I played with the photography and typography.
This is called “Identity”. I created this one as a memory of my son’s 5-6 year old. What he likes and what he says often during this age. Click the image to see a larger image.
I cut off the image and changed to Grayscale. Then I typed the words around the image.
I merged the layer, and changed the image from greyscale to CMYK for printing purposes, then applied Gradient Overlay Layer style.
I was born and brought up in Japan. I left there 20 years ago, but still I have special place for my home country Japan and its culture. I like subtle but detailed things that Japanese culture offer.
Packaging, folding papers… Origami is one of the traditional culture in Japan.
A4 Orikata is the website which displays one of the beautiful Japanese culture. If you click the second button on the left, you can see thumbnail images, if you click one of them, you can download the papers and how to fold it.
We use these small envelopes to place the money to give, or use as a letters.
I like this web design because it is simple and minimal but you can see the details, and this website is showing the beauty of Japanese culture.
This is my dog, called Beema.
Beema is 6 year old and he will turn to 7 in late April.
He is a Red Heeler with a stumpy tail. He has a very little tail. In Australia, some people used to cut working dogs tails for some reasons. It is not allowed now.
Beema’s tail was never cut and he was born with a very tiny tail.
We cannot see him wagging his tail, but he smiles.
He loves chasing balls and swimming than eating. He loves beach so whenever we go to the beach, we take him. On the Gold Coast, there are some dog beaches, so we take him there.
I think that he can swim at least 20 meters. Once we were on the boat, and he tried to follow us. He had to go back to the bank after 10 meters swimming.
I took this photo on the Gold Coast beach. He looks so happy and he makes me so happy 
I love him.
I went to Japan last October. One of the things that I miss in Japan is Book Stores.
There are some big book stores and thousand different kind of books you can find there. I wish I could spend more time and more money there, but I had only limited time and money.
I would like to share the books which are related to design.
One of the books that I found useful was the book called “Flowers” by Haut Dessins and published by Soft Bank Creative.
It is very handy to have images that you can use for the work at hand, because it takes some time when you do hand drawing. It comes with a DVD and images are eps, jpg or png, so you can use them for web and prints.
In Brisbane, there are very limited book stores available and I have not seen these kind of material books as yet.
You can purchase the book through amazon Japan, but it cost a bit for shipping.
In Japan, Manga, Comic books are very popular.
When you visit Japan, you would be surprised how many comic books are available at the bookshop and how many people are reading comic books in Japan.
Many publisher launched “How to” books with Manga, because those type of the books are using more friendly approach than normal text books. It appears to me those books with Manga can describe more details and help to understand the contents.
For some people like me, the news about Politics, or International affairs are little bit difficult to understand. Now an Internet News Manga Website was launched in Japan. I have read a couple of news and I was amazed how easy to understand than reading texts news. It may not be suitable for the news headlines, because it does not give you a strong impact that some photographic images do, however it is easy to grasp the contents.
The one that I have downloaded from the web site is a story about the Brisbane Flood. It is surely easy to understand and help the readers to remember what is going on visually, I think.
I realised that there are more Manga workshop are held in Brisbane where I live. One day, we may see the similar thing in Australia?
Have a look at the news here http://newsmanga.com
This rose was in my garden. It had a beautiful sweet aroma.
I took this photo with my compact camera – Fuji Finepix.
The image is out of focus. However, I thought this blurry image shows soft and warm feeling.
I enhanced the image with changing the tone and level.
I am thinking of making Valentine’s Card with this image.
Thank you
Hi, I would like to share an idea of Light arts with sparkles.
I have been trying and comparing the effects of the Light Arts with using different kind of lights. I think that the Sparkles are the best so far.
I will introduce you different type of lights what I have used in the past in the near future.
You do not have to have a special camera to achieve this light art.
Camera: Fuji Film FinePix F70 (Compact Camera)
Camera Setting: Manual Setting – Speed – Slowest with my camera 8 sec. F6.4.
Enjoy!
I love frangipani. I love the flower, I love its perfume, and I love the colour.
This frangipani is called Apricot.
When the flower starts blooming in November, I realise that my son’s birthday is coming.
