Hawken King » Design

yenbar

seijin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:57:56 +0000

Very simple website for a local bar, I was paid in beer. Works on iOS too.

The concept was to make a website that just had a map and the basic info one might need. Maps on bar / restaurant websites are notoriously bad, so this uses googlemaps integration.

yenbar.jp

Tilterpillar website

seijin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:54:33 +0000

website for my latest game Tilterpillar!

Dadako.com 2011

seijin — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:12:12 +0000

2011 version of dadako.com

Tokyo Proofreading

seijin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:24:16 +0000

Branding and website templates for Tokyo Proofreading, subcontracted through Bento Graphics

facemakr homepage

seijin — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:29:44 +0000

The standard homepage for Facemakr (released in 2010), app also by Hawken King.

Changes from time to time for special promotions and so on.

App is available on the app store

RedBull Me

seijin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:58:25 +0000

Worked on the layout and illustration for this custom face-building for my good friends at USN

Check it out here: RedBull Me

dadako.com 2010

seijin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:41:45 +0000

2010 version of dadako.com

Edvec Support site

seijin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:26:34 +0000

Site (design) template I did for Edvec Japan.

Facemakr Stage 1

seijin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:06:30 +0000

Friday bore the fruits of my personal project; facemakr. An online service that creates a personalised illustration of your face for use on social networking sites.

About 3 months passed before I could get this project finished, after a few hours here and many hours there, it was finally done. A lot of the main text on the site are images, I did this to make the site look pretty on windows, where fonts are not rendered so smoothly. However, upon checking the source code of the site, can see that actually the text really is there – it’s replaced with a trick – this means that screen readers and google can still get on with the site.

Ramping up the campaigns for traffic and customers, the site also runs in both English and Japanese.

Come have a look: facemakr

Meat & Wool New Zealand Redux

seijin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:51:40 +0000

Meat & Wool New Zealand were looking to re-fresh their website, and rely on the great team at Eat Creative to make that wish a reality. The new website is born!

Taking a “from the ground up” approach and realising that now the brand has been furthered in the Japanese territory, it was time to evaluate the existing website (which I built a couple of years back).

While browsing some of the new photography, I came to think it would be nice to have these beautiful large pictures in the background instead of pictures contained inside the design — kind of inside-out design if you will. This is the real base for the overall site, from the information pages to the recipes right down to the terms and conditions pages. The rest of the design flowed from this simple choice — based on our “house” grid.

This redux also called for a new way to run the site, so we chose drupal as the final base. Working with this structure has allowed us to add features we would otherwise think twice about including. So far it’s been a pleasure, thanks to the wizardry of Erik Johansson.

Now back by a cookery campaign for it’s launch on all the major Japanese cookery websites, we are keeping our fingers crossed for a definite hit.

So if you can read Japanese, and like beef or webdesign, come have a look!

New Zealand Meat & Wool( J )