Dir en Grey Musican Site

Hi Class,
 I know everyone won't check this anymore seeing as our last class was Wednesday May 21st. Anyways, here is a sample image of my musician website.

 

This was of a band called Dir en Grey. They are a really neat Japanese Metal/Visual Kei band that I came across many years ago, still immensely enjoy their music. Check them out, really cool stuff! 

Musicians

Hi Class,
 Here are some of my favorite musicians!

 

http://direngrey.co.jp/english/e-information.html

http://www.symphonyx.com/

 

http://www.rammstein.de/en

What I've noticed that all three of these site have in common are shops, history, ticket information, news, pictures of the band members and or album covers. They also have a dark theme to them, Dir en Grey being the lightest of the bunch. Very interesting layouts as far as their updates on where the band has been on tour or any new merchandise that has recently showed up in the shop.

Classmates Blogs

Hi Class,
 Time to pick three blogs, and make comments on them.

 First up, is Grant Barrett! I really like the way he designed his blog. Very clean and minimalistic. Easy to read and overall good layout.

 Second is Jason Pau, again super clean and easy to read. The lack of color is rather uninspiring but not detrimental to the overall design of the blog.

Lastly, is Bo Kim. I like her very fresh and clean look that she has on her blog. Very easy to navigate and overall great design choices.

Koa Water

Hi Class,
 I really like this long page. Very pretty colors. Yay! colors!

 http://www.drinkkoa.com/#top

Sounds pretty yummy. It's just so pricey for a case...otherwise I might consider some for myself!

Deviant Art

Hi Class,
 Sorry, I have been so lax on the posts! I have been pretty sick as of late. Anyways, where I tend to keep most of my images is on Deviant Art.

http://www.deviantart.com/

Overall, I love the creativity of this place. So much talent and interesting projects get posted here all the time. Worth a look if you are curious!

Google Sphere

Hi Class,
 I found this while roaming the web. It looked really interesting. Not sure if it meets the criteria for the "high end html5" thing, but...I figured I'd throw it out there!

ladies and gentlemen....Google Sphere!

Okay, well that's my post for this last Wednesday! see you all in class!

 

h.NAOTO

Hi Class!
 My favorite Japanese clothing designer of all times has to be h.NAOTO! I really like his eclectic style of gothic/steampunk/fantasy mix in all of his clothing. Very creative and unique clothing I have not seen much from many American designers! Overall, his site is very bold and simplistic. Easy to navigate and to look at all new and older collections that he has on display on the site. To be blunt, I drool at the clothing daily wishing I could afford it!

Here is the official site: h.NAOTO

You might need to use a Japanese to English translator to read what certain parts of the site say in Japanese, but other then that it is perfectly readable.