WEBSITE Archive

I'd not been updating this blog recently... Because of the project "Hadalove", for a skincare products series, and it has launched today at last!

This became a very important and unforgettable experience to me.
I had built the root concept of both TVCM and websites, and this (making a TVCM at the same time) was the first challenge for me, actually.
The concept I made was "Suri-Suri".
Suri-Suri means a sound of rubbing something, in Japan. And I guess this common expression is not only in Japan - if you have something really favorite, you would rub your cheek on it.
So, I wanted to tell "If you use this skincare products, it makes everyone want to rub your brand-new beautiful skin with their own cheek. blah blah blah..." through Suri-Suri.
And the products' main concept is "simple". So I didn't make the website decorative. A little bit too simple? Why not? hehe

BTW, when I was thinking about the famous standard Jazz song called "Cheek to Cheek", I got this idea suddenly. We often can find ideas, from some totally unrelated things. And I like this way better. I don't wanna get the inspirations from only internet, then express it only in internet again.

Anyway, please enjoy this website together with the sound. Don't forget to make it fullscreen first. And also enjoy the TVCM if you live in Japan.

When I was taking a look at THEFWA.com, I found such a great website with a very novel idea.

BooneOakley.com

This website has been made of only those functions of Youtube.
Right now, we think it's just a website made of Youtube, but you know, unbelievably tons of people is watching Youtube everyday, but no one could make this idea before them. It looks very easy and simple, but I can tell that the team which built this has a very flexibly point of view.
Of course, I guess that someone already conceived an quite similar idea, but there is a huge difference between just "planning" and "execution", in fact.
Also I really like this atmosphere of the art direction. I know this kinda "low fidelity style" is a very big movement recently in a design industries (especially internet) in '00s.
Anyways, I'm gonna do my best to have new ideas like this!

This is the top page of this website. You can navigate to everywhere from here.

Not only this technical idea, but they also have an absolutely great creativity.

Of course every contents were made by movie, so if you won't touch them, it's gonna be changed and finished automatically.

We can send the Youtube message to them.

They're having big clients!

WTF!?

BooneOakley.com

Warp.net has been redesigned by Universal Everything recently.
The founder Matt Pyke used to be a member of Designers Republic. Their DNA exists still around the UK design scene, although Designers Republic has closed its doors unfortunately.
Warp's websites were built by Kleber for long time, but I couldn't find their name on the credit anymore. It means Universal Everything and Kleber are building a really close relationship, I guessed.
The production company for this website was Remote Location which is a obviously cool creative boutique.
Anyway, I really love UK web design industry's Ajax fundamentalism style! Very cool, mate!! =)

This below is "Warp Playlist". They're not only great artists, but also awesome business people!! Haha

The pokemon website was chosen for Games-Related category of 13th Annual Webby Awards Official Honoree!! Yes!
Unfortunately, it couldn't reach for the Nominees and of course Winners ("Official Honoree" means kind of "Shortlist"), but I'm still so happy! I'm very glad that I could be a part of the great project team members.
Thank you for all!! =)

Pokemon World Championships 2008 Archives

Client: The Pokemon Company
Production: Dentsu Inc. Kansai / 1-10 design
Published: October 10, 2008

Staff list:
PL: SUZUKI Kei (Dentsu Inc. Kansai)
AD: SUDA Kentaro aka THUGLIFE (Dentsu Inc. Kansai)
DI: SAWAI Hirokazu (1-10 design)
DE: NAKANO Koda (1-10 design)
FL: KAWAI Ikuo (1-10 design)

Webby Awards Honorees Lists

This microsite was made for the Philips's "A Cinema 21:9" television. This is a totally simple website but also very impressive! I don't have any ideas how to make this kinda crazy technical movie, at all.
I like web advertisements, because they can be standing on a nice point between ads and arts then make the border to be obscurely. Of course it's not possible every time, at least easier than the other medias though, maybe.
Anyway, I love this one as both an advertising and a movie.

Agency: Tribal DDB Amsterdam
Production: Stink Digital
Directed: Adam Berg

Carousel: Acinema 21:9 Production

They're really good at seeding. :P
Okay, I'll be a part of this dude! (Cus I luv Ma.gnolia!)

Super Secret Special Announcement for Ma.gnolians

- Larry and the Ma.gnolia Team

I was playing all the time at this valley called "Todoroki Keikoku" when I was a child. This is in Tokyo, but still there are deep nature. We caught a lot of stag beetles and other bugs around there.

I was in this christian kindergarten. I completely remember the smells of the cherry blossom in the garden. But I've just realized that the buildings were reconstructed (this church is still same though). A little bit sad.

Tamadutsumi elementary school. This buildings have been changed a lot too. I was in a soccer club. And everyday, I was drawing some pictures after finishing classes.

