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Event Report: The New Context Conference 2011 Fall

Two days of Lean Startup Bootcamp, here in Tokyo.

How Responsive Web Design becomes Responsive Web Publishing

Responsive web design must start with content and context, not devices. Here are some ideas how.

Subject lines from Barack Obama’s email newsletter are written for forwarding.

Observing the bizarre poetry of email marketing

What we can learn about service design from Google+

How Google used language and interaction design to define its new social networking service

Translating Ideas: Using Concept as a Project Anchor

The benefits and pitfalls of using concept statements to help your project get to launch.

New Office: Ladder Shelves

A DIY project from the new AQ office.

Meiji Redesigns, Replaces Legendary Wordmark

Does Meiji's milk bottle inspired new logo deliver?

AQ Field Trip: Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial

A photo travel log of our visit to Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial in Niigata with friends from Tokyo Art Beat and Birds Design.

"If you’ve worked on two records a year and they both suck, then you’ve blown a year"

Quotes from recording legend Steve Albini on his creative process

Launched: New Website for The Plant

A new website for our favorite Tokyo/Hangzhou-based web dev team

Tokyo Art Map featured in "Layouts for Catalogs and Pamphlets"

Our favorite free paper appeared as a case study for type, color and layout in a design look book.

Greetings from Paris

Milestones and Google Analytics

A feature request to add understanding to the bumps and dips in user metrics.

New Project Launch: ASICS UK

A new website for Japanese sportswear maker, that's as lightweight, sturdy and hi-tech as their shoes.

Design localization Google’s home page in Asia

In design, local tastes rule, even for Google.

Web Directions East

Tokyo will host Web Directions East, part of the Australian conference series covering everything from design to back-end development.

Setouchi International Art Festival

Revitalization through Art in the Seto Inland Sea

Summer Roundup

New Hitotoki cities, New Art Beat cities, new maps, new faces!

Design Graveyard: Pixeltype Edition

A free download from our drawer of unfinished projects.

New Office

After two years at the excellent Co-lab collaborative share studio for creators, making new friendships projects, AQ is moving to a new office.

Party: Hitotoki Hitoban

Join us Tuesday, Jan 29th at 7pm at The Pink Cow for a night of food, drinks, friends and stories!

Six Recipe Sites: Taste-tested

AQ loves to bake, steam, peel... and eat. We talk about food as much as design. What happens when the two meet?

CBC-net Interview: Khoi Vinh

Our interview of Khoi Vinh for design portal CBC-net, originally in Japanese, is now in English for all our single-byte readers.

Kurikku – TAB 3rd Anniversary Flyer

Join us at TAB's 3rd Anniversary in a few weeks for music, live VJ sets and roasted chestnuts!

Boris Yeltsin, Orphan Annie and the Port Authority

Hitotoki NYC launches with tales of celebrity sunburns and Vietnamese sandwiches.

The Case for New Type

A new article by Chris for CBC-net, "a creative portal site which gathers information of Art & Design from various fields".

New Article on CBCnet

"The Case for New Type" is Chris's latest article on CBC-net, one of the most read Japanese-language design sites.

Facetime 6: Type Designer Nikola Djurek on Amalia

Part Six in our series about new typography, we talk with Nikola Djurek about his typeface Amalia.

Facetime 5: Type Designers Kai Oetzbach and Natascha Dell on Jenny

Kai & Natascha talk about their typeface inspired by Jenson's Antiqua.

Facetime 4: Type Designer Chester Jenkins on Galaxie Polaris

In part four we interview Chester Jenkins about his typeface Galaxie Polaris.

Hitotoki NYC

Hitotoki is taking on the Big Apple this September. Send us your stories!

Facetime 3: Type Designer Jarno Lukkarila on Xtra Sans

Part Three in our series we interview Jarno Lukkarila about his typeface Xtra Sans.

Facetime 2: Type Designer Jeremy Tankard on Bliss

We interview Jeremy Tankard about Bliss, an English sans-serif in the tradition of Gill Sans.

Facetime 1: Type Designer Eric Olson on Klavika

Eric Olson talks about the geometry and rhythm of his typeface Klavika.

Goodbye Madame Butterfly

"Intimate portraits, revealing the struggles & complexities of modern Japanese women" from Chin Music Press

Introducing Hitotoki

Hitotoki.org traces a narrative map of cities through personal stories from curious outsiders, starting with six stories from Tokyo.

Wayfinding in Tokyo: Local Context and Direction Map Design

Approaches to the design of web-published direction maps, including Tokyo-specific considerations

Japanese Typography on the Web and Beyond: Part One

A primer in Japanese typographic design for the web

Japanese Typography on the Web and Beyond: Part Two

English text in Japanese design and Analphabetic glyphs available in Japanese typefaces