CSS Reboot 2006 へのコメント

Waviaei Design ver.2 « Waviaei より

Waviaei Design ver.2 « Waviaei — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:31:18 +0000

[...] 事実、両サイトとも日本にインスピレーションを得、それを目指したデザインにしたとそれぞれコメントしてくれました。 [...]

Stefan より

Stefan — Tue, 30 May 2006 16:54:21 +0000

It’s hand-drawn in Illustrator CS2 with the meshtool, five hours work.

Toru より

Toru — Tue, 30 May 2006 08:15:37 +0000

Stefan,
I very much like that bamboo pic !

Stefan より

Stefan — Tue, 30 May 2006 06:59:30 +0000

Thank you for your review of my website.
It’s a site about Bujinkan Ninpô, the remaining heritage of the japanese martial art ninjutsu. It’s current grandmaster (soke) is Masaaki Hatsumi from Noda, Japan.

Toru より

Toru — Sun, 07 May 2006 16:36:15 +0000

I won’t use it as is, because it feels too formal. It will also depends on whether I can come up with a decent logo design from it too

Just came across my mind, Mitsubishi (the car maker)’s three diamonds logo is based on two kamons. Interesting isn’t it ?

I made up “Waviaei” myself. “Wa” is 和, which you might know that it is often associated to describe Japanese things or feelings. “via” is an english word, as in “I went to Berlin via Rome”. “ei” is 英, which is often associated to describe English, or GB, or UK. Eigo(英語) means English, Eikoku(英国) means GB or UK.

I have strong ties, affinity, in Japan and England. So I thought hard to come up with short word that can describe myself, and can actually get a domain.

Yoram より

Yoram — Sun, 07 May 2006 15:24:57 +0000

wow! impressive. Maybe it’s really a good idea to use it for your site — depends on how close you are with your family. Before I forget it: what’s the meaning of «waviaei»?

Toru より

Toru — Sun, 07 May 2006 14:22:15 +0000

Its called maru-ni-tachiomodaka(丸に立ち沢瀉), which look something like this (the top one). It means "standing omodaka inside a circle". Omodaka is a plant which looks like this, and there are lots of kamon variations based on omokada. I belive its called Arrowhead in english, gennus Sagittaria.

Yoram より

Yoram — Sun, 07 May 2006 11:52:17 +0000

Is it possible to take a look at your kamon (家紋)?

Toru より

Toru — Sun, 07 May 2006 10:59:02 +0000

Yoram,
Wow. Thanks for the details! There is our own mon, or kamon(家紋) as our family crest, but never thoght of using it like a website logo. I think I might play around with my own too.
Danke shon.

Yoram より

Yoram — Sat, 06 May 2006 13:21:15 +0000

[…] the logo looks like three cherry blossoms, with Mt. Fuji on the background […]

That’s absolutely correct. I have a very strong affinity to japan — and for that: I like very much japanese design. Three years ago I wanted to create a unique emblem for me and my family — just before my daughter was born — so I decided to make a mon ( 紋 ). Something that stays forever in my family. Something that my daughter will keep — and of course her children too. My family name «Blumenberg» means something like flower mountain or «hill of flowers». I tried to translate that into japanese and choose the variant hanatake ( 花岳 ) — well, i had a little help from a japanese friend after I found some ways trough my japanese/german dictionaries.

After all and a lot of sketches I designed what you called «three cherry blossoms, with Mt. Fuji on the background» .

That was just one little story where my «connection» to japan comes from or better: why my design goes into the japanese direction.

The CSS Reboot logo was just a quick button-logo to mark the site with something like a (postage) stamp.

If you’re interested in my forthcoming projects just send me an e-mail and I will put you on my newsletter address book.

Anyway: thanks a lot for writing about my re-designed site — and also for translating it into english. 有難う。