Digital products & Design

Impressions about FLASH

I feel like it’s been ages since I left Japan, but finally the MA course started yesterday. I would like to write about it later, but anyway,I had to do “pre-induction” work so I had been struggling with FLASH recently. Well, when I was working in Japan, I had no time for creation and also I used to use very old version, so this impression may sound a bit stupid… but I’d write honestly. I think the process of optical disc authoring is the same, “What should do what, where” = the first logical design seems very important. I mean, […]

Digital products & Design, Life in London, TV&Films

BBC iPlayer, Sky News and London Paper

Because I don’t have my TV in my room, one of my concern was how I can get everyday information. I usually use BBC iPlayerand Sky News. Although I don’t remember how the previous BBC site was, I read an article saying their re-design was really successful. They are broadcasting their programmes of the past one week. But, perhaps because of the speed of the connection, usually it doesn’t connect to the site… Also, it seems some people argue about the traffic problem. On the Sky News, you can watch some 2~3mins news, but what I like about it is […]

Art&Exhibitions, Life in London

Digital Design Day

I went to Digital Design Week at Southbank Centre in London Design Festival. Well, I think the event was not so good… They had a seminar by apple talking about a workflow of digital design process, and a debate about new media by i-design. I was not afford to listen to i-design as it was 60 pounds, the apple’s talk was rather sales-talk to explain how easy exchanging data between process will be easy on mac, how easy managing digital assets, how good the interface of mac is, how you can work on broad cross media creation. (Well, it indeed […]

Diary, Digital products & Design

The fight against PIN

Well, this is not related to London, but… Since I came here, I needed to open new accounts a lot such as bank or mobile. The problem is always password or PIN. I can’t remember which one was for what, and I got locked out from the online banking a few days ago, and from my mobile as well. For online banking, I need ID number and PIN as well as “memorable word”, and have to type them all the time to log in. But they set lots of rules such as “within *** words” or type of characters or […]

Art&Exhibitions, Diary, Life in London

Upon the Thames

I like walking along the Thames. I think, around Westminster is always full of tourist, but around Design Museum which located near to Tower Hill is rather less people and good place to relax. If the weather is good, Tower Bridge looks amazing as well. The museums on Japanese tour guidebook are usually something focus on fine arts, but Design Museum handles rather contemporary designing including commercial arts, and it’s good for me to study. The building is not so big, but I like it as well. The museum shop inside it has lots of interesting books. I got an […]

Theatre

The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black, which has been played for 19 years at the Fortune Theatre in London. The drama was exported to Japan in 1992, directed by Robin Herford, and have been played some times for years. Hearing that “Japanised” version would be re-imported to the Fortune Theatre as “Japanese Week”, I couldn’t help but buying the tickets without any thoughts. The actors are Takaya Kawakami and Haruhiko Saito. Sounds like it is a horror story…but no any other information. But isn’t it so interesting that a classic drama which was born in England went to Japan and come back […]