Feature 1: Fabulous Sites Designed for Smart Phones

The Showcase of Creative Web Pages You Definitely “Wanna Check out” Using Smart Phones

Featured here is a wide array of creative and innovative sites that are designed specifically for smart phones. Way more exciting and fun than Web pages that just effectively provide information to the users, these sites focus on high usability and are laden with interactive “experiences”. Although, compared to PC sites, smart phone specific sites have a lot of restrictions like display size and communication/ browse environments, you can make them creative and fabulous with a few ideas and techniques.

Feature 2: Full-on Web Developer Tool Application Reference

Let’s Utilize Multifunctional Browsing Tools Geared for Developers for Web Production!

Major web browsers nowadays are equipped with page analyzing tools designed for Web developers. While they are indispensable to Web production for their ability to grasp the structure of Web site and confirm its performance, there seem to be a lot of people who can’t master their multifunctionality. This feature provides you with a thorough, practical guide on these Web developer tools.

Special: Why Did NAKAMURA Yugo Create FRAMED*?

Don't Miss It! A New Platform for Digital Art

FRAMED*

Collaboration Project “Choco Banana”

YAMAMOTO Hiroshi (Robert) × NAKAMURA Hiroki (PARTY) “Loser’s Calligraphy” Round Table

As announced in the previous issue, the collaborative service “Loser Hiroshi’s Loser’s Calligraphy” by Robert’s YAMAMOTO Hiroshi and PARTY’s NAKAMURA Hiroki saw its official launch in late March. 10 days after the launch, in the dead of night, they met up with the production team members at PARTY’s office. Enjoy their round-table talk!

Loser Dog Sho-do | Choco Banana

Portrait - Web Craftsman's Portrait -

BABA Kanpei / After a Decade, the Challenge of User Participatory Contents Reached the Stratosphere

BABA Kanpei is a technical/ creative director of much-talked-about creative production “Bascule”. He was among the first to tackle Flash-based multi-user contents, and since he joined Bascule a decade ago, he’s been continuing his challenges to ad communication of all sorts. Mr. Baba, who at last succeeded in linking the universe and users last year, shared with us his production philosophy.

Bascule

WF Inside Story

UU’s Brand Site that Utilized Google Map’s UI Full-on

Fashion brand “UU”, brought into being through an unexpected collaboration between UNIQLO and UNDERCOVER, debuted on March 16th. People are queuing up in front of their stores, already drawing much attention, while their Web site is also worth checking out. This UI based site using Google map’s API not only enlarges the image but switches to unexpected displays, leading the user deep into the core of the world this new brand creates. We interviewed PARTY’s SHIMIZU Kanta, who was in charge of creative direction, as well as other production staff members.

UU uniqlo undercover

TSUKURUHITO

Yuki Precision co.,ltd (Precision Cutting Manufacturer) / Tops are Spinning, Small Factories are Dancing

Do you know about the event held in February called “All Japan Manufacturers Tops Battle”? This is the event, where sure-handed manufacturers battle against each other using tops that they created by exerting their ingenuities within the limitation of “diameter less than 20mm”. Under the straightforward rule “you lose if your top goes out of the ring or stops first,” the precision cutting manufacturer Yuki Precision co.,ltd won a close contest.

Yuki Precision co.,ltd | BRANCH

Crash Course Serial: Jump into Metro!

Let's Jump into the World of Metro's UI on a Windows Phone
#3: Developing Windows Phone Application Using Native Applications

This time, we will delve into the development of native applications, which can bring out the potential capability of Windows Phone to the fullest. We use “Microsoft Expression Blend” as a tool. As introduced in our magazine, sample files are available also.

FocusOn: A New Form of Technology × Creative “FabCafe” Open!

What is “FAB” Spirit?

Have you ever heard of the term “FAB”? Coined by combining “fabrication” and “fabulous”, it’s a new “monozukuri (fabrication)” movement spreading across the globe. Recently opened in Shibuya, “FabCafe” is a slightly unusual café and creative space that offers FAB spirit in a fun, tasty and easy fashion. We asked the café’s producer FUKUDA Toshiya from Triple Seven Interactive about the appeal of FAB.

FabCafe

Exonemo’s “Touching the Webdefault” Vol.7

This ongoing project is again centered on the theme “default”…. PowerPoint was featured in the previous issue, and this time, we introduce iOS!!

http://exonemo.com/wf/

Manga AC Club Activity Daily Log

#12 “Showering”

As a creator, you must have had a bunch of experiences where you received dozens of “no-gos” from your clients and agencies. What do you do when you reached the point where you have to instantly come up with new ideas? AC Club will provide you with some instructions on how to overcome such desperate moments.

AC Club

New Lab Launch: Web Designing Lab.

• CSS Lab._Challenging the Customization of Input Form Using CSS3
  Text: AKIBA Hideki

• jQuery Lab._Utilizing Twitter Bootstrap’s jQuery Plug-ins
  Text: TOKUDA Kazunori, TANI Hiroki

• Smartphone Lab._Extending Form Using jQuery Mobile
  Text: Coding Factory

• Flash Lab._Easily Implementing Scroll Bar
  Text: IKEDA Yasunobu

  

Server Quick Reference

(Usage of Hosting Server)
Text: INOUE Satoshi

movement

(Event & Artist introduction)

Worldwide Creator's Archive

Superfamous／The Starting Point is Functionality and the Pursuit of Beauty

Superfamous

Website Front

(Pick up new-arrival Web sites)
TRENCH TRIP - UNITED ARROWS, Mercedes-Benz the new A-Class 2012, BEAMS Women's IREKAE KISEKAE, PARTY, TAG REACTION, and more

one's view

• “Technowogy is the Bestest Toy”
  Text: SHIMIZU Qanta
  Do, Do, Doli, Doli, DoDoDoDo Doliland

• “Internet ‘Interstice’ Culture”
  Text: HAYASHI Tomohiko（nuuo)
  YouTube Reply Girl

• “Sayonara Desktop”
  Text: TANIGUCHI Akihiko
  DESKTOP VIEWS

• “New Social Game Platform”
  Text: URANO Daisuke
  Zynga.com

Making a Mark on a Ruler

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

Hop, Step, JavaScript! –Learning the Program’s Basics from Scratch–

”Conditional Branching” that Divides Results Based on Expression

Social Seeds

New Possibilities Created through the SNS-Game Integration Exemplified by “GFACE”
Text: NOZAWA Tomo (nitenichiryu)

GFACE

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

The One and Only Trick to Happily Survive the Web Industry
Text: KOIZUMI Shinya

Tachibana School

What Kind of Procedure Should I Recommend to My Client?
Text: TACHIBANA Mamoru

Mobile Contents Front Line

FINAL FANTASY BRIGADE: Mobile’s All-round Stratagem that Even Popular RPG is Tackling.

FINAL FANTASY BRIGADE

News Crawler

(News)

WD Reviews

(Products Reviews)
[Anime Creator Pro 8][Intuos5 touch]

Hagihara Research Institute

It’s Actually Hard to Do Restaurants Rating
Text: HAGIWARA Masashi

Others

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