Dec 15, 2011

Interior Painting to Make a Comfortable Life









Changing colors of walls makes your room look much different.
This book introduces you how-to paint by yourself, and many examples of beautiful and stylish homes.
Today there are may high-quality paints which dry very quickly and eco-friendly without smelling.
Let's choose your favorite, relaxing, energetic colors and make a comfortable life and living.

Written and edited by Ayako Ota
Price: 1,800 Yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-782-8 )
Format: 148×210, 128 pages ( full color )
Release date: 20th December 2011

Nov 28, 2011

"QUOTATION" -Worldwide Creative Journal-


"QUOTATION "Worldwide creative journal introduces the forefront of creative activities from around the world - Internet and computer technology changed our "creative and design" environment widely. It allows everyone to "create and design" easily, and changed the values in people's mind at the same time. The "creative and design" conscious deeply get into people's lifestyles, not only designers and creators but also consumers and recipients. Now people have strong avidity for more fun, comfortable, and beautiful "creative and design". It beyond national boundaries, surpass borderline of genres, and become essential for present generation. This magazine introduces delights of creations, precious feeling of "creative and design" and the fascinations by voices in interviews and columns.


The latest issue No.12

SPECIAL TOPIC Creatives in London

SPECIAL INTERVIEW
- Paula Gerbase(1205 : Fashion Designer)
- Stefan Siegel(NOT JUST A LABEL : Creative Director)
- Kate Cox(Photographer)
- Conor Donlon(DONLON BOOKS : Owner)
- Andrew Ibi(THE CONVENIENCE STORE : Shopkeeper)
- Ben Benoliel(Photographer)
- Mind Design(Design Studio)
- OK-RM(Design Studio)
- Hato Press(Studio)

LONDON REPORT
- London College of Fashion [Professor Frances Corner]
- Frieze Art Fair 2011

JAPANESE CREATORS WHO ARE INFLUENCED BY LONDON
- Hasui Motohiko(Photographer)
- Bob Foundation(Creative Design Group)
- Kohzaki Kunio(Head Stylist)
- Keisuke Nakamura(Interior Designer/ Carpenter)
- Akane Utsunomiya(Akane Hasui:Fashion Designer)

PICK UP London's hottest places recommended by the creators in London

Produced by Gradation BluePrice: 580 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-808-5) / Format: 185 x 265 mm, 88 pages ( Full color ) Paperback / Language: Japanese ( partly English ) / Release date: 28th November 2011





-------------------"PLEASE ALSO CHECK"-------------------

No.11


SPECIAL INTERVIEWS:
- The head editor of Carson, a new magazine art directed by David Carson.
- Alex Prager, an American fashion photographer.
- Partizan,
the world famous production company

ARTICLE: Design History vol.1 -90's London Graphic Design

EVENT REPORT: Question A, the talk event produced by "QUOTATION"
- vol.1 "Studying Fashion Abroad"
YOSHIKAZU YAMAGATA(writtenafterwards) x YUIMA NAKAZATO(YUIMA NAKAZATO)
- vol.2 "How a magazine SPECTATOR is made and what their ideal media is"
TOSHIMITSU AONO ( the head editor of
SPECTATOR) x NORITERU MINEZAKI ( Art Director of SPECTATOR )

COLUMNS:
Creative information from cities in the world.
Satellite Voices / Allan Delorme / OLIVE / YASUHIKO ITO / SOJIRO KAMATANI / keisuke kanda / SHOGO KAWATA/ Qosmo / tackom / Coci la elle / Chika Higashi / Unusual Poster Series

Produced by Gradation BluePrice: 580 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-787-3) / Format: 185 x 265 mm, 80 pages ( Full color ) Paperback / Language: Japanese ( partly English ) / Release date: 24th June 2011


No.10
"This 10th volume presents; the special interviews of remarkable creative agencies & fashion designers, the latest information on creative spots in London, the history of the famous art school "Central Saint Martins", columns around the world."

CONTENTS:
- London's latest creative spots, from Eastend to Southeast, pick up new galleries and collectives!
- Focus on the remarkable creative agency "Bianca Redgrave & Co.", very active in a wide range of creative fields such as illustration, photography, art direction.
- What 'creative' means to the energetic designer J.W.Anderson?

