Slick site promoting Lands’ End womens swimwear. Some really nice features and attention to detail in this site, all tied together with some colourful visuals. I particularly like the ‘runway’ mode, where you can scroll through all of the swimwear, with nice multi level parallax scrolling, with zooming in and panning – they’ve done a really nice job of it. Lots of cool rollovers and nice typography makes this a fun site use and nice to look at.
Created by RED Interactive Agency.
Brazilian site promoting Banana Cafe clothing. Using the newspaper visual metaphor to display the range of clothing and copy. The nice thing about this is that they have created it all in 3d, using the loading screen to give a brief tutorial on using the interface, you click and drag to move around – with the paper tilting and panning realistically. What I love about it is the level of detail – on top of the paper are 3d objects you can drag around and interact with, they even collide with each other. For example there is a London bus, you click it and then you can drive it around the newspaper, you can click and drag the individual headphones on the iPod, etc etc. When you view the photos they come out of the newspaper and enlarge so you can see them better. Love all the attention to detail and the interactivity, it also happens to look great, really cool site…
Created by Fábrica Do Design.
Incredible game ‘Windosill’. Featuring several puzzle games that involve you getting your ‘character’ through rooms, each with small interactive games. Amazingly detailed and crafted, you are dropped into a world of 3d objects that you can drag around and play with, everything feels very tactile and interactive. For example you can drag the small part of the ‘i’ in windosill and place it into the small hole in the wall to get to the next room. You can play the first half for free online to complete the game you have to play $3. Really cool…
Created by Patrick Smith, Vectorpark.
Entertaining site accompanying the BBC kids show ‘Big & Small’ – designed for children aged 3-6 and their parents. The site is a playground, with little interactive games and experiences such as hand painting, music, videos and so on. But what makes this so remarkable is the depth and polish of the site itself. Set within a detailed 3d environment you explore the setting via the interactive experiences, with your mouse affecting your view. But it isn’t just the way it looks, the interactive sections are really a lot of fun, each of them highly polished, with great animations and sound fx – it’s been a while since i’ve interacted with a site like this for so long! For example there is a small game where you have to try and brush the teeth of one of the characters and the toothpaste spreads all over the 3d items in the bathroom, the sink, the mirror etc. Another where one of the characters jumps on the bed and the bed surface reacts to his movement. The little touches all add up to make a fantastic website with incredible use of Papervision – really detailed environments, highly interactive, and really well designed.
Created by Plug-in Media. Really nice write up from Seb Lee-Delisle one of the team members that helped shape Papervision.
Website showing the relationship the Norwegian people have with oil. ”The Norwegian oil story written by Norwegians’, the site allows each of Norway’s 5 million citizens to share how oil has affected their lives, and their country. Interesting way of presenting the thoughts and stories of people through bubbles, oil if you like, floating around in water. Love how the bubbles fill the screen and become slightly transparent – with the inside showing pictures and text mapped to the surface of the bubble, with your mouse moving around your view. Each of the sections of the site are very interactive and fun to play around with, where you can pick up and drag around bubbles and so on. Well designed and all the Flash is well produced with a high level of detail. Very cool!
Created by Fi.
Portfolio site of photographer Hiroshi Seo. Slick timeline based interface which allows you to quickly scroll through thumbnails of his photos. Each of the thumbnails are 3d and flip upwards, much like a vertical coverflow interface, and organised upon time – on click the photo enlarges. Really like the scrolling interface, and the whole minimal slick look & feel. All in all a very nicely made photographers portfolio with some really nice touches with smooth fluid animation, nice interface that fits the content well.
Created by Murakami Design.
Site of Diesel’s new fragrance, ‘Only The Brave’. Based around a series of 3d cubes featuring ‘performances’ when opened show 3d rooms with video and designs featuring work by the likes of Mr Doob, Nico Stumpo, Eboy, and Hellohikimori, and many more to come over the next few months. You can also see the print ads and see the bottle the fragrance comes in. Yes another 3d site, this is quite nice though, it’s a cool idea to use modern digital artists to create the 3d rooms, the rooms themselves are pretty interesting, although unfortunately it just reminds me of the Absolut ‘In an Absolut World’, but essentially they have put their own spin on it. Also they have used a physics engine on the 3d blocks, so when each section loads the boxes interact with each other, overall a nice site!
Created by Hellohikimori.
Interesting site promoting Foxtel’s IQ TV box, the site allows you to create an ‘interactive 3d portrait’ of yourself. Using photographs, words, stories, Twitter feeds, and so on – users can make a tiled 3d image of themselves which they can share with friends, Facebook etc. What I like about it, is the 3d build up of the ‘i am unique’ text made up of photos, and the way you interact with the scene, also the way the portrait is made up of various bits such as uploaded photos and descriptive words. Overall design is nice and simple, with a lack of overwhelming branding, the 3d portrait is a bit buggy but the idea is pretty nice…
Made by Lowe Sydney.
Very simple site of ‘I Kiss Fitness’, a personal training company. A very minimal, simple site outlining the company and it’s services, what I liked about it was the pretty cool use of 3d, bending images and especially the way the text explodes as you move your view around in the different sections, thats it!
Created by madebyg.
Website of artist Keith Tyson. Nice site which presents the works of Keith Tyson, presented in a floaty 3d space, you select projects and then view them from within a circular interface. A well designed site, with a clear interface and all the features you come to expect, but all done in an excellent way. Nice attention to detail, interface and look & feel, a great example of an online gallery…
Created by De-contruct.
Site promoting the new England football shirt. This site goes for the angle of showing the craftsmanship and history of the England shirt, how the design has changed over the ages and how it is today. Nicely designed to reflect the shirt the site itself is well crafted – you move your view around a nice 3D area with the different sections of the site located in various places, your perspective changing swiftly through the scene. I like the rotating view of the new shirt with the different features highlighted – with a really nice panning detailed photo of each feature. The site also looks great, lots of nice touches and cool buttons, all with that ‘hand crafted’ look which the site is aiming for. Great animation and transitions and nice use of 3d, draws you into exploring all the different sections of the site, pretty cool…
Created by Perfect Fools and Anomaly.
Mental old school Flash site of Piet Dewijngaert, a Flash guy from Belgium. Featuring lots of nice touches this site harks back to the old days of experimentation and weird interfaces, kudos to the guy for using it in his professional portfolio! Love all the bits of interactivity, transitions and animation.
Portfolio of Darek Nyckowiak, Polish Flash guy. Some interesing use of 3d to show off his projects, giving the option of viewing his work in 3 ways, nice animation and interactivity, all presented in a clean, easy to use way.
Beautiful site of 26000 Vodka, a vodka from New Zealand that is made from water which is 26,000 years old. Really well designed, a lovely interface, and simplicity at it’s core. Your navigation is presented with droplets of vodka, freeze framed in a 3d interface along with the main navigation, your viewpoint pans and tilts as you move your mouse – all giving a nice perception of depth. Each of the sections have a similar effect and navigation highlighting it’s ingredients, recipes, downloads and so on. You pick up small facts and info along the way, between each section are short questions (relating to 26,000 years) or ‘vodka secrets’. I love the play with the depth of field and the subtle 3d, which is not intrusive or detractive. As you navigate the site you feel inspired by the subtle interactivity and simplicity of the whole thing. Even the age check is done nicely, lot’s of attention to detail, nice animation and transitions, great sound design, and mostly you come away feeling enchanted and learning something about the product… fantastic.
Created by Resn.
