I have read a book called glimmer. The book tells how much designers make social contributions. Because we are always thinking and we are sensitive to anything that is not working well. After I finished this book I thought of the public transportation in my city that I had been relying on for the last [...]
From my daily blog reading, I read the article “What’s Next Web Design?” I think one of many reasons that Wii and iPhone are getting market is not only they have got “What their customers needs” but also “they are making offers, we cannot refuse.” Of course, it’s simple enough and easy to get what [...]
The designer tries to conceptualize an assignment. The concept is the designer’s ideas with perceived images for prospective viewers. That concept becomes the basis for visual communication. The designer constructs a visual, utilizing materials and concepts using their design skills. Design is a moving subject. It always changes direction with changes in cultures, technologies, economies, [...]
A lot of people know the words. “keep it simple, stupid” Yet I wonder how many people have done perfectly. I am talking about in graphic design, clearly not ART. It was an article which was written 2001. I would say the time was right after the dot come bubble collapsed. Article about keeping interface [...]
After my holidays, I have been working on my website. The current website as my portfolio was a mess. This time I built it with simple static HTMLs. Now I’m trying to implement WordPress so this monolog will have the same structure as the other pages.
I was trained by a master of Grid systems designer 9 years ago. He didn’t lecture us directly about it but we all (3 designers) felt the possibility behind his direction. I was also interested in all the books on his book shelf. Since then we have all left his nest and work independently. I [...]
There is a big news for web design; introducing “Typekit.” http://blog.typekit.com/2009/05/27/introducing-typekit/ It is very interesting and would be awesome if we can implement it without controversies especially copyright issues. However when I browsed a website using sIFR, I start wondering how designers can control the font such as kerning, and letter spacing, and web leading is [...]
Whenever I see the name of Paul Rand, I start to think of what would have happened if he had been confronted with the latest technology, particularly the Internet. I guess he would gather all sorts of reasons to deny it, or he would be unwilling to accept it. He would have blamed it telling [...]
I read a blog “Designers: Make it Memorable.” It says you see a lot of new and cutting edge technology on beautiful websites everyday but you cannot remember what it said after that. I posted as “Trends”; A number of beautiful websites are introduced and picked by other websites. I agree with the blog, I [...]
I was asked by my friends whether I do sketches and make mock ups before I translate the design into the data for the web. Migrating the design into html (let’s say for now) is time consuming work. Why? A mock-up screen with graphic software is faster than building up an html. However you have [...]