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;…
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…
First thing I saw when I turned on the computer is this:
Shamelessly, in the middle of the office, I exclaimed “NANYATE?!” And decided to do this:
The End
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Yes, this is a crappy entry. And yes, betcha everyone said “nanyate?!” when the logged into their Gmails today, because everyone has Gmail. I am just busy. Sorry! I…
After I saw C-class designers copying my previous theme, I felt compelled to come up with something new. So here is something I created in less than a day. It’s nowhere as pretty as my last layout, but I tried my best given my time constraint!
This theme is called ‘Torii’, which is the gate into…