)_Coloring with Letters, Alluring with Letters. Technique that Controls the Breath of a Projected Image
“Title design” is literally a profession that designs film titles. AKAMATSU Hikozo is a foremost figure of film title design. In 1969, Akamatsu stepped into this field to take over the work of his father, who passed away suddenly. Since then, for almost half a century, he has designed titles of widely varying styles for over 400 films. What is it to “convey with letters” the content of a film? Let’s get a glimpse into the arcane world of title design.
What Design Can Do: Dialogue
AKIYAMA Shin × NAGAHARA Yasushi “Exquisite DIY”
This time’s guest is AKIYAMA Shin, a designer who has been working in Niigata Prefecture since the dissolution of schtücco in 2010. Surrounded by the books he designed, we had a lively conversation on his one-of-a-kind workmanship.
BiND7 Guide for the creators
Second Half: Let’s Make an EC Site Using BiND Cart Feature
“BiND for WebLiFE*” is a non-programmed Web authoring software capable of constructing a site with sophisticated design through the use of templates. In the latter half, we focus on the cart feature (BiND cart), which has been offered for free since the release of a new version “7” (BiND7), and delve into the production method for shopping sites using BiND7 as well as their management and operation.
“TORISETSU – Instruction Manuals” Webification Project New!
Volume 1 A New Market for the Web Production Industry “Torisetsu”
The international standards of instruction manuals for various products and services, known in Japan as “torisetsu,” have been revised, and now it became possible to provide them in an electronic data format. What this change entails, however, are obligations and responsibilities that didn’t exist in the world of the Web before. In this serial, we will develop intensive discussions on the webification of instruction manuals.
Monthly Focus
Monthly Focus_Sublime Text [First Half]
“Sublime Text” is a text editor that has recently been disseminated among Web producers across the globe. “Web Designers White Paper 2013-2014” (the second special feature in December 2013 issue) proved that this product garnered support at a rapid rate. In this two-parter, we will give a clear exposition of Sublime Text. The first half is on its brief overview.
Running Stories
Web Designing Lab.
JavaScript Lab._Learning Roll Over from Basics to Applications
Text: KODAIRA Asami / KIMURA Takuya (ENTACL GRAPHICXXX)
Flash Lab._[HTML5 Authoring Edition] Creating a Slideshow with a High Degree of Freedom
Text: IKEDA Yasunobu
movement
(Event & Artist introduction)
Worldwide Creator's Archive
Mirada_What is “Being Timeless”?
WD Website Front
KEI-KO TOKYO LTD., Night Walk In Marseille, 3D on the Rocks, Nissin Foods Group, CYBERTHREAT Real-time map, New Balance Japan | Wellness, EIKOKUYA CO.,LTD. - Official Web Site, and more
[New Author] one's view
“Monster” that Changes the Times
Text: SHIMIZU Qanta (PARTY)
KILLING KENNEDY
“Expeditiously Panoptic” Shape of Today
Text: KITAMURA Ken (BASEMENT FACTORY PRODUCTIONS)
Prismatic
The Specifics of Future, Back-calculated from a Chronological Table
Text: KAWADA Tom New!
Future Time Line
The Intensity of Boldness
Text: SUGANO Kaoru (DENTSU)
Unnumbered Sparks
Tour De Graphique - A Challenge in the Time of One CD -
Vol.15 On-magazine Live Collage Using “Men and Women”
Text&collage: KAWAMURA Kosuke
Ideas for Local Creatives
The Possibilities of “Place” from the Perspective of Site-creating Professionals
Text: SUGA Daisuke (Smart Design Association)
From the Data of Web Designers Report: “The Landscape of this Job”
Old and New Experience
Text: KOIZUMI Shinya
News Crawler
(News)
Mobile Service Front Line
East Japan Railway Company Application_Smartphone Application Project Brings Forth Innovations
Text: NAKAYA Kenichi
The Secrets of Digital Marketing
What You Can Do Creatively with Video Contents
Text: OHTA Kenji
Hagihara Research Institute
The Smartphone Shift that Started Accelerating Domestically
Text: HAGIWARA Masashi
Exonemo’s “Touching the Web”
Vol.32 Serial Borg Series EP.12 “Blaze and Hibernation”
Manga AC Club Activity Daily Log
#37 “Child Raising and Society”
Others
List of Web agencies from all over the country
Monitor & Present
WD Square
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