Stucel - Web design studio in Jakarta, Indonesia.

"Damn, why it's so hard to design a website!" That's what my friend said two months ago, when he was trying to design his studio's website.

He's a logo guy, packaging guy and branding guru; he can imagine and sketch all the things in this world beautifully with great speed (from high detailed robots, monsters, flowers, super heroes, to Lord of the Rings guys). But! When it comes to website design, he is slow and the result is awkward and odd. Holy moly!

Why? Why on earth this could happened to him? Why it's so hard to do this 72 dpi thing with only couple of boxes, gradient and a bit of color scheme that is surely be a drop dead easy case to graphic designer degree guy like him?

Check out my interview for QB Headlines, the Indonesian local portal. I'm featured in the Creative Industry that the editor said something about "so it can help to inspire the entrepreneurship side of our creative readers". Wowzer, I'm very honored!

As for the interview, I was being asked for questions like: how it begins?, how to maintain?, who's your target market?, and a couple of our MoodMill project questions.

PS. Sorry the interview is not in english.

We just received an email from Mr. Rain Yang, the editorial in Department of Design 360 -- Concept & Design Magazine of Sandu Cultural Media Co., Ltd (Guangzhou / Hong Kong).

They have a new publication (the Almanac of Asia-Pacific Design IV), being an informative source for professional designers and amateurs alike, who have great interest in international design trends. It highlights originality, novelty and authority, aims at putting professional outstanding designs on display and providing good opportunities for excellent designers to stand out.

They have several categories, ex: visual identity design, packaging design, logo design, book & brochure, print advertising, poster design, illustration creative product design. And of course, we will be featured in the website category.

However, we urged to submit the works before July 15, 2008.

I'm very excited about it. This will be our first recognition in printed format, ever.
And I hope they write the almanac in English, so that we can read it conveniently (if we have the chance to grab a copy for this, since the almanac may not be available in Indonesia).

It's been a busy and hectic days lately. That surely doesn't stop us to take care of this "little guy". But hey, "simple and straightforward" means constantly improving, just like my pal Mr. T.J. of HiDef once said.

With the recent extensive use of our Project Area, I'm thinking that it deserves bigger exposure for that, linked only from the footer is not enough. It's harder to find and keeps our clients, partners confused at some point to access it.

After having some dead ends how to put the button (that act as trigger) on an existing design's header, I get inspired by one of the site that has been featured in my daily always-be-inspired feed. Lucky!

So for clients and partners, enjoy the "new" flavor of Project Area!
(Try to hard refresh your browser to force reload the style files if it displays differently from the screenshot below).

"Mozilla's Firefox 3 release event yesterday was an epic success. The servers logged over 8 million downloads during the 24-hour download day, and Mozilla has declared victory after exceeding its initial goal of 5 million download" -- Ryan Paul

For that reason, we are honored to receive the Firefox 3 Download Day certificate from Mozilla team!

PS. Well, you can get your own certificate too here.