Fantastic typographic intro sequence for the art work of Eddie Goh. The pacing of the animation is really fantastic you really get the feeling of the transcript. The site itself is pretty strange too, but provides an interesting atmosphere to some nice work.
Created by yaw.
Cool promotion site for Orange in France and from what I can tell some cinema events. Nice stop motion animation with cardboard objects, really well animated and provides an interesting look and feel for the site. Nice interaction with the little elements and well animated characters – fun to play with and cool to look at.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Nice site which aggregates a daily news feed, featuring ‘Media-Man’, a character that shows emotional responses based on the content of the news feed! The character is composed of the text, it walks around on screen doing dances and so on, all in a very realistic way – looks motion captured. You can click on the guy to see the feeds that have composed him. Pretty cool…
Created by IMG SRC, Inc., Kaibutsu, and undefined Inc.
The Morisawa Font Park 2.0 is a playground for creating images from characters. By dragging characters onto the stage you can then scale, rotate, break apart and move the various letters. This is all done via a really intuitive interface that is very fluid and easy to use. You can also view a gallery of images other people have made, it even goes as far as to show the movements they made to create the final image. The polish and high level of coding makes this a really accomplished website.
Site of events company Lumina Live, specialising in creating interactive events in art, music, design and fashion. Whats cool about this site are the 3d transitions and that it is open for the audience to create their own pixel artwork on the site, sequence music and so on – you can create an identity and view other peoples additions to the site. The 3d pixellated background provides a subtle backdrop to the various sections of the site – sit back and view the videos and artwork and so on from a distance!
Created by Kilo Studio.
Interesting site that combines blog posts and images to make composite images of text and photos. Some of the results are pretty cool, I particularly like the typographic montages.
Created by httpcomunicacio.
Website of Singapore based singer/songwriter Leslie Low. Explore an environment inspired by the music which acts as a backdrop and soundtrack to the visual fly through. Lots of layers that affect the scenes through different blending modes and provide a very visually interesting experience. Talking about ‘experiential’ sites, this is a nice example, nice attention to detail and I like the ‘about’ section (leslie low button) where the artist talks through his history and inspiration – which all overlays the background.
Overall the site provides a calming diversion that makes you want to explore all aspects of the site and provides a nice insight into the artist.
Extensive collection of artwork from MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition with some 240 pieces. With such a mission to display this amount of work, a well conceived and executed navigation system has been produced. Each item is interlinked with varying categories and more detail can be seen. With such complexity the site is easy to use, and totally intuitive. The work in the site is amazing too, a really great website.
Created by the legendary tha ltd.
Another great Absolut microsite, promoting the visions of ‘an Absolut world’. Each vision can be opened up – the box unfolds -and shows a 3D animated vision. It provides a really nice user experience, and you can even upload your own. Really like the way the boxes open and reveal their contents – really cool. Lots more info here.
Created by Greatworks with the help of Papervision creator Carlos Ulloa.
Nice way of showcasing short films and installations. Showing 20 works from the last 20 years of Coventry School of Art and Design’s New Media Arts MA. Using Papervision 3D to allow the use to explore the material in an interesting way. Effective and fun site.
Created by Less Rain.
