Site for artist Habid Fadel. Beautifully crafted and slick experience to experience the melody of colours and expression that is the artist’s work. Love the homepage and the transitions to the individual artworks, and the seamless transition to a zoomed in image. Full of little animation notes and expressions that lift the whole experience.
Created by Ultranoir (@ultranoir).
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Lovely site which brings to life physics based digital artworks. Love the stripped down minimal look, with simple and elegant layout, animations, and transitions. Really fun to explore the scrolling menu and play with all the experiments.
Created by Kenji Saito (@kenji_special).
Fun site of short and sweet interactive experiments. Really fun stuff playing with shapes, physics, lines to create mesmerising and colourful digital artworks. Great to play around with and explore, all wrapped up in a minimal interface that is a pure simple form.
Created by Toshiyuki Nagashima / Kakarod.
Site promoting Offprint London – a travelling art fair highlighting the publishing of art. Interesting book style layout, that as you scroll swipes horizontally across the page – book style fonts too. Like the way you navigate the site, and the minimal look and feel.
Created by Studio Laurenz Brunner.
Nice site celebrating 1000 Chrome Experiments – containing all the various Chrome Experiments published over the years. Love the fun exploratory interface, that is just fun to play with and explore. The way it loads in the experiments without pushing you out to the various sites is also well thought out, preloading the content and making it easy to go back to the homepage. Like the way you can visualise the grid in various ways, and even a mini script editor so you can play around with it yourself!
Created by Google Creative Labs (@google).
Surreal and beautiful – a ‘walking simulator’ – probably best described as an immersive interactive digital short film. Starting in the woods you guide your character along a path – you control your view from a 360 degree camera. You explore your environment, clicking brings your character to investigate a certain spot on the ground. It gets more surreal the further you explore, across various environments – a real feat in interactive storytelling. Love the way it totally immerses you into this strange world, drawing you in further and further. Beautifully executed and well crafted – nice to see more of this kind of thing that really highlights the potential of the interactive medium.
Created by Vincent Morisset and friends, AATOAA (@vmorisset).
Nice refresh of the The Great Discontent website, a magazine about creativity, entrepreneurship, and risk taking. The online version is a beautifully laid out variant of the printed magazine, with lovely typography and nice photography. Nicely considered for the screen, with nice big copy for reading the interviews and the pull out quotes – nicely structured too, easy to find other articles and browse around. And it is responsive too, nicely done…
Created by The Great Discontent (@greatdiscontent).
Unique site for photographer Enrico Floriddia. Love the CV-esque approach that explains the work through writing rather than simple thumbnails, click on one of the projects and viola thumbnails appear, click on them and see how it all expands. Really nice, unexpected, original execution of a portfolio website.
Created by Raphael Bastide (@raphaelbastide).
Lovely site promoting Kenzo’s Fall 2014 range – aiming to replicate a gallery experience from the browser and in 3D! You can connect your mobile device to use it as a trackpad to navigate the 3D gallery or use your mouse to move around the space. On the walls of the galleries are video pieces and images which you can peruse at your leisure. The exploratory nature of the interface is crafted well, and looks great, nice clean lines and moody lighting – I love that you exit through the shop where you can see the items from the gallery!
Created by DVDTKM (@kimbouti) and Cyril Agosta.
Great site that explores the use of colour in films. Displays the average colour of a set of frames from the films, even allowing you to see that individual frame – love the way you can see the whole strip of colours and navigate through the frames. Really interesting results, great idea and well crafted.
Created by Charlie Clark (@clarkcharlie03).
Lovely responsive site for the McColl Center, which is a center “for Art + Innovation empowers artists to advance community through the creative process.” this is their site. Looking more like a design magazine it is beautifully designed – from the typography to the layout and photography, all feeling very fresh. Proof that responsive design does not have to be boring and boxy.
Created by Studiobanks (@studiobanks).
A series of interviews with artists spanning various disciplines. Really interesting layout and interactions used here, love the multi-layered approach, offering a sense of depth. Zooming in/out of the layout gives different layers of information, particularly like the menu – which shows a summary of how long the interview is – also like the way you can select a category of interview i.e. process, chaos etc. Really slick motion and transitions, and it’s great to see a site that isn’t a simple parallax scroller page. Full of rich interactivity and a nice take on a video site.
Created by Use All Five (@useallfive) and Active Theory (@active_theory).
Interesting piece from a collaboration between the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei & Olafur Eliasson. A blank moon, a 3d sphere you can rotate and zoom in/out of – open for everyone to draw upon. Typically these kind of things are curated and censored, but this is open for anyone to do whatever they want. So you can imagine what is there, but there is also little nuggets, drawn by the creators themselves, there are inspiring quotes, nice sketches, and interesting patterns. The drawing part is fun, you claim a spot and can draw easily – all a bit of fun. Interesting to see what people but up – representing a wide international spectrum of people. Described in the ‘about’ section – “Leave your fingerprint and see the shared moon grow as others reach out too. Let’s show the world that together our marks matter. Creativity defies boundaries.”
Created by Ai Weiwei (@aiww) and Olafur Eliasson (@olafureliasson).
Site promoting MoMA’s exhibition on Magritte. Allowing you to explore Magritte’s surrealist paintings – in depth – or simply skim through them through a blend of music and typography. The information for each painting is detailed and interesting, with x-rays, background insights – which adds a nice layer to explore. The layout is pretty interesting too, with background colours morphing to fit the hue and colour for each painting.
Created by Hello Monday (@hellomondaycom).
