one, Japan

2nd of Jun, 2008ce* in: eat, websites

After producing the me too campaign - voice to help the worlds poor, primarily for G8 in Japan this year - one approached Eat creative [where I am web-producer] to handle their Japanese localisation and filming / press.

As part of this we were asked to create a Japanese version of the one website, entirely built and localised by us. Myself and the programmer knew that we needed to untangle the site a bit so worked from scratch via my illustrator templates, instead of the existing code.

I guess the highlight of this is watching the “one” juggernaut  at work, with celebrities like (dr) Bono and Antony Gormley coming to Japan to support the effort. The entangled limbs of the respective charities do serve to provide a powerful voice this year, effects are noticeable - Japanese PM pledging more aid to Africa  already - and tanabata day is the pinnacle of this, when the G8 summit is held.

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Pantone Shop Japan

1st of Jun, 2008ce* in: eat, websites

The global website they have is labyrinthine at best, so my job was to simplify things for Japan, which is still an emerging market for Pantone. I was asked to come up with an art direction then take it to production level after approval from the client. To my amazement head office approved the design straight away [even though it's very different to the global site]. Needless to say, they are very happy with it.

A few features of the new site are:

• colour coding. Each area of the site is a pantone colour combination - with corresponding swatch at the bottom of each page - which helps users remember which area a product belongs to.
• Rounded corners. For browsers that natively support them. Currently IE6 and IE7 have square corners, which also looks nice!
• Full validation. Pantone shop Japan is fully standards compliant.

Along with some other spicy things like jquery drop down transitions, hopefully this incarnation of the shop translates pantones image better to the Japanese audience than previous incarnations.

additional programming by Erik Johansson

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Logic Lingo

13th of May, 2008ce* in: dadako, logos/fonts, print, websites

A good friend of mine asked for a identity to support his new translation company. I settled on an optical illusion for the logo, with two L’s fused together a la M.C.Esher. The font is the wonderful Neo Tech™ with a little bit of hand kerning.
In addition to the logo I delivered a simple bilingual website and business cards.

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eat creative homepage

1st of May, 2008ce* in: eat, websites

http://eatcreative.jp/ 

As part of the may 1st reboot, we decided to create a new look for Eat’s homepage, which has been out of date for quite some time.

Although in need of a facelift to something more web friendly that reflects the type of work Eat do, and the web standards it preaches; time has been in short supply.

Sometime in late 2007 I was drafted in to come up with an idea, art direction and make it work. I picked up this hot potato and ran with it!

Features include:

• no menu. I wanted the sites content to be the navigation. Was hard to wrangle the idea of sitemaps and menus away from Eat, but eventually I think we all agree that it works well without pre-defined menu items.
• accessible. One of the major concerns was to get google to pick up on the content and let users bookmark articles and so on.
• basic, content driven interface.

As the site grows and becomes an archive of everything Eat produces, it will start to take on a life of it’s own.

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me too

14th of Apr, 2008ce* in: eat, websites

me too is a campaign spear headed by 4 charities (oxfam, world vision, Joicfp & Africa Japan Forum) to raise awareness of the Japanese public about G8, which is being held in Japan this year (2008). Me too appeals to spark an education of global health problem targets, set by the G8 but not currently achieved. Final delivery will be a petition of 100,000 names delivered to the G8 summit in July.

My part to play in the grand scheme of things, albeit small, was to tailor a website template from initial branding designs and move forward with the websites art direction / design, including production of all the flash animations and video clips. I also integrated the idea of using SNS networks to further boost community interest.
The complete project run by Eat Creative lends it’s self to press events, event management, t-shirts, bags and so on.

Coding by Erik Johansson.

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keio KEO

29th of Mar, 2008ce* in: eat, websites

A recent template for Keio University, and their economic department

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Keio PCP

26th of Feb, 2008ce* in: eat, websites

We were asked to provide a new website for the PCP program at Keio University here in Tokyo.

Coding by Erik Johansson, design by myself.

The website is offered in English and Japanese, and is fully standards compliant.

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Ottoblog

1st of Sep, 2007ce* in: dadako, websites

Charged with making a blog for the German fashion brand Otto, and their Japanese brand Otto-Sumisho.
Developed wireframes and code base / design for this wordpress based blog.
Happy to see it being populated by the authors and learnt a few new wordpress tricks in the build, such as: author page, frontpage post styling.

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Salon Boutique Autumn 2007

10th of Aug, 2007ce* in: animation, dadako, illustration, websites

I decided to make a stalkers photography den for this seasons interactive web presence. More of an experience than a useful tool, this site is for playing and getting some information about the seasons upcoming collection.

the site is built in flash, using some fairly complex actionscript. I’ve never been much of a scripter but gave it a shot for this project.

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The Plant relaunch

20th of Jul, 2007ce* in: dadako, websites

I was asked recently by my friend Anatole to give his company homepage a complete make over, with some friendly illustration and colour.

It went live today, and works in Japanese and English.
Luckily, it was hands off for the coding in my part, just direction to the coders from my original templates. Based on Radiant CMS as I understand it. I chipped in at the start to get some of the basic styles coded.

Illustrations also by myself, based on the staff that work at “the Plant”.

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