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September 10, 2013
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Hashima Island

By | @wengerstoybus | No Comments

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Fascinating site about Hashima Island – a small abandoned island once home to a coal mine – the town was abandoned quickly meaning much was left behind. Recently Google Streetview was made made available for the island and this site was put together focussing on interesting locations such as ‘stairway to hell’, and ‘block 65’. Desaturated and with eerie music the site offers a great wrapper for the fascinating imagery – a really atmospheric almost game like experience.

Created by Bryan James (@wengerstoybus).

Site here…

September 3, 2013
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TCM Summer Under the Stars 2013

By | @1trickpony | No Comments

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The 2013 version of Summer Under the Stars, a campaign site promoting TV movie channel TCM’s summer schedule. Focussing on the range of famous movie stars of a time gone by. Love the homepage carousel of profiles of the stars, scrolling goes into their respective bios, with a nicely designed scene summarising the actor.  Nice little section on what makes that person legendary too. Overall really slick transitions and animations from section to section, nice art direction and fun to play around with.

Created by 1 Trick Pony (@1trickpony).

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July 2, 2013
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Staring is Caring

By | @weareachtung | No Comments

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Nice idea to educate people about HIV in Africa. You are presented with three models – scrolling up reveals more skin – until you are greeted with the message to tweet to continue – thus spreading the message before seeing more. You can then scroll up and see the model (nothing explicit!) and learn a little about AIDS. Really nicely executed idea thats a bit of fun and educational – nice scrolling interface with some cool transitions.

Created by Achtung! (@weareachtung) and Superhero Cheesecake (@tastysuperhero).

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June 26, 2013
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Perfect Storms

By | @secretlocation | No Comments

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A micro site accompanying the History Channel’s ‘Perfect Storms’ tv show. A series of scenarios depicting the ‘perfect storm’ from Tokyo to Constantinople – you learn about what created these storms by a number of interactive scenes – for example fragging warm air across the atlantic and so on. Its a nice device to learn about how these storms are created and more more engaging than simply reading a paragraph about it. Some nice effects here and there and CGI heavy video scenes tie it all together.

Created by Secret Location (@secretlocation) and Entertainment One (@entonegroup).

Site here…