Site of singer known as Nil Karaibrahimgil. The style is a bit of a blast from the past, but it looks pretty nice, and some fun drag and drop features and other nice touches.
Created by iGOA.
Interesting navigation for the site of JVST an agency based in California. I like the transitions between the sections, lots of floating 3d planes and objects – but it all seems a bit, well unfinished maybe? It was created by one of the old masters, Joshua Davis, who did the groundbreaking Praystation, and makes incredible digital paintings. Was he restricted? Were things changed? How much input did he have? You would think that such a name would bring greatness. It’s a shame as the navigation transitions are nice, but on the whole it doesn’t really work… a lesson to be learned here maybe…
Created by Joshua Davis.
Really cool website, promoting Japanese Cup Noodles – in Japan. From a google earth-esque viewpoint users stack up pots of cup noodles with the aim of reaching space. Really simple idea, really nicely executed – you can watch other users stack up pots and see their mouse cursors and watch how they interact with the site. The screen refreshes with each newly stacked noodle pot, you can also drag a slider to the right to zoom right down to the bottom or where the stack is currently. Typically Japanese style minimal interface and clean slick interaction, looks great too – bit of a cultural nod to the google earth interface, nicely angled to bring out the full ‘stack’ of noodle pots. Really awesome…
Created by Dentsu and Dentsu Razorfish.
Site of Sims snowboards. Pretty interesting navigation and layout for a product website; parallax scrolling and rotation, zooming around items and info. All makes for a nice sense of depth with cool animation and interaction. Quite experimental menus that take a while to get the hang of, it’s always great to see new things and ways of navigation. Love it…
Created by FL2.
Really cool brand site for milk brand Cravendale. Like the previous incarnation this site is also highly interactive and fun, in this edition all navigational elements are interactive and can picked up and thrown around, all with realistic physics. Small hand drawn characters come on stage and add a humorous touch to things, these can also be picked up and chucked around! I particularly like the ‘why cravendale’ section where a projector playing a video can also be thrown around with projected video distorting and so on, the shadows on the picked objects are really great too. Lots of nice touches and attention to detail with really excellent Flash execution!
Created by Outside Line.
Nice idea for Muji, every day a product from their catalogue is highlighted in the style and layout of a calendar. The highlighted products feature videos and information with future items greyed out to be revealed on a certain day. Really simple idea, much better than creating a standard list or ‘normal’ product listing, even creating anticipation to visit again to find out more about things that caught your eye! Each item even has a click through to the item in the online store, so the process is complete. Explained simply by tha: “A promotional website for Mujirushi Ryouhin (MUJI). The website features a calendar interface of videos showing one MUJI product a day. By showcasing the products in small instructional videos, the website cuts across languages and is aimed for a worldwide audience.”.
It also looks great and as you can expect from it’s Japanese creators – a great layout and a well executed Flash site, nice and minimal with lots of good polish and animation. Created by one of my favourites tha ltd.
Website promoting an exhibition of works from the Digital Media Design course at Hongik University in Korea. Featuring an interesting draggable navigation / interface you can see the exhibits categorised by style. With nice little animations and interesting interaction, nicely laid out and easy to use…
Site highlighting the Sony presence at the CES 2009 show. Nice site featuring videos and content from blogs and twitter feeds from Sony. Well laid out and it looks pretty nice, not groundbreaking, but nice buttons and interaction / animation and so on…
The home of LOWORKS, a Japanese agency. Really nice site, very clean & simple, easy to use and nice to look at. Smooth animations reveal the artwork where you can find more about the project. The navigation is super clean, really nice site…
Really incredible interactive comic book, set in the future world of NAWLZ, described as ‘an experiment in interactive story-telling.’, it really is quite great (to experience it best you really need your speakers / headphones on). Basically an interactive story set alongside animation and sound design, which is all combined to make an immersive experience. The level of detail is amazing, everything has a multitude of layers and really great illustration…
But what really makes it great is the way it works, you choose to progress the story, along with it comes the animation and the great sound design, together with all so much detail. It all really feels very fresh but also a hawk back to ‘good old days’ of experimentation, new design and progression, reminds me a lot of the earlier Hi-Res! days. Totally awesome…
Created by SUTU (Stuart Campbell).
Following the theory of ‘6 degrees of separation’, Australian beer Tooheys have launched a competition for people to meet their hero, via their idea of ‘6 beers of separation’. You can view the many submitted videos from potential winners, and explore the site, all in 3D. There are some really nice touches, and attention to detail, particularly the interface and navigation whereby you float around a 3D space, where you can also interact with the videos that are suspended by string and bounce around. Looks pretty good too!
Created by Holler Sydney.
Very simple site that promotes Nokia’s E71 phone and the concept ‘Beautiful Connections’. Four short films were commissioned with the artists, Universal Everything, Carl Burgess, field, and SHFT; they all explore beautiful connections which are very stunning. It’s all very minimal and clean, and all a great excuse to commission some great visual artists…
Created by Hi-Res! and Wieden + Kennedy.
Momoko Golf Lab, a promotional site for Sony Japan. Providing you with multi angle videos, hi-speed camera footage and so on, all featuring golf. What I like about this site is the interface and the use of 3D for an immersive experience. You rotate around a 3D scene, with videos mapped onto planes and cubes, all a bit surreal and ‘techy’ but it looks pretty cool.
Created by Archetyp, Frontage, TYO Interactive Design Inc., and kirameki
Site for Sport Chalet, promoting their range of snowboarding/skiing products. You are presented with a 3D mountain, you can rotate your perspective around it with each professional boarder/skiier name floating around it. By clicking on one of the names the mountain falls apart spectacularly to form up a new environment where you can see your selected boarder. In some there are videos, interviews, or multi perspective photos – each highlighting the gear they are wearing, where you can see the price and so on – these cool little rollovers follow the person around… I really like this site, from the way it looks, to the high production values (the keying is great), to the fun and engaging way of viewing products, so much better than the standard thumbails and product info – it’s also got some 3D! Awesome!
Created by Firstborn.