Features & Special Reports

• Typography for Web Designers

  Feature 1: How to Enjoy Typography

  - What Top Designers Have to Say about the Appeal of Letterforms -

  Whether it is for the web or for magazines, letterforms are an integral element in design. It’s a familiar topic that still has a lot of unexplored territory. This feature shares the essentials of typography as well as stories about typography from top designers. The more you know, the more interesting it is ? welcome to the world of typography!

  

  Feature 2: Taking on the Challenge of Web Typography

  - The World of Letterforms through Web Design -

  Typography on the web is beginning to get interesting ? CSS-based typography is attracting attention abroad, and beautiful motion typography is emerging from the Flash scene in Japan. This feature, the web half of our special on typography, introduces the cutting edge of typography by looking at the unique challenges taken on by web creatives and experiments with beautiful composition. See how far typography on the web has come!

  

• OnClick: New Animation Creation with Flash CS4

  - More Robust Animation with Object Based Creation! -
  Text: SIHO (F-site)

  

• OnClick: The popular CMS comes to Japan!

  - High reliability and extendability with “eZ Publish” (Part Two) -
  

  

  eZ Publish

Running Stories

Tide & Trends

• Worldwide Creator's Archive

  Nicholas Felton | Megafone

  

• Website Front

  (Pick up new-arrival Web sites)
  [FOUNDATION vol.02][Eric Chan Design Co Ltd.] and others

  

• Website Front_In-Depth Report

  Need for Speed Undercover | FRONTAGE INC. | RaNa extractive,inc. | ASAP Co.,ltd.

• New author: one's view

  Whopper Virgins
  Text: Takashi Kawashima (Goodby, Silverstein & Partners)

  the studio
  Text: Takashi Okada

  BCCKS
  Text: Yoshihiro Shindo (BeInteractive!)

  Das neue MINI Cabrio
  Text: Kenji Ohta

• Tsu-Ku-Ru-Hi-To (People with creativeness)

  - Taku Anekawa (Artist) -

Tech & Tips

• Intensive program: Innovations in Flash Development “ActionScript Libraries”

  “Progression” Component Style - Creating a Full Flash Site with Non-scripts
  Text: Takahiro Abe/Daiki Koyama

  Progression

• IDEA LAB

  (Ideas to elevate the quality of your web site)
  Text: Sonoe Takigami (DesignStudio CYAN,INC.)

  

• HOSTING SERVICE Essence

  (Usage of Hosting Server)
  Text: Satoshi Inoue

• School for motion geeks_The Principal's Laboratory

  (Techniques for solving Flash related problems)
  Text: Shunsuke Ozaki (cshool)

• AIR WORLD by KAYAC

  (Basic technique of Adobe AIR)
  Text: Koujiro Seo and Saburoh Suzuki(KAYAC)

• CSS Analysis

  (CSS/XHTML)
  Text: Miki Ofuji

  J.BradfordDillon

• Get Started Using Ajax

  (Basic technique for Ajax)
  Text: Kazuhiro Furuhata

Column & Essay

• What Design Can Do

  (Design Essay)
  Text: Yasuhito Nagahara

  

• Making a Mark on a Ruler

  (Tota Hasegawa Visual Essay from "tomato interactive")
  Text & Visual: Tota Hasegawa

• The Unknown Days of Animation Authors "Yamamura Monthly Update"

  (Column by Kouji Yamamura, Academy Award Nominee for "Atamayama")
  Text & Illustration: Kouji Yamamura

• Hagihara Laboratory

  (Exploring the Internet through numbers)
  Text: Masashi Hagihara (NetRatings)

• From the Data of Web Designers Report: "The Landscape of this Job"

• Tachibana School

  (Coaching how to produce rich contents)
  Text: Mamoru Tachibana

• Baby boom

  (A new form of art from the prodigy, Yuichi Yokoyama)
  manga & Text: Yokoyama Yuichi

News & Information

• movement

  (Event introduction)
  [ARTS & CRAFTS FROM MORRIS TO MINGEI] and others

• WD Reviews

  (Products Reviews)
  [Microsoft Expression Blend 2 SP1] and others

• News Crawler

  (News)

• Others

  List of Web agencies from all over the country
  Monitor & Present
  WD Square
  Back Numbers