Lorem Ipsum

Lorem Ipsum is dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.

Web Standards

the Web Standards Curriculum, a course designed to give anyone a solid grounding in web design/development put together by Chris Mills, a developer relations manager for Opera.

Website layouts 02: Design Melt Down - Web Design Analysis

This is a site focuses on design elements, trends & problems in web design. It even has a section addressing 6 design principles: Emphasis, Contrast, Balance, Alignment, Repetition and Flow. It is perfect for our web design class. Take a look: designmeltdown.com

Color 02: Colour Lovers

A great website for color study. Love ColourLovers!

visual cultural: 2wice magazine

Each issue of 2wice, published twice yearly by the 2wice Arts Foundation, is a thematic exploration into the visual and performing arts. By focusing on themes, rather than a specific medium or discipline, links are established between diverse areas of cultural and artistic practice, such as painting, sculpture, photography, film, design, fashion, dance, music, material culture and new media. 2wice is intended to both document and vividly materialize the theme of each issue. Recently, this site also added a video section. Check here.

2wice magazine is designed by Pentagram's New york office, Under the direction of Abbott Miller.

Color: KULER

KULER: the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project.

Designer: 佐藤晃一（Sato Koichi）

佐藤晃一（Sato Koichi）is one of my favorite graphic designer in Japan. Even I can see his work frequently in American and European design magazines and books but when I search online there was no enogh english based information about him. I consided him a master in graphic design just like Tadao Ando in architechture. He was called "the magician of color".

more personal: The change of Philips' wordmark

Philips, updated its wordmark months ago. All the modifications point to a need for better performance and reproducibility.


Brand New had a blog post on this change "On the image above we can see some of the changes: The old logo is in red, the new one in blue, and then overlayed. The biggest change is the width of the characters and the additional spacing between characters, resulting in a slightly wider wordmark, but not drastic enough where they are sacrficing a need for additional space to render the logo. The angles of the "S" and "L" have also been modified to be more unique, and not just a 90-degree angle.The other big change was to go from a geometric, monoweight sans serif to a more humanist sans serif, with clearer contrast between thicks and thins; I imagine this was done because the wordmark was "gaining weight" at the joints when reproduced, while having these slightly curved joints would reproduce as straight corners when molding a logo out of plastic or metal or any other material. In print and online, however, the changes will be more noticeable, and the new wordmark feels more personable and friendly and less mechanic. Overall, this is an interesting change, and while I usually prefer my sans serifs monoweight and geometric I can see how this wordmark benefits from the small tweaks."