2014 / 7 vol.156
1,530 Yen
Features & Special Reports
Feature 1: The Pictorial Parts-Book of International Sites
From Maps to Scroll Navigation of HTML5 Era!
While there are numerous “highlights” regarding Web design, ranging from well-thought-out UI, jaw-dropping rendering, to expressions using the latest technologies, what we have to remind ourselves is that trivial ideas and twists decide the impression of a site as a whole. As a user, you might often get attracted to a tidbit of designs with sentiments like “This menu looks interesting!” and “I didn’t know that such a Favicon existed….” This feature carefully selects sensitive expressions that contributed to the designs of various overseas sites with the focus on each component that constructed the sites. If you are agonizing over the lack of satisfying designs, we recommend that you flip these pages right in front of you. It will surely give you a sudden flash of insight.
Feature 2: Clever Ways to Use Your Qualifications
For the Improvement of Skills and Career Advancement as well as Employee Training and Study Groups
A surprising number of qualifications relating to Web production are available out there. Some are designed for Web designers, directors or producers, while others are targeted to beginners or the more experienced. Others include exams for technicians, more business-oriented tests, and even national qualifications to certify Web skills. Such a wide range of qualifications gives not only you but also your work partners and freshmen in this industry opportunities to take exams that suit everyone’s respective level. Why don’t you utilize qualifications that serve for you to achieve your own goals such as career advancement, the establishment of personal quality, the training of your employees, etc.?
[Focus On] How to Become a Trusted Creative Director for Clients
Five Branding Methods that KAWAKAMI Shun of artless Reveals
On May 11th, the lecture and workshop by Kawakami Shun of artless were held at “Tokyo Designplex Institute,” whose purpose is to foster professional designers and content creators. What Kawakami emphasized at the event were five methods that he practices in the branding of various companies. This feature delves into how, and with what kind of process, this top creator generates ideas and how he makes them produce fruits.
Choco Banana Planning Session
Extra Edition: Yoshimoto Sato’s “Silicon Valley Exploration Journal!”
This installment celebrates the start of the second series of Choco Banana, a collaboration project between ventures and Yoshimoto comedians. While we initially planned to introduce a new collaboration, we decided to begin the new series as an extra edition out of the blue. We make a report on Yoshimoto Sato, who unexpectedly visited Silicon Valley, San Francisco. We’re not quite sure why the report is illustrated though….
WF Inside Story
HAKUHODO i-studio New-Graduates Recruit Site_Unpredictable Expression with the Active Use of GIF Animation that Attracted the Minds of Job-hunting Students
HAKUHODO i-studio, a digital creative production company, released their 2015 new-graduates recruit site. Using GIF animation to the full extent, it’s composed of designs rather unusual for a corporate recruit site. With the theme of “Future, Unpredictable,” it was produced with an emphasis on concepts and playfulness more than practicality and usability. As a result, the site garnered more entries and applications than the previous year. We talked to the production team with the aim of closing in on the charismatic characteristics of the site, which captured the minds of students who were looking for jobs.
Portrait -Web Craftsman's Portrait-
ABE Yosuke (tha ltd.)_Web, Video, Magazine… The Axis of Multifaceted Creative
This time, we focus on Abe Yosuke, who is active in multiple fields as a Web designer, video artist and art director for paper mediums. However, he considers each of his professions merely as methods of expression he explores. What lies at the core of Abe’s work never changes. What makes the core of his expression then?
SAIHATE Tahi’s “Shikuhack” New!
Volume 1: “My Poetry”
This is the start of the serial where a poet Saihate Tahi flounders around and “hacks” poetry through the use of Web technology.
Time for Craft Making New!
Let’s Take Panoramic Photos Using Galileo
This new serial takes up gadgets and applications, which will set the trend, and by using them attempts to create original contents and applications. This first installation takes a shot at automatically producing panoramic photos using “Galileo,” an “automatic camera platform” that is capable of taking photos and videos by making a smartphone do a three-sixty.
[Special] TSUKURUHITO & Tour De Graphique
KAWAMURA Kosuke (Collage Artist)_Unconscious Creativity behind the Aesthetics of “Cut and Paste”
This is a special edition featuring KAWAMURA Kosuke, a familiar face from one of the serials of this magazine “Tour De Graphique!” We close in on this exceptional talent who taught himself by thrusting into the jungle of collage expression and, while advancing forward on his own path, has collaborated numerous times with figures like TANAAMI Keiichi and Otomo Katsuhiro. In the era when everyone familiarized her/himself with the computer, the act of cut and paste is somewhat casual and useful, and even apt to have its own frivolous impression (exemplified by “copy and paste culture”). However, Kawamura’s work proves the fact that there is a creator who invokes creativity that dwells in the depth of the act.
Running Stories
Web Designing Lab.
JavaScript Lab._Let’s Create Rotation Banners
Text: KODAIRA Asami / KIMURA Takuya (ENTACL GRAPHICXXX)
Flash Lab._[HTML5 Authoring Edition] Let’s Make a Watch that Interfaces with Animation
Text: OKI Yoshiya
movement
(Event & Artist introduction)
Worldwide Creator's Archive
BETC_Delivering to Each and Every “You”
WD Website Front
Lunar Dream Messenger, Active Theory, Ora2 Stain Battlen, SAITO kenji, Letters Inc., Coconoe Co. Ltd., ARCHETYPE, Space Bros Exhibition, and more
one's view
The Crystalline Body of “For Some Reason”
Text: SHIMIZU Qanta (PARTY)
Conductar: Moogfest
Design in Harmony with Time
Text: KITAMURA Ken (BASEMENT FACTORY PRODUCTIONS)
DesignCouncil
Coming Up With Items from the Windows’ Error Screen
Text: KAWADA Tom
chloma 2014-15 A/W collection“ Virtual Showroom”
Where does Poison Exist?
Text: SUGANO Kaoru (DENTSU)
Stop Webcam Child Sex Tourism!
Monthly Focus
Text Editor “Sublime Text” [Second Half]
Ideas for Local Creatives
Crossing Manufacturing DNA with IT to Create a Base for Entrepreneur Creatives
Text: SUGA Daisuke (Smart Design Association)
From the Data of Web Designers Report: “The Landscape of this Job”
If Time Changes, Will Ambition Change, too!?
Text: KOIZUMI Shinya
News Crawler
(News)
Mobile Service Front Line
bento.jp_Smartphone Application-Driven Value Creation that Supports the Blue Ocean Strategy
Text: NAKAYA Kenichi
“TORISETSU - Instruction Manuals” Webification Project
Volume 2: Exploring the Agendas Surrounding Web Instruction Manuals
Text: MIYASHITA Tomoki
The Secrets of Digital Marketing
Blah-blah-blah Marketing!?
Text: OHTA Kenji
Hagihara Research Institute
The Shift in TV Programs from Recording to Streaming
Text: HAGIWARA Masashi
Exonemo’s “Touching the Web”
Vol.33 Serial Borg Series EP.13 “Automatic Drive”
Manga AC Club Activity Daily Log
#38 “A Talk on Money”
Others
List of Web agencies from all over the country
Monitor & Present
WD Square
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