A short series of video portraits of Mountain Dew’s sponsored sportsmen. Love the animations and transitions on the landing page, and seamless transition which leads you into the looping video portraits – which are beautifully put together and well conceived. Little hotspots allow you to find out more about the individual components of the portrait, and panning around adds some element of exploration to the scenes.
Created by BBDO New York (@BBDONY).
Portfolio of designer / developer Martin Wecke – based in Berlin. Really minimal and interesting portfolio – all based around the scrolling mechanic used in a unique way. Scrolling down adds new thumbnails for projects, clicking on one gives more info, scrolling down reveals new images – similar mechanic one level down. Ultra minimal look and feel, straight to the point in an interesting way.
Created by Martin Wecke.
Website of Bang & Olufsen’s new in-ear headphones the H3. One long scrolling site with a navigation bar following you down the page, each section with animated features and information about the product. Really like the timeline where you can see the range of headphones B&O have made over the years. Also really like the image gallery and the way your view zooms into the grid of images. Lots of nice detail in each of the individual content modules, nice tidy promo site.
Created by hellomonday (@hellomondaycom).
Really nice minimal portfolio site of freelance UX/UI designer Paul Macgregor. Sweet and simple & monotone – but adds to the effect when the brightly coloured screengrabs animate into view. Really like the little animations when you press and tap the individual projects or go left / right. I like how you can browse the entire range of projects from the same view without having to keep go back up & down. Some nice design work in their too…
Created by Paul Macgregor (@SocketStudios).
Site of clothing label Joe San – the F/W 2013 collection. Some nice features, such as the full bleed videos and nice fluid transitions from each section. Like the video wallpaper and the detail view of the items shown in the video – nice to see these transitions and fluid video in non-Flash websites.
Created by Nodymedia (@nodymedia).
Site of developer Boris Etingof. Loads of shiny 3d animated particles coming together to create icons of the clients he has worked on, responsibilities, links and so on. Reminds me of the old school Flash portfolio sites, but in this case in Web GL and so on. Nice animations and transitions between the various projects.
Created by Boris Etingof.
Portfolio site of photographer Robert Grischek. Nice thumbnail grid layout showcasing his work, categorised around his logo by colours and types of project – so you can filter down to specific types – I like the way you zoom in and out of a thumbnail to get the full view.
Created by Matthias Schulz (@lumannski) and Lukas Lindemann Rosinski.
Publicly available data rendered on a 3d globe, so far showing a handful of cities – such as Amsterdam, Istanbul, and Helsinki – information such as public transport lines, census, and even an example of live traffic data. All this info is drawn up with lines and blobs to illustrate intensity – the minimal design really accentuates the lines, dots and blobs. Love the way the city streets are drawn up with the real time traffic data in Amsterdam.
Created by Laurens Schuurkamp (@waag).
Site showing the A/W 2013 range from Sonia Rykiel. Sequence of video clips showcasing key looks which you stop at any minute to see the details. Love the transitions to see the detail and the way you can zoom in and drag around the larger images on the left all in-situ – feels pretty slick. Lots of nice little details – like the progress bar in the top right – changing frame colours, and viewing the full range of looks. Looks great and works well down to mobile phones – really nice piece of work.
Created by 84.Paris (@84Paris_live) and Merci Michel (@MerciMichel).
Site of POSTmatter – best put in their words: “POSTmatter is about the people and projects crossing boundaries. Where art meets science, where fashion crosses over with technology, and where the digital world collides with the physical world. We’re about what’s exciting today and tomorrow.” This is there web equivalent of their iPad edtions. An interesting editorial site with a minimal layout, but some nice touches here and there – with fade to black transitions and and some interesting rollovers. Nice example of a modern digital magazine.
Created by POSTmatter (@POSTmatter).
Site promoting the Adidas NEO collection with Selena Gomez. Essentially a video clip of her wearing the range – you can click at any time and the video blurs out and you get a cool transition to show which items she is wearing – click through you can then buy the item. Pretty cool transitions and animations, and neat design.
Created by North Kingdom (@NorthKingdom).
Site showing how the ear works – sponsored by a hearing aid company. Featuring a cut away of the ear with hotspots and animations illustrating how it all works – love the rollover magnifying and animating the process of how we hear. It also looks great, with nice typography and subtle animations bringing the diagrams to life.
Created by Epiphany Search (@Epiphanysearch).
Lovely site for Nespresso showcasing 2 limited edition flavours – Napoli and Trieste. Fantastic 3d animated illustrations of the scenes evoking the ambience of both towns. Lovely animations and transitions and a great level of detail – love the way the scene colours in when you click on the label of the scene. Really nice site with a lovely ambience – really nicely executed.
Created by Werkstatt (@WerkstattParis), and Lowe Strateus (@lowestrateus).
Site promoting new Ubisoft game ‘Watchdogs’ an action/adventure game set in the modern age of communication and data. This site pulls in public live data from lots of different sources such as Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, transport grids, phone mast locations, cctv etc etc – and plots it all on a series of 3d maps across London, Paris and Berlin. The detail is quite incredible, featuring moving trains, phone networks, twitter messages, all in a 3d interface which moves nicely as you click and drag around the map. It really gives the impression of the amount of data in the world around us – all nicely colour coded and with icons to tell the differences between each bit of information. It looks really cool too – with the dark background and glowing icons and drawing lines – when you pan the buildings are draw all in 3d boxes, with particles at different heights giving that illusion of depth. A very cool site – all built in Flash – full of interactivity and dynamic information rendered in a 3d map!
Created by BETC Paris, (@BETCParis).
