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Hawken King is a designer and illustrator living and working Tokyo. He has been keeping and online journal since 1999 – this is it.
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Compatible with iPad logo
Published 19th of Mar, 2010. Stored under ideas
Couldn’t find one so I made one. Please use freely. Cite me at this URL if you are feeling generous.
(click on the image above to download a vector EPS)
CS4 looms; my favourite quotes from "dear adobe"
Published 24th of Sep, 2008. Stored under ideas
With the imminent release of CS4, I take a look at the funny side of the long requested features from users of Adobe products.
Recently I found Dear Adobe. It was such a relief to find that there are literally thousands of other disgruntled creatives that work in the print and web industry that have also found this site – posing questions to adobe. Whether Adobe reads and acts upon these requests is another thing.
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top11 missing mail features for iPhone! *update*
Published 6th of Aug, 2008. Stored under ideas
As we use e-mail more than SMS here in Japan, I have a look at what could be changed for the Japanese device, by means of a software update. This is basically my wish list for this already amazing device. Practically all of the wished for features listed are apparent on a normal everyday Japanese phone.
iPhone homebrew
Published 13th of Jun, 2008. Stored under ideas
Now that the iPhone is finally hitting Japan, and I’ve finally upgraded to Leopard, I’m looking for a pro-active programmer(s) to work with me on game development!
Requirements are fairly simple, you just need to be super interested in making games for the iPhone with ample games programming experience.
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evoloution of currency fonts?
Published 25th of Feb, 2008. Stored under ideas
I once read somewhere that all the best design is refined by the end user. Take greengrocers for example, they have to use currency symbols and measurement symbols every day. No computers, keyboards or pda’s. Just a scrap of paper and a pencil.
What ever happened to the double strike on currency symbols?
Wordpress hax. Authors page & individual post styling.
Published 22nd of Aug, 2007. Stored under ideas
Bonus: limiting post count on pages
Wordpress, however easy it is on the mind for non coders like me, is always going to come up short on the goods when turning a clients idea into reality. This article isn’t for those proficient in PHP to be honest. If you know PHP, you are well equipped to make wordpress do whatever you pretty much damn well like. If you like your full head of hair (and don’t fancy trading your design skills for learning PHP) the following may well help you keep it: Read More
Blu-Ray Apple
Published 15th of Mar, 2007. Stored under ideas
Long awaited next mac mini, and how it may use blu-ray drives.
Apple TV is dead before it even left the shelf
Apple TV has arrived, but it has a few flaws. These flaws are virtually un-noticable in the current technology market.
The device will only support 720p HD at the maximum, whereas Blu-ray is a true full HD format, supporting upto 1080p. The difference being? 1080p is the highest standard currently available on the consumer market, with prices tumbling on FullHD televisions by the minute, 1080p will soon be the desired format, this is where Blu-ray fits in neatly. A graph showing 1080p and 720p conparisons can be found here. Read More
NDS homebrew with passcard3 & M3Perfect
Published 20th of Feb, 2007. Stored under diary, ideas
I live out here in Tokyo, and despite what you might imagine, it is very hard to get ahold of homebrew kit out here. There are some dodgy shops here and there, but often they are geeky and un-comunicative about what they sell due to legal reasons.
So, out for a walk trying to find a dreamcast with my friend in Akihabara last weekend, I spotted a shelf full of NDS “stuff”.
I enquired to the geeks behind the counter about what hardware I need but they told me that they cannot give me any information about how it all works! They even told me that even if I do buy any of the kit I can’t take it back or have a receipt! Read More
moan 2007
Published 15th of Feb, 2007. Stored under ideas
For all the benefits my Mac has brought me, there are still some improvements to be made. Here’s a list of features I have sent to Apple and other companies (Adobe) this year, in some kind of vain and possibly pointless hope that they may fix for the insane month of March. Where 2007 becomes “year of the Mac”: Read More
Apple & Ikea
Published 19th of Jan, 2007. Stored under ideas
Marriage made in heaven?
Apple sells it’s products from it’s website. Apple sells products from it’s flagship inner-city stores and selected retailers. Is that really enough? Read More
iPhone Mini
Published 11th of Jan, 2007. Stored under ideas
Unless you have been living under a rock, you will know that Apple Inc. released details of it’s new iPhone at the start of this week. It is rather interesting, and well worth checking out http://www.apple.com/iphone/
So I got thinking over lunch with fellow “planters”; “what would make an iPhone mini?”. Read More
buying a new PC for 2007? read on…
Published 3rd of Jan, 2007. Stored under ideas
Often friends and family come up to me asking what computer they should buy, what type of laptop is best, how much ram and so on. Read More
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