Web Designing: 2015 / 3

2015 / 3 vol.164

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Features & Special Reports

Feature 1: Established Practices for Owned Media

Learn from Successful Examples and Know-How of 10 LIG-styles

Recently, the needs for “Owned Media” operated by companies have rapidly increased. While there are companies that have succeeded in cultivating fans by having contact with users through contents, the practices for producing these results are no simple matter. Amidst such a backdrop, the Web production company LIG, now popular with its “LIG Blog,” is sharing with us “10 Guidelines for Practices.” Also, we have gathered the secrets of popular owned media practices by companies in this feature as well.

Feature 2: Living Creatively in the Country

It’s not all Mellow and Relaxed, but Life in the Country is Awesome!

Places to work as a creative are not just Tokyo and other big cities. There are various creators who made the move from the city and who were born there. What made them choose to live in the countryside? And how is working there different from working in a metropolis like Tokyo? In this feature we introduce Web creators who live in the country with clear perspective on their own future and life plan.

Choco Banana Planning Session

[Special Report] “A Live Venture until Morning!” at dotFes Fukuoka 2014 (Second Half)_“IRIE from Karateka Makes a Service!?”

Second half of a report on the session “A Live Venture until Morning!” held at dotFes 2014 in Fukuoka. We cover how ICHIOKA, KOBAYASHI, and TSURUOKA all try nibbling on Irie’s proposed “dating Website” idea. Will this idea really be made into business?

Inside Story

MEFILAS_A Surprise Born from the Varied Degrees of Typography and Visual Expressions

The Osaka and Tokyo based production company MEFILAS Inc., known for their digital promotion work, recently renewed their corporate site. Although at first glance the stark white background with text as the main component seems like the minimum design, their use of animation conveys a sense of surprise to the user. In this article we hear from them about the concepts and design of the renewal, as well as implementation methods involved.

MEFILAS Inc.

Portrait -Web Craftsman’s Portrait-

NAKAHARA Hironori (nD)_Work and Life According to One’s Own Style, and Achieving It through Faith in “the Disease of Going Through Puberty”

The home office is in Okayama, they employ workers who surf in Chiba and Kujukuri, and their home-cum-branch office in the capital is where Nakahara Hironori lives life and work to the fullest. What made it possible to enjoy each day of work was faith and the ability to take action, and the fruit of a radical skilling-up that made hard work look easy. Covered in full!

nD inc.

Mobile Service Front Line

emosi_Negative into Positive. Nanapi Presents the Non-language SNS App that “Aims for World Peace”

Text: NAKAYA Kenichi

“emosi” is an app made by nanapi that “Aims for World Peace.” The specification of this app is kind of a mystery: You can only send pictures, videos and sound. You don’t post to your page, but rather you extend a thread as a “reaction” to someone else’s post and communicate through it. In fact, writing it in words doesn’t quite convey their worldview. Why, how, and for whom did they release this unusual app? We close in on the mystery.

emosi

TSUKURUHITO

ARAI Minami (Handwriting Researcher)_Visualizing the Poet’s Breath and Way of Holding a Brush

Visualizing the bodily motions involved in the act of “writing” in its entirety—Arai Minami thoroughly analyzes the handwritten drafts of literati and poets, and as a researcher (creator), she uses wire to recreate how they wrote on the page. Enlarging characters with a magnifying glass, and using pliers, she bends wire to form the same shape as the letters put to page. While the creative process demands down to earth effort and nuanced sense of control, the idea itself is quite daring. How is it that works like this came into being?

ARAI Minami

Basis Lecture on JavaScript

Improving Usability with a Floating Menu

Text: KODAIRA Asami, KIMURA Takeya (ENTACL GRAPHICXXX)

Applied Lecture on Flash for HTML5

Let’s Make an Analog Clock with a Stopwatch

Text: IKEDA Yasunobu (ClockMaker)

Running Stories

movement

(Event & Artist introduction)

Worldwide Creator's Archive

Du Haihang_Passion Over Technique

Du Haihang

WD Monthly Archive

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

homunculus, Kenshi Yonezu official site “REISSUE RECORDS,” SUPER-LOOPER, Door Shibuya, dot by dot, SHISEIDO KIREIRO, Worldtrigger Catchphrase Award, HANATSUBAKI, My Favorite HOKURIKU, Botanical-Drink Sokenbi-Cha, Bunkai-Kei records Hizmi “dendel voile” Release site, NHK Special “NEXT WORLD LIVE,” Cheero Power plus3, EDO TOKYO Museum Special Site, BeoPlay H2, IETANI SHOKKEI KENKYUSHO, Entirely Free Test Read “Kuragehime” “Tokyo Tarareba Musume” New Years Special Site, Honda Design, People ∞ Windows: Everyone is a Protagonist

one's view

Literature and the User Interface
Text: SHIMIZU Qanta (PARTY)
Twindr

Taking a Peek at the Future of Mobile Sites
Text: SAWABE Yoshiaki (1-10 Holdings)
AKQA WINTERLANDS

When Lace is Interwoven into an Organ, How does It Impinge on Cutaneous Sensation?
Text: KAWADA Tom
April Dauscha

Unguarded Charge-free.
Text: SUGANO Kaoru (DENTSU)
The Vanishing Game

SAIHATE Tahi’s “Shikuhack”

Volume 9: SHIty

shikuhack.jp

Monthly Focus

Unity [First Half]_Multi-Platform Compliant 3D Game Engine

Known in the field of application development for its capability to correspond to multiple computers with one source, “Unity” is now about to become a standard development tool in the sphere of Web production. Its newest version “5” will be released soon. With a goal of understanding an entire picture of “Unity” based on the current version, we’ll explain the product in two installments.