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This is the post showing the Keynote Presentation Template. We did it as a part of overall branding and personal identity system development for our friend Alex.

I decided to post this, out of curiosity how could such madness look like. SOUDESUNE – そうですね. Not much to say, is a gif, simple gif as a tile, epileptic, but somehow attractive. Are they going to match at some point?

Looking at the slides of presentation, without content I realized there is certain beauty there, about it, and since I really like the TELETEXT design, I created this post, to share this bit twisted look at presentation on blog. There is some story going on, and in within that story a story pattern emerges, and this is what I like here, because became to be visual. Here in Black and White, raw, but beautiful.

The Presentation Blank Slides

Looking at the slides of presentation, without content I realized there is certain beauty there, about it, and since I really like the TELETEXT design, I created this post, to share this bit twisted look at presentation on blog. There is some story going on, and in within that story a story pattern emerges, and this is what I like here, because became to be visual. I want to have a scarf with this pattern now.

PLACE: GOROKU RESTAURANT

We were invited to visit this place, mainly because the chef is our friend, and he insisted us to come. Me , Risa, Chiaki, and Mako chan. During that dinner I again saw that cooking is art, and delivering great food to happy people is the same as designing great piece for satisfied client. This experience I decided to compile, and share on our blog. Voila…

Shanti Gita restaurant – now after request just “gita – una trattoria ed caffé de ricorso”.

This is the “Tapioka” project. The Tapioka is a pretty popular drink in Taiwan. Originally it is a mix of milk, sugar and Tapiokas – the jelly substance pieces made of the vegetable root they have there in Taiwan. Actually is some sort of palm root. And this project is basically about establishing the identity for a newly forming chain. The chain of Tapioka little stop and go shops. The values are very straight forward. Is the highest quality milk, mixed with highest quality milk, for everybody.

吉村猛 "yoshimura-takeshi"

The post about the knives, and their functions. Since I know there is not knife as knife here in Japan. After we started the debate over his knives. I have seen the Japanese types, and the “foreign” types in his collection, and decided to make this post. One of the drivers is, to be honest the post I have seen some time ago.

This are the early sketches,  of the job I am doing in Taipei / NOW.

Photos taken in streets of Tokyo, by  TOKYO FASHION blog and ECO BAG designs digitally added. Looks Fun. Further on – one by one.

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ECO BAG was produced. As a prototype so far, the real producing will start in two months from now on. This are the photos from the

eco bag project / stage 2 / hint

9:36 AM, just posted, the eco bag…

Ryougoku station. 3 o’clock. Two SUMO SAN’s are watching you. Watching and guarding your steps. “Sooo, you watch better out dear pedestrian , commuter,  fellow. You don’t know what I think, but I know what you do! Walk better ahead, and play cool. SOUDESUNE …”

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The todays presentation, we went, was about eco bag! Eco Bag? Yes – eco bag, is the bag made of canvas, and bit of leather (artificial), which you do not throw away, after you drag your grocery home, from another mad shopping round. Is the thing you should reuse, have always with you, carry around. Is a bit like lover or husband. You should simply love that thing. And we are seeking for the right, appropriate visual. The printed graphics, which is going to support all of that and even more. Will become to be a trend! Today’s one, mean the presentation, was about the concept/ idea. Come up with it, show it to the owner of the label, discuss it with him, and his managers, develop, evolve, and come back to the second stage presentation. We left the designs there, with them, to digest it, and … let us see what they will pick. They already have their favorites, and we already have the ideas of further development  possibilities, and directions. In this post, I can not show the actual designs, but the hint of it. As shown below. Oh, I like his project.

eco bag post / psssst./ is in the process yet, so just hint

One more time, mainly because I wanted to try gallery workout…but the black and white gif, is nice, don’t you think?

…for more, click read more button, there is a gallery…

Bad boys motorcycle club were throwing a party, in one members photographer studio. Alex did this photos / thanks / fun fun … www.alexandregervais.com

Click “Read More” to see the rest of the gallery…

Alexandre Gervais – the smart tomcat – web strategist and consultant – sits here next to me – we are creating the ID of his presence on internet and in the let us say “world”. Now he can watch it, and think about it. So can you -  dears. The discussion appreciated. www.alexandregervais.com

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Risako just finished the Active Support microsite layout – is mainly about, they want to have some face and presence on internet – not a big deal.

ActiveSupport-Microsite layout

Hi, the Italian cuisine restaurant “Shanti Gita” continues. There is a bit of fundamental change, and it is nothing less than they changed the name of restaurant. Now it is “Trattoria Gita”. Nothing to dramatic. The chef, likes the half/ half concept, where his girlfriend (she is working in the venue as an assistant, waiter, actually helping) has the other half of “Identity” on her “Meishi” – business card. Yes! To mention, the development of this particular job is in the business card stage – now. To the future, There is a will, on the client side, that they will be wanting other materials, further on. like bulletins, even some interior graphics. And since “gita” means picnic, the idea of having some summer meadow mood in overall ID is sympathetic. And I did not wanted to solve such with “another pretty picture” which would be everywhere, and would become for sure limiting soon. So I spend most of the time coming out with illustration, done  in some own able illustration style.. and this is the one, 1 pixel thick strokes, like spaghetti if you want .. Do you know what …Have a look:

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This is the chosen one, came on chosen perlescent paper, which Risa likes so much, quick shot before it goes…

