CREATE "USABLE" WEBSITE - Practical WEB usability -

This book teaches important know-how on how to create comfortable and user-friendly website, focusing on layout design and effective visuals. This book contains many images, commentaries, and valuable examples which are absolutely imperative for Web designers.

Author: Kenji Abe / Supervising editor: Yuko Ishida 　
Price: 2,400 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-688-3 )
Format: 250 x 184mm, 240 ( Full color ) Soft cover with Jacket
Language: Japanese / Release date: 16th DEC 2009

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ROYALITY FREE ! 123 Background Motion Pictures

This book contains 123 stock footage for making video.
All data is on attached DVD-ROM with MP4 and AVI, and they are completely royalty Free! Perfect for people who create and edit video, and very useful for many occasions such as video-sharing, wedding movie, and presentation, etc.

Author:ES...(Morojun)
Price: 2,800 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-693-7 )
Format: 182 x 230mm, 176 ( Full color ) Soft cover with jacket
Language: Japanese / Relaese date: 16th DEC 2009
Include DVD-ROM ( MP4: H264 720 x 540 fps30 / AVI: DV-NTSC 720 x 480 fps30 ) 　

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WE LOVE ARTISTS - Artists In Residencies around the world -

The artists-in-residence has been producing many master artists such as from Gauguin, Donald Judd, Makoto Aida, and Takashi Murakami.

This visual book introduces apx.90 artists-in-residences (so-called AIR) around the world, and more than 100 artists from there.Moreover, this book has the information of 520 artists-in-residences around the world, and very useful information of their detailed profile and laterst information.

Including special Interviews: Makoto Aida (Artist), Mario A.Caro (Director of Res Artis), Fumio Nanjo (Director of Mori Art Museum), Zhen Weimin (Director of DDM Warehouse), Stuart Bastik (Artist & Director of ART GENE), Manuel Tardits (Architect "Mikan").

Price: 3,800 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-669-2 )
Format: 265 x 185 mm, 384 ( Full color ) Soft cover with Jacket
Language: English-Japanese Bilingual / Release date: 16th DEC 2009

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KANJI POWER!

The Japanese calligraphy artist Souun Takeda is the center of public attention in Japan. His unique, dynamic calligraphies transmit the visual appeals of kanji (Chinese characters). His conversations with a linguist and foreigners on charms of kanji are also featured. It can be read as an introduction to kanji from an original viewpoint.

Author: Souun Takeda
Price: 1,800 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-661-6)
Format: 208 x 275 mm,128 (4C+1C) Soft cover with Jacket
Language: English-Japanese Bilingual / Release date: 9ｔｈ DEC 2009

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BUG BOOK Series: PRINTED MATTER IN FASHION

BUG BOOK Label releases highly practical, unique design catalogs and products with ingenious ideas are all limited editions. Highly recommended for professional graphic designers.

Each season, there is a plethora of printed material issued by fashion brands both boutique and international used for promoting their latest collections and ideas. These can be of very high quality and sophistication with intense dedication to detail and aesthetic. This reference book serves as an introduction to the fashion world's collection of printed material.

Price: 9,800 yen ; tax (ISBN 978-4-86100-676-0)
Format: 305 x 230 mm, 240 pages
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 27th October 2009


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IA100 - Information Architecture for User Experience Design

The first book of the genre in Japan gives a systematic overview on Information Architecture. It covers all the web- related topics from user research, contents analysis, and concept definition to actual planning: 100 essential topics about IA are featured in two pages each. The author Atsushi Hasegawa is the president of Concent, Inc. and a leading Information Architect in Japan. This book gives us a comprehensive overview of IA.

Author : Atsushi HASEGAWA, Ph.D.
Price: 3,200 yen + tax ( ISBN : 978-4-86100-577-0 )
Format : 254 x 216 mm, 224 pages (Full color) Softcover with Jacket
Language: Japanese / Release Date : 27th October 2009

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TRAVEL SCRAPBOOK

This book introduces a variety of collages using everyday materials such as used transportation tickets, pamphlets, maps, receipts and an empty bag of candy…etc. If you create collages using your pictures or materials you took or picked while you traveled, the collages will be your travel album as reminding you the whole memories of at the moment. This book features 10 groups of collage artists who create beautiful collages on the theme of "travel", introduces their creation processes and ideas while making their collages.

Author: Sachiko Harada, papakaori, Asako Masunouchi, Mariko Hirasawa, Bleu Blanche, Chalk, drop around, Anano, Asako Arita, Repit
Price: 1,600 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-682-1 )
Format: 212 × 148 mm, 112 pages ( Full Color ) Softcover with jacket

Language: Japanese / Release date: 10th October 2009

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WOMEN'S CREATOR'S DESK

This book introduce the 25 women active in the design and in the creation, and each attractive working space with their interviews and a lot of photos. You can discover their variety of ideas and their own skills in the many types' working spaces which are from personal atelier to company's office.

The author: Jyunko Yazaki
Price: 1,800 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-649-4 )
Format: 212 × 150 mm, 136 pages ( Full Color ) Softcover with jacket
Language: Japanese / Release date: 9th October 2009

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Effective Branding Strategy - Tone and Manner Theory

This book was written by a professional art director for non-professionals, to show you how to intellectually create design that works. Do you find design too difficult?
Do you want to take advantage of design strategically?
Then this book answers all your questions and helps you to achieve right design for your purpose.

Author: Tomoko Uji
Price: 1,800 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-632-6 )
Format: 128 x 188 mm, 256 pages ( 2C:128P / 4C:128P ), Softcover with Jacket

Language: Japanese ( Original ) / Taiwanese

Release date: 9th October 2009

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The Papaya and Sea in Summer

The spirited photographer Orie Ichihashi captured the beauty of Japanese summer and the beach in her photos taken in a seaside cottage in Kamakura. It's collaboration with the editor Kaori Akasawa, who has already published many commercially successful books. Summer days on the beach in the photos are nostalgic and familiar to us all.

Photographer: Orie Ichihashi / Editor: Kaori Akasawa
Price: 1980 yen + tax (ISBN: 978-4-86100-679-1)
Format: 182 x 242 mm, 128 pages (4C:112p/1C:16p) Softcover with Jacket
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 25th September 2009


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