– Interview von Christoph Ebert für Webmagazin anlässlich der MobileTech Conference in München.
– One semester on “Law and Society, Technology and Power” at Keio University, taught by iA Founder Oliver Reichenstein and Professor Catharina Maracke.
– I'm not a nuclear expert. I am a 40-year-old Swiss web designer, with a degree in philosophy, living in Tokyo. And I'm a father of a two-year-old boy. I was nonchalant about nuclear energy so far, but recently, I've read a lot about it; it's hard to understand the discussion.
– I sat down with the video team of GaijinPot for a short interview about the Web Trend Map.
– What makes Japanese design so special? Basically, it's a matter of simplicity; a particular notion of simplicity, different from what simplicity means in the West. So are things in general better designed in Japan? Well, actually, it's not that simple…
– It hangs in the headquarters of Google, Microsoft, Facebook, WordPress, and Yahoo! Japan. Even the CERN in Geneva has its own copy. The WTM4 poster has caused quite a stir.
– この度、今まで皆さまにお伝えしたくても出来ずウズウズしていた重大ニュースを、ここに発表させていただける運びとなりました。ひとつめは、特大プロジェクトの完了の件、二つ目はチューリヒに第2の拠点開設のご報告です。
– We had to be unusually secretive about the following developments. But now, we can finally lift the curtain. First, the big news project is finished. Second, we have opened a second office in Zürich, Switzerland.
– Japanisch für Anfänger oder was von anonymen Blogkommentatoren zu halten ist.
– We are happy to announce that the coolest gift for geeks, the A0 poster of the 2008 Web Trend Map, as featured by The Guardian, WIRED, Le Monde, Corriere, kottke, Boingboing, Techcrunch, Mashable, Valleywag and literally thousands of blogs.
– We present you with the 2008 Web Trend Map, in all its beautiful beta glory. This time we’ve taken almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites and pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map.
– Those familiar with the new Swiss train station maps may recognize one source of inspiration. We’ve adopted some concepts from our good friend Adrian Schaffner’s work on mapping Swiss train stations.
– 今回のmapは首都圏路線図をベースに作成し、また新しいレイヤーを2段追加しました。
– We’ve redesigned the Web Trend Map from scratch. It’s now presented as an isometric landscape.
– そして再び、Appleが私たちの信条としているセオリー「ブランド＝インターフェイス」を証明してくれました。言うまでもなく、私はこの小さなミラクルとでも呼ぶべきiPhone、発売と同時に手に入れたいと思っています。
– I needed an accountant for my new company and so I checked out a couple of websites and made a couple of appointments. And if you think accountants are boring, you are so very wrong.
– もちろん、日本語が使いこなせるかは、日本でビジネスを行う上でキーになります。しかし、あなたの日本語がパーフェクトでない限り、日本人と仕事をしようなんて、考えてはいけません。やっていきたければ、日本人のスタッフを雇うべきです。そして、そういった環境を整える準備ができるまでは、ガイジン市場に固執してください。小さいけれど、大変にフレンドリーな市場です。自信を持って出せるものさえあれば。
– Setting up a company in Japan as a foreigner isn’t as difficult as you might guess. Of course, it helped that I knew some things about Japan, and starting off—before I started off.