Site of clothing shop Daffy’s. Makes use of bold typography and imagery to maximise impact. I like the animation and transitions between sections, feels very fresh and modern.
Created by Freedom + Partners.
Yearly Archives: 2009
Portfolio website of photographer Andreas Smetana. Nice and simple layout with fluid animation, using your mouse scroller you can flow through the thumbnails – when you click on one you get a full screen image which you can scroll around. I like the fluid movement and the little animated touches which gives it something more. Some nice photos in here…
Created by Cassius Clay and Canvas Group.
Website with a great little game which warns you not to ‘touch’ the bottle, promoting from what I can tell a new deoderant. When you click on the bottle it explodes, you then have 5 minutes to put it back together via an ingenious game, similar to the recent 3d game for Pearl Jam. By clicking and dragging a peice of the bottle you can rotate around and find the place it should be in. Really like the intro and the section before you click on the bottle, nice art direction and fantastic execution, great fun.
Created by GrupoW and Papervision creator’s new agency HelloEnjoy.
Site promoting the Watchmen motion comic, an animated version of the seminal Watchmen graphic novel. The various sections within the site have a nice 3d movement to them, with objects at various depth and your mouse controlling your viewpoint, giving a nice sense of depth.
Created by The Visionaire Group.
Latest Axe promotional site – Muchas Maracas, in the German / Austrian territory. Really fun series of games / video content which features the Axe stable of scantily clad women, with full screen high quality footage. The games are loosly based on the ‘Muchas Maracas’ concept seen in the latest Axe commercials, one game asks you to hit the cursor keys in time with a beat, another to press the keyboard on the left/right side while a girl is sprayed with a water pistol! Nothing new but simple, and fun – I think the target audience will like it!
Website of the F/W collection from Wrangler of 2009. Very simple site with a nice use of video content to showcase their clothing line. I like the setting of the video shoot in the ‘wild west’ in an abandoned town, it adds a lot of atmosphere – paired with the clean minimal interface and the movie-esque aspect ratio – it gives a nice effect. Nicely built and looks great.
Created by Koka Kaka Entertertainment.
Website promoting Polish beer Lech. Interesting fish-eye viewpoint which zooms in and out of a watery globe when you change section. Nicely polished with slick animation and parallax style interactivity.
Created by artegence.
Nice site for The Economist. Scenes composed of 3d boxes mapped with photographs make up this site, each scene represents a ‘thinking space’ for people featured on the site. When you click on a collection of boxes your view moves into position to show the complete scene – it gives a nice effect.
Portfolio of Armin Morbach, hair & makeup artist, publisher and producer. Love the style of this portfolio, really fantastic – parallax scrolling with cool cutout scenery. Nicely interactive and well designed, you really get a nice feeling of depth with the different levels. Essentially a very simple porfolio – but a great looking and effective one, with some nice transitions and effects.
Created by SiteSeeing.
The home of Umbro, English sportswear clothing brand. Very nice, simple, well designed Flash site for the Umbro brand. I like the homepage with its videos and images, which is all visually interesting, and considered layout and typography. They have also included all the latest social media, etc, feeds onto the homepage, i.e. Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and so on. A thoroughly modern, fresh, well considered site – nice!
Created by Rokkan.
Fantastic typographic intro sequence for the art work of Eddie Goh. The pacing of the animation is really fantastic you really get the feeling of the transcript. The site itself is pretty strange too, but provides an interesting atmosphere to some nice work.
Created by yaw.
Cool promotion site for Orange in France and from what I can tell some cinema events. Nice stop motion animation with cardboard objects, really well animated and provides an interesting look and feel for the site. Nice interaction with the little elements and well animated characters – fun to play with and cool to look at.
Slick site promoting Lands’ End womens swimwear. Some really nice features and attention to detail in this site, all tied together with some colourful visuals. I particularly like the ‘runway’ mode, where you can scroll through all of the swimwear, with nice multi level parallax scrolling, with zooming in and panning – they’ve done a really nice job of it. Lots of cool rollovers and nice typography makes this a fun site use and nice to look at.
Created by RED Interactive Agency.
Yes another Uniqlo microsite, this time promoting the new launch of a Uniqlo store in Paris. Apart from that it’s pretty unclear – apart from general promotion – but this site is very flashy and fun. Currently it’s at 16000 pixels tall, which i’m assuming will grow as new content is added – along with the date scale on the left. Lots of little videos and products on display as you scroll down the huge page – all a bit mental really – but looks great!