Nice site for Nike Better World, ‘The Journey’ follows athlete Jason Lester on a 102 day journey across America to show Americans Nike’s commitment to making a better world. I like the particularly clean approach to design and layout, and the nice considered usage of fonts. Nice little animations and again another vertical scrolling site, but this is a nicely executed well designed example.
Really nice site for Beyonce, the music superstar. Modern, fresh, and beautifully designed site, I love the amount of white space and the considered layout and typography. It looks more like a graphic design magazine than a best selling artist’s, it is considered design and fantastic photography, video, and interesting personal content.
Created by designedmemory.
Site of Maersk global shipping company. Nicely designed promo site showing stories from around the world highlighting Maersk’s story. Featuring lots of really nice transitions and animations and with a lot of detail, from preloaders telling you about how many tonnes of good shipped since you have been online, to nice animated boats. Some nice layout in there too…
Created by LBi Denmark.
Site of Japanese designer & developer Yukiya Okuda. Simple exploratory site with lots of Flash & WebGL interactive experiments – very simple and fun to play with.
Interesting site showing the latest modern art on offer from Holland, lacking a building for young innovative artists to display Amber van den Enden and Kalle Mattsson decided to offer a website refreshed often showcasing new art. The site itself is minimal and really allows you the chance to explore the art works rather like a large draggable magazine with videos and images. I particularly like the click and drag navigation, shortcut on the left, smartly arranged like we see on the site, I like the grey dashed line leading you through the exhibits. Pretty cool…
Short movie & site promoting Japanese label United Arrows. I like the site after the film, presented like a credit roll to a film, another scrolling site – but this one is really nicely done, love the little animations for each part as you transition into them. Nice touches of detail such as the motion blur, sounds and so on as you scroll, bucking the current trend to execute this in Javascript this is all Flash based.
Colloboration between Uniqlo and Japanese fashion brand Undercover. Using the visual navigational metaphor of Google maps to allow you to explore and zoom into the various clothes on show in the quirky paintings / photos. Just a nice way of showing fashion in an interesting way, another typically fun and playful site from Uniqlo.
Best described by their website – ‘PARTY is a “Creative Lab” based in Tokyo and New York, founded by 5 Creative Directors, Naoki Ito, Morihiro Harano, Qanta Shimizu, Hiroki Nakamura, and Masashi Kawamura.’ Essentially 5 really talented creative directors working on some really nice, innovative projects. I like the strips on the homepage representing their projects – stretched over time, nice visually strong idea. For the rest they have some really nice projects and its well worth taking a look, definitely one to watch.
A collection of students work from the Hong Kong University – Digital Media Design graduate show. An explorative approach to viewing the pieces, lots of projects moving around with your mouse. I like the infographic chart approach to highlighting the key attributes of the project, nice attention to detail and a fun way to explore without too much detail. All in all it looks great and has really nice subtle animations to bring it all to life.
Created by Ahn Jiyong and Sanghun Heo.
Really nice site, highlighting the talks and ideas of TEDx Amsterdam. Using a cool 3d interface to map twitter conversations coming out over time from a brain. The camera changes over time to alloy a ‘slideshow’ view, so when you are not interacting you can simply watch the tweets appear. What I also really like is the attention to detail and the info graphic approach to the design of information – the chart of times and the really nice rising panel which stretches the timescales and so on. Every little interaction and touch is well though out and designed. It is great just to interact and play with, but also shows all the info in an intelligent and useable way – on top of all this it also looks good!
Created by WE ARE Pi and Media Monks.
Spring / Summer 2012 collection from Wrangler – wrapped up in a fun microsite. Inviting you to drag and release the characters at key moments in the video – triggering a cool transition between scenes where the character flies through the wall / floor / something. Makes something static relatively interactive, I also like the usage of the ‘edge’ and the position of your mouse to affect the rotation of the screen – nice attention to detail. For something that is essentially a video they have made it fun to play with and explore.
Created by Stinkdigital.
Bear 71 is a stunning interactive documentary about a female bear’s movements over 8 years, after she was caught in 2001 by wildlife officers in the Banff National park, Canada. Explained by Creative Review, “The project’s co-creators Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes decided to turn the 1m photos taken during the time of Bear71’s monitoring into an interactive project with the help of the National Film Board of Canada’s digital studio, NFB Interactive, and have Bear71 herself as the narrator of the story (she is voiced brilliantly by actress Mia Kirshner)”, link.
I love the execution, a lot of thought has gone into how best to present this wealth of information in an interesting and interactive way. Featuring a 3d map you explore made of dots that represent the terrain, trees, rivers, roads, hills and so on – you get a real feeling of depth. Bear 71 can be seen walking around the environment, triggering video events and so on, there are also all the other ‘characters’ in the park, golden eagles, lynx, deer, cougars, wolfs, other people (shown by a webcam snapshot when you start the site) which roam the park. It really is a fascinating experience offering a unique insight to the life of a bear in a human world, the trials they face, the dangers and how we affect their world. All presented in an innovative, beautiful and interesting way. Really great work…
Created by NFB Interactive.
Site of Zeitgeist “A gallery of artistic exploration, experimentation and research into social media art, folksonomy art, interactive motion tracking art, and cell phone art.” What I like is the way you navigate the site, your view rotates and moves around the screen, I like even that you can scroll around the canvas too. The clean and minimal design accentuates the nice transitions between the sections and adds an element of movement which is really nice – it is also a very modern non-Flash site which also works well on iPads.
Created by variousways.
Portfolio of Creative Director and designer Ian Coyle the man behind projects such as Andrew Zuckerman: Bird and Nike Better World. Really nice way of presenting work and breaking the norm – using a notation style highlighting interesting parts of the project, from snippets of code to snapshots of navigation, and the things that made the project special. It takes an exploratory approach and is nice to scroll around and find the details. Very cool, modern and fresh portfolio with great work…
