Site highlighting Naoki’s range of sportswear – “NAOKI is a unique sportswear collection designed by NAOKI TAKIZAWA, a designer renowned in the Paris fashion world as the decade-long creative director of ISSEY MIYAKE”. A nicely balanced, clean minimal site, with rotating 3d panels showing the range of clothing. Clicking on one shows an overview where you can smoothly zoom in and out. Nicely designed and executed with some really nice animation and interactivity.
New portfolio site of Hong Kong based agency Pill & Pillow. Very simple with some nice touches, a Flash based, blog esque layout with tags and social content, pulled in from sources such as YouTube. I like the 3d screwed up balls of paper that represent their projects and the way they reveal, also some really nice work in here, lots of experimental work too. Well put together and looks pretty cool and minimal.
Interesting site promoting Verbatim memory. Characters that are made up from memory sticks fight each other in an arena, you can answer a series of questions, each correct answer gives you more memory – in the end creating your character – which you can then use to fight other characters. All in slick 3D, the site is great fun to use, with loads of nice animations and interactivity. Pretty unusual and engaging way of promoting a somewhat boring product!
Created by Roxik, who created Pictaps and developed the amazing Ecodazoo.
Interesting site from Orange, which allows you to create remixes of popular songs using your own voice and also encourages collaboration with your friends. Inviting you to record various sounds for different notes, you can also connect through Facebook and invite contacts to also record different notes. It then works by playing these notes in a sequence to a pre defined pattern to make songs, so far only a couple are there. A really funny idea, in the end encouraging you to join the Orange RockCorps collective to do community charity work. The site also looks great, with nice 3d transitions, great look and feel, lots of detail and also highly polished!
Created by Poke London.
Interesting site of Japanese interior design firm, Wonderwall, formed by Masamichi Katayama. Set around an amorphous wall of projects, quite literally a wonder wall, when you rollover the wall it morphs size and position dependant on mouse location. It really is the centre piece of the site, and is really fun to play with. A similar mechanism forms the way you go through photos for each project. Nicely designed, very crisp, but with a fun twist.
Created by one of my favourites Yugo P.
Fantastic site promoting HBO and it’s new project, much like the HBO Voyeur, HBO Imagine. Presenting a series of short films all shot from 4 different angles. The mechanism for viewing is a large 3d cube which you drag around to see the 4 different sides. There are several films to explore all through a floaty 3d interface. It is all highly polished with great transitions and animation, love the way you can explore the different videos. All very slick interactivity with interesting films, all directed by Noam Murro, complete a really cool online experience.
Created by BBDO NY and The Barbarian Group.
Interesting portfolio of French movie poster studio and marketing agency Silenzio. What makes this so accomplished is the animation and the 3d thumbnails of the posters, visually it is attractive and the animation really brings it to life. Nicely structured the posters can also be organised by alphabetical order, or explored through a 3d wall. Very cool…
Website promoting Nestlé ‘Born Better’ bottled water range. Placing you in 3d panoramas where you scroll around to pan your view of mountain vistas. Nicely designed with a great drag and pan mechanism, slick animation and a pretty good attention to detail.
Created by Your Majesty & McCann Worldgroup.
Site of Zeebee, a self declared ‘one man studio’ a talented Flash guy. Slick and nicely animated and well coded this site showcases the guy’s professional and personal work. Lovely sense of 3d and great 3d animation and transitions. The circle of his work is great fun just to play with and interactive with.
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.
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.
