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05/11/2005: "Web design trends"
music: Gackt - EMU ~for my dear~
mood: quite fine

As for my work, yesterday I was asked to make a new design for some announcements made in fabric for the expositions in my college. And as you work even though you aren't completely sure you can do some things you ought to say "yes" or you are gonna say "good bye", then you can only say "I'll do it".
Poor thing I haven't experimented my design skills since a long time ago due to work, college and more work and more college. I am into a research of new design trends so I found those good 3 links that can be helpful:

Implementing a New Visual Design - A Power Point file about Trends in Web Design, useful, practic, and more than anything smart.
Maki is not a nameless cat - Site about design trends, check out the menu on the right.
Web Standards Award - Your time to be updated.

I know the design should change whether it's for web or something that's going to be printed out in fabric for an exposition or even a poster... But... Point is that webdesign carries the two main important things that all design should carry, visual appeal that calls your interest and content that makes your work be useful.

That's all for today... I am back to work. *I gotta fix this layout to talk about design, toki, toki, toki, duh...*

shirou june @ data

e-mail <agata_june@yahoo.com>
msn <shirou_june@hotmail.com>
location <Bolivia>
age <22>
zodiac <Virgo>
occupation <Vampire, designer, publicist>
band <Siam Shade>
jrocker <Imamura Hideki - x Siam Shade, ACID vo.>
image song <Life - Siam Shade>
character <Yuzuriha Nekoi [X 1999]>
current mood <>
I am I <Female [just in case you haven't figured it out yet]. Web-designer. Wizard. College Student. Publicist. Dreamer. Duelist. Loves anime & manga. Has an obsession with JRock. Specially Siam Shade [the best JRock band her ears have ever listen to]. Speaks spanish, that's why her english [and the other languages she tries to speak] s---!>
behind Siam Shade listens to <JRock {Gackt C. Glay. Takui. Janne da Arc. ACID. L'Arc~en~Ciel. Luna Sea. X-Japan. Lareine. B'z. Yumiko Kozaka}
As much as it seems not all in her life is JRock...
JPop {Maaya Sakamoto. Access. TMR}
KPop {Ahn-Jae Wook. SES. TVQX}>
also hears a few of more 'normal' music
<Juanes. La Oreja de Van Gogh. La Ley>

anime @ manga

anime <Tekkaman Blade>
manga <Elementalors>
fanatism <X 1999>
addiction <Gravitation>
styles <shounen, dark, shounen ai>
seiyuus <Tomokazu Seki, Hikaru Midorikawa and Megumi Hayashibara>
respects <Hayao Miyasaki. Clamp. Shoji Kawamori. Spiral ~suiri no hizuna~. Gravitation's character designer [whoever he/she is] and all the staff involved in the anime series, the manga, the music and everything related to it! [excepting remix]>

web @ sites

<shiroi co> <-legacy> <tek setter>
<siam shade - everlasting> <j·on·air>
<shirou june's online journal>

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BEAUTIFUL DREAMER <version4.0>
Suu & Kazuhiko [Clover]

related <Words all around related to Clamp's CLOVER manga. Also, title and signature belong to Glay - BEAUTIFUL DREAMER amazing song. Then... "tashika ni ima hi ga tomoru... tashika ni ima!" means "just now a light was lit... just now~" that belongs to the BEAUTIFUL DREAMER lyrics.
Who's the Beautiful Dreamer? err... Suu might be [stop looking at me! -_-] I only thought that the title suited perfect the design, besides I love this song! As I always say: 'Great Glay', they always came up with melodies that light up your day! [no matter you can't understand the lyrics *cof*] The song is a must hear, accompanied with great violonchelos and violins. Music & Lyrics by Takuro. I better stop before this starts looking like a review.
Even I found the english translation to the lyrics I can hardly understand the meaning of the song itself... as you read it this is the story of a person enjoying every day and after that... your are suddenly told another story that doesn't seem to fit in the lyrics, this is the story behind him, the past that is present in every day and forever will be here. His decision was to forget about it all and choosed to live the day, that's leaving all behind, living present, because Memories can't come back, so don't be tricked by the dreams and live, ~it's all to become beautiful~
it says... Just gorgeous, a complete story told in few sentences... [mmhhh... doesn't it sound like Rurouni Kenshin? XD] Anyway, that's the conclusion I reached about, after reading and hearing to it 100 times... Confusing... don't understand it at all... well, yes... anyhow I love it. Now is a complete review v.vU
Yeah... I know... I know... too much green due to 200clover... Hey, look! I made Suu smile ^^ Just basic editing skills to not see her sad as in the original image... the wing little effect is really cool also, I always like to try new things>

final @ note

This log runs trough a wonderful CGI engine:
<Greymatter>. That makes all my site coustomizable ^_^ and leaves all the power at my hands! The whole site is gently hosted at
<Netfirms Free Web Hosting> who allows CGI. Thanks very much. The image is a scan of my Xmas present "Clover #2" (c) CLAMP. Image Editing & Page Design belong to <Shirou June>. No profit is being made out of this site.