Grab bag: Quirky Japanese products, media and art

Visual calendar, printed on female body parts (Believe me, it’s more tasteful than it sounds). Pointillism in graffiti. Beautiful stop-motion firefly photography. DIY Hello Kitty sandwiches.  Manga (Japanese comics) on telecommunication brand drama. Excerpts from manga I like (Solanin and Nineteen Twenty-One), as I try to clean up my tabs. 1.  Nyotai-Goyomi posted by AsiaJin More … Read more

The most arresting commercial I’ve seen, of late: Sony Bravia ‘Bouncy Balls’

* my heart bleeds * It’s that beautiful. Note: I am a bit biased, because I have a special place in my heart just for bouncy balls. There was a time when I used to always have one with me wherever I went.  I was 25, then. Damn it, I don’t have a category for … Read more

Cute UX detail: Facebook’s new icon

Facebook, you do not fail to spark some awe in me when you come up with these little details that don’t seem like much… But I can imagine how much thought and design thinking it took to come up with such an interesting, pleasing icon that makes sense once you hover your cursor over it.

Semi-work: 7 bits of Web design inspiration

Nike Corporate Site

1. The Verge  2. hardgraft  3.  Remedy Quarterly’s remedy page  4. Nike’s delineation of its consumer and business sites  5. Foodspotting  6. FontShop’s Education page  7.  An extra item for digital marketing strategy: Thought Catalog’s smart ad opportunity (Levi’s). And, in an upcoming post, the redesign of Fast Company’s family of sites. 1.  Oh, Verge. … Read more

Life advice all around.

To kick off the year. [I started this post in January. I don't know why I didn't post this 'till now. Maybe I was waiting for images to put in.] — First, for a dash of sarcasm, Thought Catalog’s “Let’s Stop Saying That We’re ‘Fine’“: “…Because if that had been the situation, I may have … Read more

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