Kilian Muster

Yay brethren, what up with thee?

I registered with this great Web 2.0 savvy community site and all I got was spam.

I could hear the vikings sing. Really. But only once I got into the Monty-Python-state of mind. Now to tell the whole story, there’s a nice community site for foreigners (aka gaijin) in Japan, and I registered with them. Of course I didn’t use my normal mail address for this (I’m not that stupid, despite the rumours).

So after months I log in and suprisedly I find two messages for me. (more…)

Quick and dirty follow-up on the Article at Information Architects’ Website. I just got reminded of yet another branding crime:

LOGO OVERKILL.

There are people who think it is a good idea to put their company logo on every single slide of their PowerPoint presentation. They think that’s branding, when in fact it is annoying, dull and childish. Or to put it in designer’s terms: you’re just creating unnecessary visual noise that draws the attention away from the actual content. (more…)

Great Amnesty International ad. (more…)

Habe gerade einen interessanten Artikel hier gelesen. Natürlich mußte ich sofort die Hauptunterschiede zu den Japanern ergänzen… Die Grafiken über Deutschland und China sind von Frau Yang Liu, die Japangrafiken sind von mir.

Blau ist Deutschland, Rot ist China und Gelb ist Japan.

Zur Erklärung, Japaner duschen nicht, sie baden fast immer. Zum Ego: der Japaner definiert sich durch die Beziehungen mit Personen die ihn umgeben. Bei den übrigen Grafiken, die ich nicht übernommen habe, sind die Japaner wohl ein Mix von chinesischen und deutschen Charakteristika. Was Pünktlichkeit betrifft ähnelt oder übertrifft der Japaner sogar den Deutschen, in vielen sozialen Dingen sehe ich Parallelen zu China.

I haven’t been using Macromedia Adobe Flash since version 7, so it’s been quite a while. I am now equipped with the latest and greatest CS3 version of this application so I couldn’t help a certain anticipation when I launched Flash after such a long time of “abstinence”, hoping that the acquisition of Macromedia would have changed the application for the better. Partly because Macromedia had this reputation of being buggy and not fixing even some very alarming bugs within an acceptable timeframe.

Unfortunately I was dissappointed in about every aspect where I was hoping for some improvement. Worse, I noticed a few very alarming developements going on, when using the application for about two days. Let me note here that I’m not a Flash programmer, so I won’t be able to appreciate any improvements on action script etc. I’m merely a wannabe animator needing to create a few banners. And honestly in most cases I’d rather use Anime Studio Pro, neé Moho from Lost Marble, or ToonBoomStudio for creating animation than Flash, but I digress. (more…)