Asian Emoticons

On Wikipedia you can find a list of notable and commonly used emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer’s mood or facial expression in the form of icons. The Eastern emoticons are ‘eye-centered’ (^_^) while Western emoticons are ‘mouth-centered’ :-) Browse emoticons on Wikipedia ...

PingMag Website

Link: Browse «Japan Archive» at PingMag ...

This website shows a friendly screen design and offers a large pool of interesting design-ideas. The site is paused since 2008 and will not be updated since then. Nonetheless it’s worth to browse the archive.

PingMag is an online design magazine based in Tokyo:

Defining the term design as broadly as we can, PingMag writes about ideas and inspiration coming from both world class designers, and from the little store on the corner. We look at everything; product design, packaging, architecture, web design, typography, illustration, photography, fashion, programming, graphics, video, art, toys, traditional crafts, graffiti, set design…. anything, in fact, that we consider inspiring and we think will excite you too.

Menyacocoichi - very inviting

Link: Discover more - website of Menyacocoichi ...

Website with pleasing color-concept, unique layout and delicious food-photography. Very inviting.