I was playing Table tennis every day when I was in this junior high school!
And I went to a "Game Center" very often to play Black Jack and Poker with my friends.

Shinjuku high school. This school is located on the totally center of Tokyo, Japan. Just front of the Shinjuku station, actually. So there were many bad opportunities for teenagers around there. It was one of the craziest time of my life. lol

Especially when I went to Tama Art University, I was really into writing some graffiti pieces on the street. I gotta apologize to everyone who was written something on your walls by me! :-P

I'm ashamed that I didn't know about this website called "Fabchannel", and there are a lot of very nice and high quality video archives of concerts. And of course we can embed these ones like above. You can watch seamlessly the other songs if they have.
I'm interested in finding something nice video / music archives on the internet more. Do you know something else?

Fabchannel / Videos
Archive.org / Everything
Summer Mix Series 2008 - yewknee.com / Many mixes
biscoradio / All Disco Biscuits

The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video...from your computer to anywhere.

This's a very useful program. Yeah, of course there are a lot of capturing program else, but the concept "always-ready (always standing-by at the right-top corner of desktop)" is very characteristic.

Jing Project

This is a really nice idea. I didn't notice that there is such a good synergy between Beatport and Youtube. So far, the matching is not so correct because of beta version. However, I expect to this a lot!

Beatporttube

This is a Brazilian web-creative company's website which is an archives of such a dirty words in many languages.
I love this kinda meaningless technological website a lot.
Whatever, I really wanna go to Brazil someday!!!!!!

Gringo

Recently, I'm using such a beautiful screensaver "DROPCLOCK" made by Yugo Nakamura's creative squad called THA Tokyo. And SCR is kinda experimental lab founded by the members.
He's the one of genius programmers, and he always on the top of web creative scene for long time.
About 6 years ago, I offered to do a job together to him. I'd got very impressed at that time. And the website that we made got the Cannes Advertising Award.
He was a very relaxing guy. But the atmosphere from his inside was totally different with the other creators. I could tell that he had very strong confidence. Nuf' respect!

Information from: IWKN

SCR | DROPCLOCK

You can create a GIF Animation from any YouTube movie you like, on this website. You need only the address. Nice!

P.S.
This is the original movie.

Gickr.com

QuickTime VR is not modern technology at all, but it seems very fresh to me every moment. And it's still much lighter than Flash version so far.
Visit this website below. There are a lot of brand-new VR photos.
I love the "All Saints Day in Krakow" one, especially. So beautiful, innit?

DRAG IMAGE - ZOOM=SHIFT/CTRL

Panoramas.dk

A genius actionscripter Andre Michelle from Germany has made such an amazing synthesizer simulator which is worked by flash player.
Actionscript 3.0 has enlarged the web technology a lot.

hobnox Audiotool Demo

At last we can see the sky without any softwares! Good job Mr. Google!
And also can put the constellation's pictures upon the sky map, like below. Then you can control the transparency level by the "Historical" slider on right-top.
I think we can use this for some romantic things.
...Oh No, this is not a romantic idea at all. Too geeky. lol

Google Sky

The fabulous website called "Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab" made by Less Rain got the "S.O.T.M. (Site of the Month)" award for The FWA!
Congratulations Rars and Carsten! I'm so proud of you guys!!! ;)

Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab
Less Rain
The FWA

I really love this art direction. Well, Hong Kong is a perfect city to be expressed in pixel art, innit? This site is a little bit slow, but still very nice! I miss Hong Kong a lot!

EDUSH

I've switched this blog's CMS to MovableType again.
I was using MovableType before, but I switched it to WordPress because of just my interest.
Actually, I've realized that MovableType is much easier to use than WordPress. This is my opinion. I know it depends on the way to use the blog for, but I can say that especially for designers, MovableType's construction is very sophisticated and easy.
I hate that I have to republish every fxxxing time but that's very small thing. I don't mind.
Anyway MovableType4 is totally different with the older version ones. The biggest reason is MovableType had changed to open source, I guess. This was a very great decision.
But there are some problems at the importing entries from WordPress to MovableType. Every line breaks had gone away!! I have to fix one by one... ;-(

This beautiful art works (made by HTML code!!) were created by Chris Ashley who is an artist, writer, and educator living in Oakland, California. The beautiful colors remind me of Mark Rothko.
Look, See; HTML Drawings Series Archives

This Web site is designed to provide information on the resources and services of the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa Libraries. It is the gateway to the International Online Bibliography of Dada. As the site is developed, it will also become a resource for additional information about the historic Dada movement and the individual Dada writers and artists, as well as links to other Internet resources.
At a campus festival when I was an art student, we opened a Tacos bar called "Cavalet Voltaire". I named it and of course the name came from the cavalet which was opened by Hugo. I was really into the ideas of Dada, at that time.
I've just found this website. This is a very valuable archive. Enjoy!
International Dada Archive

Those ones are unbelievably silly but pretty funny, arn't they? lmao Can you guess the meaning of this expression? I like this one best. hehehe This video is the answer. You know what I'm sayin'?????

