Sakana—The Portfolio of Brian Zick Back

Hyperlinks are awesome, you can’t deny it. They’re so great you can find some here, and all over this website.

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think—Society is what runs our lives. We are slaves to tradition. You may have all the money in the world, but you'll still fall in a daily routine that you've decided is best. But that has no richness to it, no freedom. You don't know what freedom is like unless you're out of your comfort zone.

Owned & operated by my friend Josiah, “Ankyo” is Japanese for “Easy Life.”

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Favorite Artists
Adam Atomic In a world where imagination is slave to finance ... one man fights for liberty and justice!
AQ A Tokyo-based, multilingual design office, started by Eiko Nagase and Chris Palmieri in 2004.
Draft Japanese designer portfolio.
Indigo Art The portfolio of spriteer Dan Fessler.
Junkboy Exceedingly amazing portfolio, check out the b&w imagery.
Kenneth Fejer Attractive pixelart and 3D graphics.
madPXL Pixelart and low-poly randerings by Damien Corrado.
Retinal Eclipse Drawings and pixelart of pixelartist Arachne [also apparently known as Agnus].
Useful Resources
ctrl+shift+g A small script enabling web-developers to stick to a Grid Layout quickly and simply by including the Grid Layouts Javascript file and XHTML code.
EM Calculator A small, useful Javascript tool. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.
Gray Graphics Japanese type foundry. Very poppy.
HTML Elements Index A continuously updated list of all HTML and XHTML elements from HTML 3.2 to XHTML 2.0
Microformats Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
mootools A compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer.
Rubhub Social search engine.
Web Typography The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web.
Background Noise
fs·Freak Very hip, groovy chip pop.
Relient K My all time favorite band since 2003.
The Young Punx United Kingdom based remix artists
YMCK 8-Bit magicalness.
Games
The Rather Difficult Font Game Which font is this one here?
Blogs
A Brief Message Features design opinions expressed in short form—two hundred words or less.
Ankyo Blog A friend's blog, tends to be very thought-provoking.
Edgy Inspirational Author Book reviews, giveaways, and more...
i love Typography Designed to inspire its readers, to make people more aware of the typography that is around them.
Say It Ain't Slow A blog about website performance (in Helvetica, where available)
Subtraction Khoi Vinh's blog and website focusing mainly on design.
The Superest Who is The Superest? A battle of epic proportions.
Typesites A weekly showcase of websites with interesting typographic design.
Interesting Websites
Hitotoki An online literary project collecting stories of singular experiences tied to locations in cities worldwide.
Life in Mono A wonderfully presented photographic journal by Kalon Edser.
Communities
Airwalking Studios Art forum and tutorials.
CSS is Poetry Neopets oriented stylesheet cascading forum.
Pixelation Pixelarting forum.
Analytics
Clicktale Records visitors’ actions as they browse, inluding clicks, hovers and how far down they scrool.
Crazy Egg Visualize clicks, and a lot of other data such as time, source and operating system. Fun to play with.
Google Analytics The main analytics program I use, covers everything from city to time on site, with lots of graphs.
Webcomics
9 Planets w/o Intelligent Life A philosophical road comic about two unemployed robots on an improvised interplanetary voyage of self discovery.
Minus It's about a little girl who goes on many adventures. Ryan Armand makes this great comic strip on giant paper with lots of colors.
Copper A boy who goes on adventures with his dog. Kazu Kibuishi does a great job making this comic strip.