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Beautiful artworks of Ryotake Masa

Beautiful artworks of Ryotake Masa

Today I want to show you the beautiful illustration works by a Japanese illustrator Ryotake Masa (武政 諒). Born 1981, and graduated from art school and university, he became a freelance illustrator since year 2010. He often get commissioned to create illustrations for books, advertising, and magazines.

What I like about his style is the use of subtle texture to bring life to the illustration that normally depicted with solid colors. The lines are very clearly defined, pairing up with contrasting colors to produce the unique ambiguous artwork. Besides that, I also like the way he illustrates the everyday object in flatty style but yet remained identical. Continue read on to check out some of his works.

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Know more about Japan with Youtube videos

Know more about Japan with Youtube videos

Well, if you want to learn more about other culture, one obvious way is to travel to that country and experience yourself. But sometimes, you want to know more about it, you will have to read books, watch videos and more. For country like Japan which has rich in culture and diversity, every traveler will gain different experiences in Japan! In this article, I will show you a couple of interesting videos and playlists that talks about Japan.

With these videos, I’m pretty sure that you will learn new things, culture, practices and interesting facts about Japan! I get a lot of surprises when viewing some of them. Japan is really a wonderful country and definitely would like to go again! Without further elaborating, read on to check out the videos!

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New color scheme tools for the year 2013

New color scheme tools for the year 2013

When comes to finding color inspirations or searching for color schemes, there are two main resources: Adobe Kuler and also ColourLovers. Both are really essential for designers, to find the suitable colors, and also using the tools to create personal color schemes.

Coming to the year of 2013, according to Coliss.com, there are many other online color and color scheme tools as well. They are not as powerful as the two sites mentioned earlier, but certainly they will helpful in other ways. Please continue read on to check them out!

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10 free responsive sliders for your mobile friendly website

10 free responsive sliders for your mobile friendly website

In recent web design trend, slider is one of the most commonly used interfaces. With slider, you can save a lot of space displaying similar contents and also make the website looks better. However, you might wondering is there any sliders that are responsive and still works in both desktop and mobile resolution? The answer is yes. In this post, I want to introduce 10 responsive sliders that you can use it for free.

Majority of the sliders here are built with jQuery/Javascript. Some are tiny plugins for minimal use, and some are featured pack that can slide contents and also video, not just images. Without further elaborating, continue read on to check out the sliders!

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jQuery plugins libraries – 2013 edition

jQuery plugins libraries - 2013 edition

Last year, I introduced a couple of jQuery plugins website libraries that you should visit, today I would like to make an update to that post. Here, I will show you some other libraries that you can use when looking for great jQuery plugins that will save your development time.

The jQuery Plugin Registry

This is the official jQuery Plugins repository from the maker of jQuery. Although it’s just launched not long ago, but there are already close to 1000 registered plugins. With it’s user friendly interface and also connecting to respective Github repositories, you can easily navigate and check whether the plugins are recently updated or not.

The jQuery Plugin Registry

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13 beautiful Japan related Pinterest boards worth following

13 beautiful Japan related Pinterest boards worth following

Pinterest. A place where you can find beautiful, inspirational images, and also allows you to pin the images you would like to keep and arrange them into boards. There are a lot of Japan related boards too, and I would like to introduce 13 boards here in this post.

The boards ranging from places, food, art and design, architecture and so much more. I bet that you can know more about Japan with these boards and astonish about the beauty of Japan. Without talking much, please continue reading to check them out!

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5 cool modern Japanese houses

5 cool modern Japanese houses

In Japan, the sense of architecture design has been outstanding for all these years. But through the years, the aesthetic value of the architecture and the concept of living has been changing to fit the owners vision of life and their modern lifestyle. In this post, we will dive into some of the modern cool looking Japanese houses.

Below are some examples of modern architecture designs that I found on the Internet that I would like to share with you guys. As you can see the shape of the houses are normally geometrical and very minimal interior design, using a lot of wood and glass that allows huge amount of natural lights to light up the inside during the day. It makes the space bigger and also able to save electricity too. Please check them out!

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Learning Web Development without W3Schools

Learning Web Development without W3Schools

When comes to learning and referring about web development technologies like HTML5, CSS3, Javascript et cetera, normally we would find ourselves entering W3Schools website. At first glance, it’s a great site for learning, however there are many concerns about the reliability and credibility of the website content. W3fools, clearly addresses the problems of W3Schools.

So, if W3Schools posses so much false information and is not recommended by the web professionals, then what should we use instead? In this article we will dive into the alternative website which is better maintained, more open and recognized by the experts. And also a better and more social way of learning HTML and CSS.

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JAYPEG: A design showcase website from Japan

JAYPEG: A design showcase website from Japan

There are many websites that designers and artists can use to showcase their brilliant works for example: Dribbble, Behance, DeviantArt and more. With these sites, designers able to showcase their works, find inspiration, make new friends and get more exposure too! Today, I’m going to introduce JAYPEG, a design showcase site that originated from Japan.

The interface design of the JAYPEG website is really clean and minimal. The navigation is really straightforward, and the uploaded designs were arranged in a form of stack. There are only three public stacks at the moment: The Popular stack showing the popular entries; the Latest stack that displays the latest uploads; finally the Newbie stack for first timer. In there, we can find some really nice designs from Japanese designers. Below are some of the cool examples.

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Trend Alert: Flat UI Design

Trend Alert: Flat UI Design

In the recent years of Web and UI design, there are a lot of design examples that are visually stunning, with sense of depth and mimicking the real life objects. But in the year 2013, a design style has gotten into attention and become a rising trend: the flat UI Design.

Flat UI designs are usually minimal, less sense or absolutely no sense of depth, less gradient and more solid color fields, and huge white spaces. The visual components are usually straight forward, clean interfaces and uses flat icons as well. Continue reading to find out some examples of the flat UI designs.

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