Some of you have noticed the stealth upgrade I did to the site last night. The green had been there for way too long (since November 2006, actually), and I was really looking for a change. I pretty much re-did the site last Sunday morning, when I woke up and had the idea for the new look, and I’ve just been tweaking things here and there since. Let me know if you encounter any problems or weirdness anywhere.
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Jean Snow lives and breathes design, pop culture, and gaming in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.
Jean Snow is a daily contributor to Wired magazine's game blog, Game|Life, covering game news from Japan and beyond.
Arcade Mania is currently on sale through Amazon Japan, with the same edition available for pre-order on Amazon US (to be released January, 2009).
Tokyolife: Art and Design covers Tokyo's cultural output of the past few years, covering the works of over 80 influential creatives. Jean Snow provided coordination assistance.
The Superfuture Superguides are a series of PDF travel guides to some of your favorites cities, updated monthly, and obsessively compiling the best places to shop, eat, and drink. The Tokyo guide is edited by Jean Snow.
He is also the design/culture editor at Neojaponisme, a web journal covering social and cultural aspects of Japan. Read the manifesto, by founder and chief editor W. David Marx, here.
PauseTalk is a regular series of events that take place at Cafe Pause on the first Monday of every month, with a start time of 20:00. The idea is to create a forum where Tokyo-based creatives can get together and discuss their own projects, as well as cultural currents of the city. The next edition happens October 6.
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At first I think there was some strange yellow color, but now it seems to be the default Wordpress theme? Are you still working on it?
Yeah, I don’t know what happened. I got back home and someone told me it was back to the default WP theme. I went and changed it back. I really have no idea how somthing like that could happen (I’m the only one who should have access to the admin).
It looks nice!
now you have to change your little URL bar icon thing to match! it’s still green.
Oh, that’s right, completely forgot about that!
Like the ‘realign’ you have did :-) Nice work!
I have did a realign! I have did many things!
Please don’t take this as negative, I love your blog and read it daily; but, I don’t like the new look. The yellow is ok, and I can understand the desire to change colors, but, the new layout seems to lose function. In your previous layout, each section had it’s own prominence. But now, everything just blurs together a bit. Admittedly, I do read it through Google Reader most of the time, but, wanted to give you my own honest feedback.
Thanks, I actually really appreciate getting feedback like that. I plan on writing a post to explain my thinking behind the re-design. But part of it was that I was going for a paper/newspaper kind of feel.
I like the yellow! Good job! :)
kinda agree with kris, simplicity is a good way to go, but even in a newspaper there’s a visual hierarchy in terms of what information is important.. i don’t really find it that clear here.
but i’ve actually always wanted to see the man who writes about design + art daily have a go himself. ;P
keep it up.
I’ve been getting a lot of 503 errors since you’ve updated…not sure why but has been happening from home and work
That must mean my host is experiencing some problems server-side.
Hey, just noticed the new nameplate. Nice typeface. The name’s not jumping to mind, but it’s a good match.
Now you just need to get Ian to teach you how he did the titling on Meta no Tame so you can use the same font for all your headings! (actually a secret I’ve been curious about since I first saw it…)
Because I’m not really digging the font you’ve got there at the moment… it just seems to sit too broadly somehow.
The new logo is courtesy of Chris and Paul at AQ. (Thanks, guys!) The font used is Klavika.
Nice, I like the title too! Gives your site more identity.
I was one who never used the links on the top, so I’m glad to see the categories on the right and everything condensed vertically. The “JeanSnow” logo I noticed right away when it went up. I like it. I always liked the green. I think I’d like the yellow better if you had that two tone thing going on as you’d had before with the first letter being a darker hue. It was kind of your signature, but may have been a hassle to do. I like things tight, but I think the overlapping of the descenders into the next line of the headers could be improved. Good job Jean!