Nice Japanese drama artists portrait illustration

29.01.08

Filed Under: J-Drama, Japan with 4 Comments

Recently I stumbled upon this cool blog yanajun.com which contains the portrait illustrations of popular Japanese artists who acted in the drama series. It already has quite a big collection of illustration and the portraits looks really good and very close to the real person!
The owner of this blog, who has the same name as […]

Creating opacity gradient mask in Flash 8

26.01.08

Filed Under: Tutorial with 9 Comments

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var so = new SWFObject(”http://www.jay-han.com/files/opacitymask.swf”, “mymovie”, “470″, “175″, “8″, “#336699″);
so.write(”flashcontent”);

I’m a flash user since version MX, it is a very great tool to create interactive web contents. But there is one effect I want […]

DesignWalker now in English

24.01.08

Filed Under: Resources with 5 Comments

DesignWalker is one of my most favorite Japanese design blog and I visit it almost every week. It serves as a diary of the web designer who worked in Los Angeles. The site is full packed with tonnes of collections of web design inspiration and resources that he found around the World Wide Web. I […]

The irresistible AXE Effect!

23.01.08

Filed Under: Inspiration, Nice Ads with 0 Comments

AXE (or Lynx in UK, Ireland and Australia), is a world famous grooming brand from Unilever. The product line includes deodorants, body sprays, shower gels and a wide range of seductive fragrances. Their marketing campaign is always exaggerating “boys get girls” or opposite sex attraction especially the AXE Effect campaign. It is very eye catchy, […]

5 unique free Japanese fonts for download

20.01.08

Filed Under: Typography with 9 Comments

Ever fancying of having some cool Japanese fonts instead of using the boring default system Japanese fonts? Well, you are in the right place. Here I found another 5 unique Japanese fonts that is free for download. Why another? This is because I wrote a similar post before which is “Cute Japanese font for download” […]

3 smart tools to translate Japanese sites & words

17.01.08

Filed Under: Japan with 3 Comments

Sometimes the good and useful websites are not available in English or any language that we know, for example Japanese language. It could be very frustrating if you think that the information could be useful but you can’t even understand the article. So, translation tools comes in handy in this kind of situation. Here I […]

Happy 23rd birthday to me

15.01.08

Filed Under: General with 23 Comments

Yes, now I am a 23 years old boy. I was suppose to write this yesterday but I was too hesitate and shy but finally I wrote this out, but edited the post time stamp. So Happy Birthday to me! O-tanjoubi omedetou!
My birthday celebration is rather simple, no cakes no presents, just having […]

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