http://www.dadako.com web log of a designer living in Tokyo, Japan Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:26:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This month, Web design note profile me and my work on; Pantone, Transport for London and Salon Boutique. Last month I received a call out of the blue. Unsure as to who was calling me and exactly what they wanted (the conversation was in Japanese) I took the time to find ... http://www.dadako.com/web%e3%83%87%e3%82%b6%e3%82%a4%e3%83%b3%e3%83%8e%e3%83%bc%e3%83%88-no07 Now that the iPhone is finally hitting Japan, and I've finally upgraded to Leopard, I'm looking for a pro-active programmer(s) to work with me on game development! Requirements are fairly simple, you just need to be super interested in making games for the iPhone with ample games programming experience. However this ... http://www.dadako.com/iphone-homebrew 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 ... http://www.dadako.com/one-japan Pantone needed a new - unique - shop for their Japanese website. 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 ... http://www.dadako.com/pantone-shop-japan I went to a no-smoking pub in naka-meguro. While I'm not adverse to a total ban on smoking in Japan, entering a pub where no one is smoking was kind of strange. I haven't been back to the UK since the smoking ban was enforced, so I had no idea what ... http://www.dadako.com/no-smoking A good friend of mine asked me to develop a logo and visual language for his startup company (webconverger) distributing an all-in-one linux based portable web browser. We mulled over a plethora of daisy designs, finally choosing the most vibrant one for it's web 2.0 charm. The daisy represents convergence. Instead of ... http://www.dadako.com/webconverger 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 ... http://www.dadako.com/logic-lingo 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 ... http://www.dadako.com/eat-creative-homepage For New-Zealand meat and wool. I've been doing their entire Japanese branding; website, events, booklets, in-store displays and so on. This cuts diagram had gone through a few iterations, some slightly eyebrows raising spelling errors. I believe this is the final version. http://www.dadako.com/cuts my advice, don't bother. I sold it. What a terrible let down. I may not be articulate enough a reviewer to pin it down but, I just couldn't be bothered to play it after a few days, theres something mind numbingly boring about racing the AI. Not that it's too ... http://www.dadako.com/wii-mario-kart