Nanyate.com finally gets a new theme for 2010! It’s called 波 nami – Japanese for wave. Not much inspiration here; I simply grew tired of looking at serif fonts on white background. Every blog seems to be going to the minimalist, serif route, so I decided to bring back some color and some sans-serif…
Friends, readers and lurkers, I now present to you my new theme: Seigaiha or 青海波. Seigaiha is an ancient Japanese wave design created with semi-circles. How Seigaiha was born It’s probably the most difficult theme I have ever designed. Finding the motif was the easy part. I discovered seigaiha months ago while I was at the…
As some of you may have noticed, my site structure has changed since the migration to the new servers. I streamlined the pages in preparation for my new theme; a new theme that is going to be radically different from anything I have ever designed. Not that it’s going to look revolutionary or anything;…
Just printed 200 business cards for my blog. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out! Thanks to Claudia’s recommendation, I printed 200 cards at Tommy Prints for just S$24 – about 17 US dollars – with matte lamination. What a steal! Front of the Nanyate?! business card Back of the Nanyate?! business card Why would bloggers need…
[narcissism] A la Teddy’s recommendation, I decided to participate in WPWebHost’s Best Wordpress Design Award. Nanyate?! doesn’t quite fit in any category, so I’m just going to go for Modern and Elegant like everyone else. Let’s hope Nanyate?! makes semi-finals and you can all vote for me. [/narcissism] How to participate? Your website must be powered by WordPress. Write…
After designing, coding and scrapping 2 layouts, I finally settled with this new theme, which I call “Zen”. Searching for a personal brand, an identity It was quite a challenge coming up with something new. With my job now related to the Singaporean social media scene, I wanted to create some sort of identity for myself and…
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