REPORT: Memory of Art school: The history of "Central Saint Martins", where many famous designers are born.
COLUMNS: Creative information from cities in the world.
Estonian "HandMadeFont" / Belgian artist "Lawrence Malstaf" keeps beauty of a body / The exciting bookstore "OHWOW Store" / A competition of web fonts "Web Font Awards" is taking place /
"So Hashizume" cross-boundary design / " Techno-Shugei Club" technology + shugei (craft)!? A new style of making…and more !
Produced by Gradation Blue - Price: 580 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-733-6 ) Format: 185 x 265 mm, 88 pages ( Full color ) Paperback / Language: Japanese ( partly English ) / Release date: 27th February 2011


No.9


SPECIAL INTERVIEWS: The Inoue Brothers (Fashion Designer) / TOMOYUKI YONEZU (Graphic Designer)
SPECIAL FEATURES: The new and hot creative shop in London "In-cc"
DIALOGUE:BLINK of Imagination, Blink of Curiosity (KOUKI TANGE x YASUHIRO SUZUKi )
COLUMNS: Pick up : Creative information around the world / "Carsten Seiffarth" a curator who changed a big flush tank of Berlin to a gallery / "Oscar&Ewan" a new design from London / "Cafe Royal Books" Zine from London / The 20th anniversary of german font brand "FontShop(FontFont)" / "Library Man", high quality photography book from Stockholm…and more !
Produced by Gradation Blue - Price: 580 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-755-2 ) Format: 185 x 265 mm, 80 pages ( Full color ) Paperback / Language: Japanese ( partly English ) / Release date: 25th October 2010


No.8

"The cutting edge artists from London and Antwerp", "The significant changes in creative fields"

SPECIAL INTERVIEWS: "The cutting edge artists from London and Antwerp"
Wendy Bevan (Photographer) / Shelley Durkan (Casting Director team) / Christopher Shannon (Fashion designer) / TOM TOSSEYN (Graphic designer or Typography involved)
LONG INTERVIEWS: "The significant changes in creative fields -Young artists start for the future"
WOW ( Visual design studio ) / Tavito Nanao (Singer-Songwriter) / AR 3 Bros ( Creative unit ) / Yoshikazu Yamagata - writtenafterwards ( Fashion designer )
COLUMNS: "Creative scoop from cities in the world -London, Berlin, Tokyo, New York...etc"...and more
Produced by Gradation Blue - Price: 580 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-730-9 ) Format: 185 x 265 mm, 88 pages ( Full color ) Paperback / Language: Japanese ( partly English ) / Release date: 27th July 2010


No.7

"Gifted Creatives in the Fashion Industry"

INTERVIEWS:
Daniel Riera / Gary Card / Laura Rule / Martine Sitbon / Jerome Rigaud
COLUMNS: "Adam de Cruz"The most attention Make Up Artist in London / Unique and original project by "BOW" / "Undergrowth" playful mind brings forth sexy magic / "POTTO" reativeness from everyday life / NPO "SOTA" Fonts will save the world ? / Director "Chris Cairns" holographic performance from UK ...and more
Produced by Gradation Blue - Price: 580 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-722-4 ) Format: 185 x 265 mm, 88 pages ( Full color ) Paperback / Language: Japanese / Release date: 27th April 2010


No.6
"NORDIC CULTURE NOW - Acne, MoonspoonSaloon, Jonny Johansson, Norwegian Rain, Tal R, KASINO A4, and more"

INTERVIEWS:AI WEI WEI / Damir Doma / Designers Against AIDS
THE LATEST CREATIVE NEWS:"galaxxxy" take the present into making of clothes / Graphic Novel rose up from the comedic daily living in Netherlands / Wallpaper’s first store in Milan / “mash up” from the AR3 Brothers / Typekit revolutionize typography on web design...and more.
INFOMATION&NEWS: Takeshi Nakamura (CAVIA) "Creative circumstance in motion graphics" / The chief editor of Hint Magazine / LeeCarter …and more
Produced by Gradation Blue - Price: 580 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-711-8 ) Format: 182 x 250 mm, 88 pages ( Full color ) Paperback, Language: 70% Japanese & 30% English / Release date: 25th January 2010