So funny. lol Is this ad made by Crispin Porter + Bogsky still?

Discription:Video showcase platform for the film archive of the Okeanos Foundation, combining on emotional cinema experience and a flip-book-like navigation.

OMG this is an unbelievably beautiful website! I dunno this navigation is the best or not, but anyway, the movie is dazzlingly gorgeous!!
whalefootage
via www.thefwa.com

Recently, a couple of new functions were added to YouTube embed player.
One of those functions is the showing some related videos' list when the end of movies, or by clicking a button.
And the other one is the customising of the colors and the border of a player.

Related Videos' List
You can control about including this list or not by the parameter "rel".
"rel=0" = Don't include related videos
"rel=1" = Include related videos

Customise Color and Border
Use those parameters "color1", "color2" and "border".
Of course "border" is for the border.
"border=0" = Hide border
"border=1" = Show border
And the color customising is just a little bit complicated.
The parameter "color1" is for the base color of a player and border. But the base color is shown on the very thin top area only (when "border=0").
The parameter "color2" is for the over color. And this color is gonna be 80% transparented on the control area (Actually this color's shown on a part of the border, when "border=1", anyway).

So, as a result, the mixed color of "color1" and 80% "color2" will be the main color of a player.
I've changed some players on this page, so check'em out.

Oh my goodness! This is very cute ad! I really love this!!! :-)
Fight For Kisses /// Wilkinson

Okay, I introduce these three awesome websites today. Recently, I've not been buying any CDs and music datas at all, but I'm downloading a lot of mixes, instead. Almost those mixes were recorded in clubs, or by (internet) radio programs for example BBC - Radio1's "essential mix" and Kiss100's ones from London or something like those from the whole world.
Well, so it's really easy to get those high quality mixes for FREE, of course.
This fact is gonna totally change your music life, I guess, like me.
Actually, there are many other websites like these below, so let me know if you know others.

New Mixes
This is my most favorite downloaing site lately. Must listen the Josh Wink's one. Minimal!
Notice : If you have any problems with downloading - try Firefox.

sashasretroemporium
Massive illegal! Don't give a fxxk!! lol

And you know Beatport has been planning to sell mixes, but that is deferred until now for long time. I think this plan has broken down already...

"Send real letter messages tather than just a greeting card.
Buy letters and create words to display around your home."
I got these letters at last! I ordered these at the website about 2 weeks ago.
These were a little smaller than my image, though.
Well, how can I use these ones for? lol
Actually I have no idea, please gimmi some ideas for that!

GUIdebook
This is a very very interesting Graphical User Interface gallery website. A lot of screenshots and videos. The site design is very simple and beautiful too.



Apple Evolution
You can see almost every Apple products from 1976 to 2007 in here. Apple I to iPhone. Cool designs!



A Website about Corporate Identity
I don't know how was the webmaster able to collect this kinda rare informations about corporate identities? Amazing!



Early Comics & Cetera
I didn't know there are a lot of early comics' Otaku in the world. But the creativity of these comics are very interesting. Cute drawings!



Project MegaDrive
This website was made by a massive Sega headz! Many many screen shots and very deep informations of each softwares.



Miffies Fonts
You can get such a cute old NES games' fonts from this website. I like these titles of the fonts.



Movies Title Screens Page
This is unbelievably interesting website! You can find a lot lot lot of movies title screen shots in here. One of the greatest archive websites in this world, I think.



Early Japanese Games' TV Commercials
Very old Japanese games' TV commercials collection by Masasuke. He is kinda bit freaky but I really respect his energy. Check the other site by him called Leotard Museum below.



Leotard Museum
This is the website for all of Leotard informations and visuals by the king of Leotard fetish Mr. Masatake! Why is he so open about his own sexual fetisism? lol



My fxxking Earz!!!!!
You can watch the very rare Japanese underground bands' movies. Made by not Japanese person. Very nice movies!!



Museum of bad album covers: the worst album covers ever!
Bizarre Records
Dana's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art
Frank's Vinyl Museum
All these sites are about very bad LP covers. Soooo funny! I used to be one of the collectors of records, so I have some of these, actually. Totally can't understand!

Recently, I buy music files almost from this website. A lot of Djs and composers based on electric music scene are uploading their own brand-new singles onto this website, before press vinals nor Cds. Very very fresh stuffs you can find in there.

