kentique.com is now harder, better, faster, stronger as promised. The interface is now revamped to accommodate a truly bilingual environment, while the simplicity of the original is sustained.

Completely Re-tooled Structure

Now, I know things don’t look all that different from the previous design. However, there was many basic inconveniences which crippled the blog, mainly the discontinuous bilingual environment. The site framework was re-tooled from the ground up, continuing what people liked previously and fixing what was clunky.

Paperspace Interface

This blog was built with a somewhat unconventional concept; an interface as if it was printed on paper. Usually, web pages are loaded with information involving a lot of different colors, images and blocks of information. This site was relatively simple and straightforward enough that differentiation overload is really not necessary. This distills the reading experience down to the content of the information. I hope it provides a much better reading experience. (These hierarchies of tones and colors also accommodate color blindness as well)

(By the way: This minimalistic design was inspired by the book After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan by Thomas Daniell, a great, casual and informative book concerning the contemporary Japanese architecture scene.  If anybody is interested in Japanese Architecture, I highly reccomend it.)

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