No.5
"Creative scenes in Asian cities", "Products by designer and artists"

INTERVIEWS: Jarno Kettunen / Julia Muggenburg of Belmacz
COLUMNS:
Mysterious and tricky hair making by "Mika+CHISHIN" / The fantastic world "Helen Musselwhite" / The apartment hotel in Berlin "St.Oberholz Gasthof"...and more
Produced by Gradation Blue - Price: 580 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-696-8 ) Format: 185 x 265 mm, 88 pages ( Full color ) Paperback / Language: Japanese / Release date: 27th Oct 2009


No.4
"10 internationally-active artists in Japan"
"The front-line of creative activities, the hot artists and places in Berlin"

INTERVIEWS: Dylan Fracareta (PIN-UP/Art Director) / Dan Szor (SUPERSUPER/Art Director) / Martin Creed (Artist)
COLUMNS: "GIFTED"charity Art Auction (London) / "Thomas Voorn"Graffiti clothe?! (Rotterdam) / "DOSSIER" visual journal magazine from N.Y.,...and more
Produced by Gradation Blue
- Price: 580 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-680-7 ) Format: 185 x 265 mm, 96 pages ( Full color ) Paperback / Language: Japanese / Release date: 23th Jul 2009


No.3
"The latest scene on Design and Art Agencies", "The world's art directors active in fashion scenes"

INTERVIEWS:
PATRICK LI from LI,INC.(N.Y.) / Homework (Copenhagen) / GERARD SAINT from BIG ACTIVE (London) / MAGICAL, ARTROOM.(Tokyo)
COLUMNS: "Airside" Eco-activity by a design company / "Colophon2009" International Magazine Symposium (Luxembourg) / "Woods & Woods" (Singapore) ...and more
Produced by Gradation Blue - Price: 580 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-657-9 ) Format: 185 x 265 mm, 88 pages ( Full color ) Paperback / Language: Japanese / Release date: 25th April 2009


No.2

"The latest news of creative movements in London" - graphics, fashion, art, gallery, media and more -

INTERVIEWS: SHOWstudio "The creations by Peter De Potter"
COLUMNS: "Hot topics from Tokyo, Paris, Amsterdam, N.Y. and Berlin. "The great selections from world's hot shops, and The bestsellers from world's bookstores ...and more
Produced by Gradation Blue
- Price: 580 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-630-2 ) Format: 185 x 265 mm, 88 pages ( Full color ) Paperback / Language: Japanese / Release date: 24th Jan 2009


No.1
"100 keywords of the forefront of creative activities of the world"

INTERVIEWS: TOMATO "Differences of Design between Tokyo & London"
COLUMNS: The front-line of creative movement from Tokyo, Paris, London, N.Y., Amsterdam, and Wien, etc.
Produced by Gradation Blue - Price: 580 yen + tax ( ISBN 978-4-86100-614-2 ) Format: 185 x 265 mm, 80 pages ( Full color ) Paperback / Language: Japanese / Release date: 27th Oct 2009


Please contact our distributors to find out your nearest bookstore carries the magazines.

Nov 16, 2011

BUG BOOK Series: SMALL & EYE CATCHING GRAPHICS - Trade Edition






This book introduces small and eye catching graphics; focusing on promotion materials such as a card, DM, a flier and novelty etc. - The theme is small and excellent promotion designs specially emphasized on ideas. Contains many exquisite graphics in printings, processes, ideas, and materials. Promotion designs have a restriction in budgets and distributions, but a lot of amazing ideas and values as collections.

Price: 3,800yen + tax (ISBN 978-4-86100-806-1
)
Format: 226 x 304 mm, 184 pages (Full Color) Softcover with jacket
Language: English-Japanese Bilingual / Release Date: 28th November 2011

CUT OUT BOOK
- Little paper boxes to play and decorate -



CUT OUT BOOK 2


CUT OUT BOOK includes plenty of patterns of the boxes and illustrated labels. Cutting out the pages directly along the patterns, you can make little tiny sundries such as boxes with various illustrations and cute as "kawaii" labels. From children to adults, CUT OUT BOOK for people who love fancy handcraft works.