And the compressing quality is very good. Of course the file weight is a little bit heavier than the other Mp3 stores' ones, whatever.
Many my Dj friends in Tokyo, buy a lot of music files from this website, everyday. And djing by Traktor, of course.
I'm practicing Traktor recently, but I don't have the console, so gotta control that by a fxxking small track pad by my shaky finger.

I really want this console, Vestax VPC-100. Cuz the genuine one's design is the worst.
Whatever, I really wanna convert my every music from vinal to digital. If someone has good idea to do that, let me know, please.

BeatPort.com

At last, YouTube Japanese version has dropped.

YouTube Remixer (Beta)

"Use YouTube's Video Remixer to "remix" your videos with text, audio, graphics, overlays, effects, and transitions."
This service has launched just recently, is a Flash based video editing application on the net.

And we can try the new version of the main watching page.
Push the button next to a movie area, then you can see the new version called "Watch 3.0" which has a little bigger movie screen and redesigned interfaces.

jp.YouTube.com
YouTube Remix

This website has been made by Tha inc, Tokyo.
This's still beta version, so the persons who can update images are limited now. Fortunately, my friend invited me to join that, and then, I'm really into this world.
If it's gonna be opened for every person, must be so fun!
If it has "Tag" or something like that, and make it easy to dig out images from this website, it's more better and fun I thought, though.

http://ffffound.com

Oh my way!!!! This bland-new Google Maps' function is fxxxxn' awesome!!!!

Google Maps; Street View

"Anyone can make Kraftwerk T-shirts easily, if you use these fonts."
Caution: No sideburns only!!!!!!

KRAFTWERK Font Archives

http://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.jp

This websit's sick. Simple but heavy, technical but meaningless. I'm lovin' it.
And I researched the other stupid domains, then founded these ones below.

http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com

http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com

Immediately, I try to get an free e-mail address in this website. Why don't you try it? This website is not still famous yet, so you can get any account name you want. My brand-new e-mail addrss is...

ps
I've just got the other addresses.

hello_my_name_is_kentaro_suda@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com
whydoesitgottabesodamnhotkentaro@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com

Too fxxkn' long. lol

Adobe's bland-new website called Sugorock.net has just launched today.
I joined this project and made 3 characters. I'm so proud of this opportunity, because all the other artists are very famous and representing recent Japanese art scene. Luck guy! ;)
The characters that I made are "Toro". It used to be a lantern before, but now it's just a decoration item for a traditional Japanese garden. I wanted to put an adult, traditional atmosphere to your blog by this.
...whatever.
Sugorock.net

I found this crazy kitsch website for a Pachinko company Sanyo on The FWA recently. I don't understand this kinda taste of sense, but I can't hate the stupid atmosphere at the same time, though. lol
I think this kinda taste is very unique and rare in the whole world, but in Japan, there are only this kinda products and designs around us.
Do you understand how hard to keep the motivation to be a good designer in Japan? hehe

My man Mr. Harigai's creative farm called Adapter has launched a brand new web-magazine just this April!
The title is Public/image, and there are a lot of informations about Japanese art, design, events, music and the other movements, basically.
Mr. Harigai's design world is very sophisticated and urbane all the time. Also the informations are picked up by his precise point of view.
Why don't you check'em out and learn what's happening in Japan right now.

This website is very similar to Wii Kitty that I introduced before, but much more meaningless.

My man Toki reconstructed this website with Joshua Davis for clothes shop Beams! It's just launched today. Big up Toki!

Report: Google Doesn't Renew Google.de, Site Goes Down
It is very strange. Is this story true? Why they didn't notice that before?

This is the final day of my work this year. It was a very dramatic year and passed so quickly.
At last I've been able to feel very comfortable in Osaka. I totally like this town. There are a lot of very tasty food which is so cheap! Yum Yum... Of course there are a lot of very nice restaurants in Tokyo too, but if you wanna experience the same kinda things with Osaka, you gotta pay much more money than here.

By the way, I found such a very nice meaningless website called "Wii Kitten". Yeah, it's cute. But I need more explanation to understand why should those kittens had to be with the Wii controller. lol
Usually, in my job, I'm making some websites these are only for clients. So we have to concentrate deeply for making the concepts for every creativity. The cost for making those websites is paid by clients. And you know the cost is not small, so we have to be very serious to think about the concepts. (Of course there are many other reasons to be serious for my job, though.)
Well, what I wanna say is, I envy creators of that kinda websites which is so free, so fun and... very popular! lol
Boys be ambitious! Keep it real! Be free! Respect!

Other important meaningless websites links:
Digital Art at Loders School
Voice Training
Kojo Moe na Hibi blog
Masasuke
Mute-king no Buchikire Ongenshu
Komekami Bakuhatsu