Web Designing: 2014 / 8

2014 / 8 vol.157

1,530 Yen

Features & Special Reports

Feature 1: Coloring the Web through Handiwork

Let’s Make it by Hand! An Idea Book for Sweet and Fun Analogue Design

When designing Web, aren’t you making most of materials digitally? Specifically because Web is a medium viewed through a browser, handmade elements can give it snap. By combining analogue work like arts and crafts with digital processing, this feature introduces various ideas for producing letters, parts, graphics, and backgrounds used for Web design. They are not only useful in productions but make it possible for familiar tools and materials to transform into the source of new designs. A cascade of novel ideas will surely entertain you!

Feature 2: Scientifically Analyzing Well-liked Sites

Diversely Examining the Logic of Building Reputation and a Feeling of Trust

What is a “well-liked site,” in other words, a Website that the user will be interested in following? In this feature, we identify the (well-liked) logic of gaining reputation and trust through various perspectives like psychology and marketing, and think about how to utilize it in Website production.

Do IT with Poland

Warsaw Travel Journal that Explores Poland’s “IT”!

Poland’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has been conducting the project “Do IT With Poland” with the aim of international business collaboration, while disseminating news of its IT business to the world. As part of this project, “IT/ICT Study Tour” was held with journalists invited from across the world. Along with Warsaw travel story, we talk about the relationship between Poland and IT that people are not so familiar with.

Do IT With Poland

Choco Banana Planning Session

Extra Edition: Atsushi of London Boots is Joining Us! “Mens-only Entrepreneur Drinks!”

This second series of Choco Banana, a collaboration project between ventures and Yoshimoto comedians, is again featuring an ‘extra’ edition. This time we make a report on the meeting held among young venture entrepreneurs including TAMURA Atsushi of London Boots #1 #2. Well, it’s probably more like a drinking session….

WD Monthly Archive New!

Website Front-page Renewal!

We Gathered not only Websites but New Digital Contents that Our Editorial Desk Took Notice of, Such as Applications and Signage.

STYLEPIT, arigato Inc., From the World’s Kitchen in Bottle ~Sparkling Water Special Contents~, Jam3, CROACIA AUDIO, HYPER MARKET, Haruhi Hunting - The Hunt For The Memories Lost -, Crazy Faces, Shizukatter, DONGURI Magazine, #THISISJOKER, Distribute!! Seishun Moment, LOOK NEW ADK, Happy Birthday Sushi | Gin no Sara, Evil Is The New Black, PASSENGER, WEB108 ver.KANNON, Shinjo AR

WF Inside Story

Dream Car of the Day_Making Children’s Drawings into Vine’s Loop Animation as Part of Toyota’s Contest Promotion Plan

On Toyota’s campaign site for a children’s drawing contest themed on a dream car, “Toyota Dream Car Art Contest,” which will be held in a total of 75 countries and regions, children’s drawings are made into animation using various techniques of expression and played in a 6-second loop on the platform Vine. Let alone the quality and zest of the drawings, the Website is brilliant in how those immobile images are translated into animation, how the site is presented, SNS development, etc. We asked the members of the marketing company and the ad agency for Toyota about how, and through what kind of process, they decided to employ this particular visual expression.

Dream Car of the Day

Portrait -Web Craftsman's Portrait-

KATO Takuma (SHIFTBRAIN Inc.)_A Job Called a Creator of “Place” that He Found beyond Crisis

SHIFTBRAIN continues to create high-quality Websites. The life of its leading figure KATO Takuma has been full of turns and twists. Despite countless crises and obstacles, he never stopped charging forward at a dead run. Now, at the end of the tunnel, an ideal image for a creator and a business manager seems to have come into his view.

SHIFTBRAIN Inc.

Basis Lecture on JavaScript New!

Let’s Learn Current Display Navigation

Text: KODAIRA Asami, KIMURA Takeya (ENTACL GRAPHICXXX)

Applied Lecture on Flash for HTML5 New!

Let’s Produce Contents by Incorporating Sound

Text: IKEDA Yasunobu (ClockMaker)

Monthly Focus

A Drawing Tool that Comes Handy for UI Design “Sketch 3”

This feature explains the latest version “3” of much-talked-about “Sketch,” a vector drawing tool that ranks with Adobe Illustrator. With the focus on features and expandability, which will come handy for Web production, we look into Sketch 3 in terms of its practical use.

Bohemian Coding - Sketch 3

TSUKURUHITO

YAMAZAKI Toshiyuki (Pencil Sculptor)_My Heart doesn’t Break Even If My Lead Breaks

There might not be that many people who think of creativity when they hear the words “pencil letters.” What if it’s a miniature sculpture carved out of a cylindrical pencil lead, whose diameter is just 3 mm? A pencil sculptor YAMAZAKI Toshiyuki adeptly manipulates a knife and a needle tip to express not only letters but figurative objects like eating utensils and chains on the tip of a pencil. In his recent work, Yamazaki even engraved words on the lead of a mechanical pencil of 0.9mm diameter. In fact, there have been trailblazers of this particular genre in foreign countries. While YAMAZAKI possesses a longing for the origin of the art, he pursues his unique creativity on his own. His oeuvre is replete with the “pleasure of creation” brought forth when a certain expressive method goes beyond an individual and spreads out to a greater realm.