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Hello,the work, dish we are cooking here at soudesune. Is a set of business card proposals. This time, for a company called KENNY SERVICE. They do business with IP Phones, here in Japan. They need new set of businesscard. Here it is. Looks like we are doing business cards, and just them. Ooops mistake. Somewhere we have to start our relationship with clients, and somewhere we have to start to build our reputation. I mean spread the good message.  They already chose the one, they like and fits their needs the best. I will post it next. In the meantime, have a look, on the first stage. Voila…

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Ikebukuro. The purpose of afternoon trip in bad weather? – To buy another new cartridges, and another print paper for our ever hungry (and hungrier) printing machine. The destination BIG CAMERA. I took the vintage camera. To see what it does, have a bit fun. It was given to me by Keiko’s father, just because I liked it. Was completely in to it, on one of the regular visits at Keiko’s place. She is Risa’s “beautician” … Few days later I received the photos from photo lab. They gave me this photo album as well. I filled the photos in, looked at it and than immediately popped up the idea, like “hmmm… this photos are not really the greatest pieces, but if I collect them in particular way, due to color relationships, or some shape references…. hmmm…  starts looking better.”  And after mixing and matching them in many ways, this came out. And I managed to satisfy my another obsession. The colourful stationary tapes, the let us say memo tags. They are always so attractive to me, I buy it, and never use it. But, that time, it was the time to use them…yes, I fulfilled the empty pages, with nothing much saying shapes… And look at it, in the end – I love the result. A little story. No beginning, nor real end. Just impression. I am grateful for this AMAZING camera. Thank you, Keiko’s father.

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i love my friends – he is one of them

my fellow from prague, whom I miss, www.visualperfect.cz

In the train I met Minnie, My name is Mickey

mickey-a-minnie we are thinking the same, such nicely matching couple desu

Walking to the Japanese lesson, such still life in the street, kind of urban poetry / SOUDESUNE

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The active support decided the logo, business card is what follows now. From, corporate conservationism, to friendly joy. Have a looooook .

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The “Shanti gita” – italian pasta and caffé, as they call it “Una trattoria ed un caffé de ricorso”. The owner, bought the venue even with the name, and image. But what was not part of the buy?…hmmm, yes the data, to anyway outdated visual style. And this is where we are. We have been asked to redo, redesign, from given name to year 2009… still keeping in mind, the values. This is where we started, with the “g” what was part of old, bit more complicated ornamental look and feel. We are getting down, to clean, fresh, summer, friendly way of “Shanti gita”, while it actually means something like “Peaceful picnic” — as Shanti taken from Sanskrit and gita is (I was sad) casual Italian  word for an eating in the grass, better outside the city, that you have a little trip, with the aim of relax and picnic. We posted 3 concepts. A and B are the same, just the owner is not sure if he will use that, or this size.”Voila” have a look…

Shanti-Gita_A / Friendly trattoria and cafe, summer, and easy picnic

Hello, another logo proposal set, stage1 of course. I decided to include this JBRIDGE project under the fresh dish from our kitchen series, even though it is old around two months. Yes , I had “brilliant” idea to compete the Japanese taste in the open design competition site, here in Japan. The Law company, newly established and based in Nihonbashi – Tokyo. They wanted logo, modern logo, with connection to the bridge, law, japan, and red, they wanted, so simple, isn’t it? . Ha , have a look, I tried, enjoyed, and proposed. Went to Nihonbashi first, did the photos of area, grasped some idea what is Nihonbashi (the old bridge, very old, before there was one made of wood, now pretty one, but covered with highway above it), explained where my thinking is coming from, and proposed some design ideas… nothing too complicated yet… and even further on, it went well, I had some nice ranking, JBRIDGE liked it, competing fellows liked it, was happy to see that…… and in the end…. YES – have a look on the last picture, is the winner one, and there you go, is not red, is not modern, and is not my proposal )))))))…. though the mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine… that is the liked one, fair play, and I can stay with liking my idea and adjusting my self… Actually not a big deal… As I say I enjoyed, and now can post nice one… enjoy it too.

1-intro - the law and Nihonbashi in Japan

Which one is your favorite?  Which is the winner?

With this I am establishing the series of “About the drink labels” post. Actually I wanted to call it the “Labels form Africa”. But it would not be completely right, while there are some from Poland, and some from Czech Republic. So the beer labels collection, is interesting twice, obviously first reason is because they are having that patine of far away places. (Now actually Czech beer as well, since I am here in Japan And the second reason is the way how they came to me. And that one is nice, because I have never been to Africa my self, but Masa and Mari, from Iwate – Morioka, they have been. Africa was the part of their around the globe trip, and I living that time in  Prague, was the part of it too.  While I hosted them for few days, as a member of Couchsurfing, or Global hospitality, do not know now, does not matter. Simply we met, and as I have seen that collection, wanted to have a record, of a obviously rare stuff. Besides -  I was working on Czech beer brand label in that time my self. So the wider “research” fitted even better. The life is full of surprises, and this was/is one of them. Voila. have a look, probably will help you in your current project. As A first post will be the lids, as a teaser, and the labels of alvaro non alcoholic drink, and beer from Ethiopia.

Konyagi - the spirit of the nation /Aldaris, Sprite / Tauras / Allsops / Kroll / Schweppes / Sprite again / Zubr / Classic Gingers Beer / Koff / Krest

This is our/mine first blog entry ever, is half real half trial, and is about soudesune.

SOUDESUNE EXPLANATION VIDEO ON YOUTUBE

Though I do not know what it means, when I asked Risa, she just sad “Ok they are complicating the SOUDESUNE issue”, so for now just this has to be enough.