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6 Web Design News Collective Posts to Keep you Informed

. Web Design

6 Web Design News Collective Posts to keep you informed

Web is a really fast moving industry. As web workers, we have to keep ourselves up to date to the latest best practices, design ideas as well as techniques, in order to advance ourselves to become a better designer and also produce a better web.

The best way to stay up to date is by spending an hour or two a day reading articles from magazines and blogs online, or from printed magazines. In this post, I will show you some useful websites that did a great job collecting latest and notable news and updates under one post.

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The many photos of Mount Fuji

. Japan

The many photos of Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji… what a beautiful mountain. Located on the Honshu island, Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3776 meter height. It’s very well-known iconic symbol for Japan, and often featured in paintings and photographs. In this post, I’m going to share with you really nice photos of Mount Fuji from various photographers.

I was lucky to see Mount Fuji with my own eye on a clear day when I was in Japan three years ago. The shape of the mountain is extremely symmetrical and harmony. I wish to climb the mountain one day and also taste the famous black egg at Owakudani which is near Mount Fuji. Continue reading to check out the photos!

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Quick tip: Use a CDN to host your favorite scripts

. jQuery, Tutorial

Quick tip: Use a CDN to host your favorite scripts

When building website, most probably you will be using Javascript frameworks like jQuery or Mootools to enhance your website. Obviously you will grab a copy of the library from their homepage and link it in your web pages, then upload together to your web space. Well, why not using CDN to host your favorite script?

I found three content delivery networks (CDN) that host some of the most commonly used scripts in the world: Google Libraries API, Microsoft Ajax CDN and CDNJS. Google Libraries is the popular one, but hosts lesser scripts compared to CDNJS. The latter hosted a really huge amount of scripts including Modernizr and many more. And why we should use CDN instead of hosting on our own?

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10 colorful Identity Design for your inspiration

. Art & Design, Inspiration

10 colorful Identity Design for your inspiration

Identity design is one really exciting field of creative work: not only it provides the visual impression, but also helps conveying the right brand message. Normally the identity design will apply across various items like name card, letterhead and many more, and when putting up together, it creates a harmonious and united design.

Normally we will see identity design presented in minimal colors. But today, I’m going to share with you all some great identity design examples that are vibrant and colorful. Lets check them out, and find out how the designer use various colors to create these beautiful identity designs.

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Awesome fan art movie posters that you must see

. Art & Design, Inspiration

Awesome fan art movie posters that you must see

There are a lot of ways to promote a certain thing. But when comes to promoting a movie, movie posters will be the first thing that comes to everyone’s mind. Yes, movie posters play an important role to let everyone know about the movie, and sometimes it can become a precious collectible item too.

Movies give a lot of imagination and inspiration to the audience, and everyone will have different interpretation to the movie. In this post I will show you some really awesome fan art movie posters that were done by talented artists with their own unique styles of presenting the movie poster. Please continue read to check them out!

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10 cute Rilakkuma photos to brighten your day

. Japan

10 cute Rilakkuma photos to brighten your day

Today is Monday and are you feeling great or the other way round? Well nevermind! In this post, I will share some really cute Rilakkuma photos found on the Internet to brighten your day! Rilakkuma is a bear looking character debuted in 2003 in Japan. Since then, it gained popularity and now is one of the most popular character in Japan!

Rilakkuma is actually a combination of two words: Relax and Kuma (Bear in Japanese). Published by San-X company, Rilakkuma has transformed into many forms of merchandises including plushies, decorative elements, books, and many more! According to Japanese Wikipedia, the total sales of Rilakkuma has exceeded 100 billion Yen! What a phenomenon! Continue reading to check out the photos!

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6 tools to compress your website image

. Web Design

6 tools to compress your website image

When comes to website, speed is one of the most important element. It is crucial to keep your website optimized and fast loading even with the slow connection broadband speed. Image is the common element in a webpage and normally it will take up most of the page weight. So we have to make sure the images are properly optimized to ensure the smallest file size possible.

Today, I’m going to introduce 6 tools to compress your JPEG and PNG images without losing much of the quality. The tools mostly are free, and one of them is called Smush.it by Yahoo! as many people know it. I will do a small test and to see which one crushes the pixels the most.

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5 Cute Japanese fonts that you can download for free

. Downloads, Resources, Typography

5 Cute Japanese fonts that you can download for free

Ever fancy of using Japanese fonts that are cute and unique? Today, I’m going to introduce 5 new Japanese fonts that you can download for free and use it right away!

Kodomo Maru Gothic (こども丸ゴシック)

This font give a sense of the naive handwriting style by the small kids. It has the standard Hiragana, Katakana, Numerals and Kanji that students learn during early primary school years.

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Beautiful Artworks of Kumaori Jun

. Art & Design, Japan

Beautiful Artworks of Kumaori Jun

Today, let’s explore into the beautiful artworks of the talented Kumaori Jun, a 23 years old young illustrator from Kyoto, Japan. I recently stumbled to his artworks, and immediately falling in love with his drawing style and the mood his works portray.

Jun’s works often feature a very down-to-earth mixtures of color tone, not brightly cheerful, rich in small details of colors and strokes, and moody. His works normally depict the everyday street scene and also surreal environment as well. There is a little girl in school uniform that often appeared in many of his works too. Actually, I don’t really know whether he is a male or female, but it doesn’t really matter.

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The many photos of Shibuya Scramble Crossing

. Japan

The many photos of Shibuya Scramble Crossing

Shibuya Scramble Crossing is the busiest crossing in world. Everyday, hundreds of thousands of people used the crossing and the crossing scene is really breathtaking, because cars will stop and the road will filled with many people from many directions crossing the intersection. Besides that the crossing also very popular and being featured in Hollywood movies too.

The Shibuya Scramble Crossing connects the Shibuya train station, with many huge shopping centers and retail shops. At night, the countless billboard ads will brighten up the crossing, not to forget the famous Hachiko statue that is just beside the crossing which many people use it as a landmark for meet up. In this post, I will show you the various photos of the crossing taken by various people and photographers.

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