Lovely site for Japanese DJ and musician Kenji Endo. Lots of fun details hidden here, from 3D rollover mesh typography, embedded music players with accompanying sound reactive visuals, lots of little features. Nice layout and design, love the large type, monotone look and feel, with subtle splashes of colour.
Created by Stronghold (@spc_tips).
2015 saw a ‘leap second’ – everyone on earth had an extra second to play with. Android asked people to capture those moments and share with the world. The site itself is really well executed, with a great visual interface that captures the moments and themes of the submissions – with a larger video which combines all these moments into one clip. Love the 3D on this too, from the way the images enlarge and the lovely drag around interface – really works great on mobile too! Full of details and incredibly polished.
Created by Active Theory (@active_theory) and Droga5 NY.
Microsite promoting The Chemical Brothers new album ‘Born in the Echoes’. Using a sound reactive 3D hoop that responds to the various frequencies in the tracks – visualizing nicely the music, especially peaks in the bass and high notes. Site also allows you to create a playlist from an historic collection of Chemical Brothers tracks.
Fun site that maps attitudes of people across London by area and postcode! Best described by the creators: “The ambition of the project is to playfully showcase and compare London’s current social wellbeing levels by area whilst encouraging us to be more mindful of our everyday social interactions with strangers as we move through the city. If we are all more aware we can work towards shifting the stigma of a grumpy city and make London even more enjoyable to be in.” Love the 3D map they have created and the soft tones and interactivity of the scene. A lot of love has clearly been give to the development through the camera movements and transitions and the sense of personality in the design.
Created by We Are Clubhouse (@weareclubhouse).
Promo site for File Rec. an international underground electronic record label. The site explores a whole range of electronic music which is visualised through a 3D sound reactive pattern, which changes over time. Love the build up of layers with text, patterns, and shapes formed from large pixels. Love the minimal black and white design, and the subtle pause state of the music.
A journey through a 3D world filled with light, music and brooding darkness. Each scene is accompanied with a page from the story, each scene the jellyfish like creature following your cursor throughout each scene. Love the hints and sparks of light emanating from your cursor and how each scene is introduced – you get a real feeling of the 3D space as your view floats into the scenes.
Immersive site promoting the latest installment of the Divergent series of sci-fi films. Essentially mimicking the film – a series of tests designed to get you thinking, all rendered in 3D using a nice implementation of the virtual look around model. High production values and slick execution bring it all to life.
Created by Hybrid Studio.
Beautifully immersive 3D experience taking you on a visual and audio journey into a black hole. Featuring a sequence of interactive 3D scenes that beg to be played with. Expertly crafted, I miss seeing projects like this that just explore creativity using digital as a platform. Great to see Hi-Res creating work like this again!
Created by Hi-Res! (@hireslondon).
Generative 3D music video featuring music by popcorn_10. Each time you watch the video it changes, with colours, shapes and sequencing changing depending on the details in the music. Love the playful and colourful feel and the way the 3D shapes appear, collide, and interact with each other – a great bit of fun.
Created by Always & Forever (@georgealways).
Branding site for ANA Japanese airline that allows you to visualise your LinkedIn connections and their locations across the world – alongside the routes ANA flies. Love the 3D implementation here, the globe and routes visualised in a really nice way – love the way you zoom into a city and see all of your connections floating around. Nice dashboard features too summarising your connections and LinkedIn profile – lots of nice infographics and attention to detail. It looks great and is well crafted with a host of nice animations, transitions and effects.
Created by Dentsu and Firstborn (@firstborn_nyc).
Promo site for fashion brand House of Borel. Featuring a mysterious video walkthrough of small details, clicking on each ‘chapter’ reveals a secret layer behind the video highlighting details about the brand and their range of leather goods. Beautifully crafted, with 3D elements, love the dragging mechanism to scroll through the video – very cool and looks fantastic. Loads of attention to detail, nice sound and music, and really like the layout in the detail pages, full of video, depth and nice content – it all looks and works really great – really well crafted.
Created by blacknegative (@_blacknegative) and Immersive Garden (@Immersive_g).
Take an interactive journey through the iconic recording studio Abbey Road. Using a custom photo shoot and Google Streetview technology to show the insides of the famous studio. The amount of detail is incredible, from historic photos mapped to your viewpoint, inline videos of musicians, and even an interactive mixing studio. They used high res cameras to take ultra high detail of each panorama – if you read the about page you will really see the amount of detail and technical craftsmanship that has gone into this project. You can get lost exploring the studios and all the different views and snippets of information – it is a real feat and a real pleasure to explore – great piece of work.
Created by Google Creative Lab (@google).
Promo site for new French TV programme “The Witnesses”. Set in a crime scene where you pan your first person viewpoint across a crime scene accompanied by the cast of the show. Find clues – lovely draggable 3D objects – to help unravel the scene. Nice moody and dark look and feel, brought to live through slick animations and transitions and a bit of help from some 3D effects. Well crafted and immersive experience.
Created by HKI HelloHikimori (@hellohikimori).
Really interesting site for Creative Edge Parties – event planners and caterers based in NY. Love the creative approach to the project, packed full of personality with bouncing, pulsing interactive transitions – love the ‘play’ section of the site where interactive experiments take the stage. Every section of the site has something to play with or interact with – all a bit of fun. Lots of cool transitions and 3D elements and animations.
Created by Adam Hartwig (@ImAdamTM).
