Smart Flash blog for Pill & Pillow. Great example of a good Flash blog, really simple to use, it looks good, and works well. I like the way the posts appear on stage, and how the content changes to fit the browser window. There is some great content as well.
Really slick site for 2929 Productions – an independant film production company. The site looks great and has some really great transitions – nothing ground breaking – just looks & works great.
Created by T-Sign.
Great little website, promoting Japanese cards ‘Torecale’ – cool playing cards that feature great designs. The site is really straight forward and full of great touches – based around 4 card games you play the computer and in tern get to see how cool the cards are. Just really slick and fun.
Created by Makibishi.
Nice way of showcasing short films and installations. Showing 20 works from the last 20 years of Coventry School of Art and Design’s New Media Arts MA. Using Papervision 3D to allow the use to explore the material in an interesting way. Effective and fun site.
Created by Less Rain.
Pretty nice portfolio website of Switch Mediaworks. I’ve included this due to the amount of innovative rollovers and basic interactions that have been re-thought – its refreshing to see conventions of user interactions have been questioned. Nice slick animations and transitions. Particularly like the way rollovers are highlighted and the videos are introduced.
Website of a design & innovation consultancy. Slick 3D navigation interface, and lots of nice touches. In particular the way you navigate images and drill down into the various sections. Text appears in a unique way with lots of movement and nice attention to detail.
Created by Kakarod.
Site showcasing the new HD capabilities of the Flash Player, each trailer has a HD option, which launches the trailer in HD and full screen. Really great way of presenting the trailers in a nice visual way, nice touches and easy to use navigation. The transition between full screen and windowed is pretty cool. Great progress for the Flash Player.
Made by Big Spaceship.
Really interesting concept – an interactive music video. Arcade Fire’s ‘Neon Bible’ is shown in such a way, you are taken through the song and can interact with elements of the video. I love the idea and i’m quite amazed that there are not more of these around. Its a great way of involving the audience and keep their attention throughout.
Created by Vincent Morisset.
Footage of whales to increase awareness of their plight. Really slick site – the best use of video in terms of interacting and navigating I have seen. For each bit of footage small images are placed apparently at each keyframe, these images change as the cursor is moved across the timeline. For each whale a small thumbnail of each video is played, all very minimal and stylish. Its a great site with lots of really good touches and great attention to detail.
By Scholz & Volkmer.
Photographer’s website, using black as the concept – a whole host of transitions and effects are in full effect, revealing the content. There are some really nice touches in here, in particular the way text is revealed and images are transitioned – I really like the simplicity of the site. There is nothing over the top in terms of navigation and it remains easy to use.
Created by Artificial Duck.
Nice slick website, promoting the Nike Jordan Melo M4 basketball trainer! Really smart art direction and great execution. A quasi 3D environment you can pan around the environment and view videos and see the shoe, download stuff and so on. Its a just a great experiential site, involving you and encouraging you to explore the website, really slick – I really like the simple & effective navigation, rollovers, it just so easy to use.
Created by Blast Radius.
Site promoting the new Audi R8 for the UK market, from the perspective of 12 ‘chapters’ explaining the intricacies of the car. There are some really nice transitions and touches that liven it up a lot, nothing ground breaking just a nice example of a car microsite and an interesting use of navigation.
Developed by Good Technology.
Another cool UNIQLO website, this time in the guise of a grid ‘game’. I say game lightly as its more like a kind of interactive experiment with up the 50 people from all over the world interacting with cubes in a virtual space. You can create cubes, rotate them, divide them, move them and so on, everyone can edit your cubes and vice versa. It provides an interesting irreverant website, with cool sounds and great interactivity.
Created by the legend that is Yugo Nakamura of YUGOP.
Simple but effective photography website from Michael Didonna, beautiful photographs and minimal website showcasing them. I like the partial zoom transitions on rollovers and thoughtful layout.
Developed by Boom Design Group.
