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Clickable Advertising Banner Flash

May 31, 2005
Software: SwishMax
Ref: http://www.tokyorent.com

This is a simple banner I put together for a property management company here in Tokyo. They specialize in rental apartments for foreigners including English language teachers and IT professionals.

As usual, the design took a lot longer than the implementation. The Flash design was done using SwishMax. The text, including the Japanese kanji characters were converted into shapes – primarly because of concerns that viewers of the ad might not have the same character fonts installed on their systems. The total file size is slightly over 20k.

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