The author: PIGPONG (Yoko Ganaha, Piggy Tsujioka)
Price: 1,200 yen + tax (ISBN: 978-4-86100-807-8
)
Format: 182 x 257 mm, 68 pages (Full color) Softcover with Jacket
Language: Japanese / Release date: 28th November 2011





CUT OUT BOOK







The author: PIGPONG (Yoko Ganaha, Piggy Tsujioka)
Price: 1,200 yen + tax (ISBN: 978-4-86100-758-3)
Format: 182 x 257 mm, 76 pages (Full color) Softcover with Jacket
Language: Japanese / Release date: 26th October 2010


Available at:
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk


Or contact our distributors to find out your nearest bookstore carries this book

Oct 17, 2011

Tips & Ideas for D.I.Y. Motion Graphics










This is a spin-off book of "Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 100". Let’s learn from the the creators! This book teaches you know-how utilizing ideas, great tips from the professionals.Today, there are many motion graphics teemingly, what a creator really needs is “idea” and “DIY spirit” to accomplish great works. The popular creators from "Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 100" will show you their making processes and ideas of various types of Motion Graphics such as classic illustration animation, motion capture, gravitation computing in 3D software, and programming works.

Editor: KURANDO FURUYA
ISBN 978-4-86100-791-0
Retail Price: 2,800 yen + tax
Format : 182×257 mm, 204 pages ( Full Color ), Softcover with jacket
Release date: 25th October 2011

Contents
"Basic DIY"
1 Frash-ish Animation / Character Animation Synchronize music ( Shota Sakamoto )
2 Hand-drawing Animation / Simple and Fetish Style ( Yoriko Mizushiri )
3 cutout animation / DIY at home ( Mari Inaba )
4 Motion Capture / Low-cost Kinect motion capture ( Sota Sugahara )
5 GIF Animation / benefit of GIF Animation ( Yuya Yamaguchi ) 6 Motion Graphics / Logo to motion ( TYMOTE )

"Intermediate - Applied DIY"
7 Water-color Animation / Animation made of CG and a bit of water-color ( Ryo Hirano )
8 morphing Animation / ideas and morphing ( Koh Kamejima )

"Advance - Special techniques DIY : If you try, you will find out you can do it"
9 Motion Graphics Collage / low fidelity motion graphics using with data moshing ( Sou Ootsuki )
10 postrecording / ultimate DIY, challenging postrecording of motion graphics ( AC-bu )
11 Simple 3D Motion Graphics / utilizing textures of Simple 3D ( Takuya Hosogane )
12 CG with texture / let's create CG which has textures with a difference. ( TEAMLAB Inc. )
13 VJ / VJ using not only PC but video cartridge ( VIDEO BOY )

"Teamwork DIY - What team work can accomplish"
14 Ustream / Let's broad your work through internet ( Space dept. of Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun )
15 Planning on motion graphics / produce music video ( Gabin Ito )
16 Studio MV shooting / MV made by flash of a camera ( Masatsugu Nagasoe, Masaki Kawamura, Qanta Shimizu )
17 live-action and CG / facility utilizing CG texture maximum ( Koichiro Tsujikawa )

"Techinical DIY - Essentials of programming"
18 Motion Graphic Programming / Programming to generate theme of motion graphics ( Kazumasa Teshigawara )
19 Motion Graphics Programming / Synchronize music and motion graphics by programming ( Takashi Yamaguchi )

20 Let's broadcast your original motion graphics.

Sep 14, 2011

BOOK CATALOG 2011

Sep 8, 2011

123 Royalty-Free Background Motion Pictures [NEO]








At last! A sequel to the hit book "123 Royalty-Free Background Motion Pictures".
Here you will find an immense sample of background movies -123 of them! - that are very easy to use. Even more convenient…These samples are applicable to 16:9 widescreen too.
For professionals, but also for YouTube and Nico Nico Douga beginners searching a place to post movies.

ISBN:978-4-86100-788-0

Price: 2,800 yen + tax

Format: 182 x 230 mm, 176page (Full color), Softcover with jacket.

Includes:DVD-ROM x 1 MP4(H264/960x540/fps30)AVI(DV-NTSC/720x480/fps30)
21th September 2011 Author: ES...(Molojun)