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The Importance of Logos for New Businesses
When asked “are logos really that important?”, maybe we can answer…
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Choices, choices, choices
AQ visits Open Network Lab for another UX design mentoring session.
Earlier this Year
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AQ and Open Network Lab to lift User Experience quality for Tokyo’s Startups
Announcing an official partnership with the seed acceleration program ONLab.
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We’re looking for an interface designer to join AQ.
Inquire within.
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Event Report: The New Context Conference 2011 Fall
Two days of Lean Startup Bootcamp, here in Tokyo.
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AQ visits Open Network Lab for a UX Cram Session
An afternoon of sketching, copywriting and interaction design with four startups from Tokyo's premier incubator.
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How Responsive Web Design becomes Responsive Web Publishing
Responsive web design must start with content and context, not devices. Here are some ideas how.
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Subject lines from Barack Obama’s email newsletter are written for forwarding.
Observing the bizarre poetry of email marketing
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What we can learn about service design from Google+
How Google used language and interaction design to define its new social networking service
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Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami Creative Industry Survey Results
The experience of 491 of Tokyo's creative professionals, in a few numbers
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Summer Adventures in Echigo Tsumari
The AQ Echigo Tsumari team takes a two-day business trip up north.
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Interview: Takram and the Muji Notebook app
A chat with Kinya Tagawa and Kotaro Watanabe of Takram about the process of working on Muji’s Notebook app
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Collaboration: Metallic Printing with Roland
Report on our metallic printing experiments with Roland
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Map Kit for 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami
Download our CC licensed map kit. We gathered basic data that helped us understand the scale of the event.
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Infographics Roundup: 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami
Creative professionals around the world trying to make sense of the Tohoku Earthquake.
Archive
2010
Translating Ideas: Using Concept as a Project Anchor
AQ event report: Re-thinking Museums
Creating a “Comfortably Bilingual” Talk Event (Part One)
Launch! iPhone app “MuPon” is out.
Event wrapup: Adam Greenfield’s “Becoming Real”
Gap’s Barcode Member Drive: Connecting physical stores and online services
Event: Oct 29th – for anyone who’s ever tried to Make Something Happen
New Office: Ladder Shelves
In the magazine "Web Designing"
TAB Talks: Tweeting Art Setouchi
Art Beat iPhone apps
2009
Meiji Redesigns, Replaces Legendary Wordmark
AQ Field Trip: Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial
"If you’ve worked on two records a year and they both suck, then you’ve blown a year"
Launched: New Website for The Plant
Tokyo Art Map featured in "Layouts for Catalogs and Pamphlets"
Greetings from Paris
Milestones and Google Analytics
Art Maps Around The World – Part 1: Tokyo
New Project Launch: ASICS UK
Happy New Year from AQ!
2008
Design localization Google’s home page in Asia
Web Directions East
Setouchi International Art Festival
Summer Roundup
Design Graveyard: Pixeltype Edition
New Office
Party: Hitotoki Hitoban
2007
Six Recipe Sites: Taste-tested
CBC-net Interview: Khoi Vinh
Kurikku – TAB 3rd Anniversary Flyer
Boris Yeltsin, Orphan Annie and the Port Authority
The Case for New Type
New Article on CBCnet
Facetime 6: Type Designer Nikola Djurek on Amalia
Facetime 5: Type Designers Kai Oetzbach and Natascha Dell on Jenny
Facetime 4: Type Designer Chester Jenkins on Galaxie Polaris
Hitotoki NYC
Facetime 3: Type Designer Jarno Lukkarila on Xtra Sans
Facetime 2: Type Designer Jeremy Tankard on Bliss
Facetime 1: Type Designer Eric Olson on Klavika
The New TABlog
Pecha Kucha Nights: Guide to Better Presentations Skills
Goodbye Madame Butterfly
Hitotoki in Japanese: Stories Wanted
Introducing Hitotoki
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