environment

Into the Arctic

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Lovely site for Greenpeace documenting their effort to claim the North Pole for nature – and highlighting peoples attempts to exploit the Arctic for resources. The story centres around a 3d map of the region which zooms and pans as you explore the timeline. There is lots of information about the animals in the area and the companies responsible for exploiting the region. All tied together with well considered typography and ‘app’ like design with sliding panels and large touchable buttons and icons. Really informative and loads of animations and transitions – all wrapped up in a great interface.

Created by hellomonday (@hellomondaycom).

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Healing Histories

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Healing Histories is an interactive documentary highlighting New Orleans recovery from the hurricane Katrina that destroyed much of the area. Love the simple interace with rich assets and imagery,  the transitions and animations are very much ‘app’ esque with smooth movement and useful metaphors. Really nice site looks like it was designed for ‘touch first’.

Created by Legwork Studio.

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Bear 71

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Bear 71 is a stunning interactive documentary about a female bear’s movements over 8 years, after she was caught in 2001 by wildlife officers in the Banff National park, Canada. Explained by Creative Review, “The project’s co-creators Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes decided to turn the 1m photos taken during the time of Bear71’s monitoring into an interactive project with the help of the National Film Board of Canada’s digital studio, NFB Interactive, and have Bear71 herself as the narrator of the story (she is voiced brilliantly by actress Mia Kirshner)”, link.

I love the execution, a lot of thought has gone into how best to present this wealth of information in an interesting and interactive way. Featuring a 3d map you explore made of dots that represent the terrain, trees, rivers, roads, hills and so on – you get a real feeling of depth. Bear 71 can be seen walking around the environment, triggering video events and so on, there are also all the other ‘characters’ in the park, golden eagles, lynx, deer, cougars, wolfs, other people (shown by a webcam snapshot when you start the site) which roam the park. It really is a fascinating experience offering a unique insight to the life of a bear in a human world, the trials they face, the dangers and how we affect their world. All presented in an innovative, beautiful and interesting way. Really great work…

Created by NFB Interactive.

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Dhanja – Nespresso

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Beautiful site promoting Nespresso’s new Dhjana coffee blend from sustainable sources. You discover the sources of the coffee panning around the scene. Full of stunning animations and smooth transitions, the site is brought to life. It looks fantastic, full of polish and well designed, amount of detail is incredible from the smallest of animations to buttons and so on. There is also a great soundtrack – it is full of sound – which really ties it all together. Really beautiful…

Crafted by Soleil Noir and Lowe Stratus.

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The Planet Zero – Nissan

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Beautiful site promoting Nissan’s ideas of a zero emissions future. Featuring an interactive 3d world  full of cute characters featuring interactive demos of how renewable energy can be used, all through the control of a small plug like character – you explore the world as you wish. Very similar to the stunning ‘Ecodazoo’, it is in fact directed by the same guy ROKIX. I love the way you control the main character and the 3d world is beautifully realised as are the characters. Incredible attention to detail and amazingly crafted and fun to use – all in all amazing.

Created by ROXIK, ENJIN, and Dwarf.

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Have a Camper Day

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Beautifully crafted weather forecast app and site for clothing label Camper. Proposing that all weather forecasts are boring Camper have made this lovely little site and app where you choose your location and a fun interactive animation plays showing the current weather. For example the sun is made from shoes laces, when clicked plays a harp sound, when it is raining you can interact with the laces resembling rain. Incredible attention to detail down to the icons, sound, animations, transitions, it looks fantastic – really nicely designed.

Created by Herraiz Soto & Co.

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Sodra Pulp Labs

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Site challenging everything we know about paper and pulp. Highlighting 3 main projects showing the stages in each of the projects, all showing the need for sustainability and care of our environment. Integrating videos, Twitter, YouTube etc, and allowing Facebook users to comment. Nice and simple interface with really nice animations and look and feel. Users can also follow all updates in the projects via RSS and email.

Created by Garbergs and Public Class.

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Andrew Zuckerman – Bird

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Clean, elegant design promoting Andrew Zuckerman’s new book ‘Bird’. Set in a minimal interface Andrew Zuckerman’s photography comes to life, with the vibrant colours and dynamism of his subjects shining through. Beautiful photography in a great setting, I like the way the menu minimises to really focus on the photography.

Created by Ian Coyle.

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Norwegian Oil – 40 Years

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Norwegian Oil 40 Years

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.

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Thoughtpile

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Nice site that presents thought provoking questions and asks the audience to contribute and rate ideas – the best is awarded a Herman Miller chair. Created in a 3d floating interface that allows you to fly through the responses and see how they are rated. A clean crisp interface makes navigation simple and an interesting rotation ‘wheel’ can be dragged around to zoom in/out and rotate the scene. Nicely crafted, simple and effective.

Made by Freedom & Partners.

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ULeChang

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Surreal parallax vertical scrolling experience! Interesting site that you explore by means of the arrow keys to see random facts about our world. Just a nice distraction with good illustrations and interesting messages. I like the scrolling and the look and feel – pretty cool.

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The Eco Zoo

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The Eco Zoo

Beautiful, stunning work! Not quite sure what it is for – but it is inspiring you to take better care of the environment. Just simply an amazing website. Built around a cut out concept where the stories of various characters are told, through a cut out look and feel executed in a 3d fashion. When you click on a character your view zooms to the pop up book of their story, the beauty of it is the panning and rotating of the camera around the book, there is a huge attention to detail – by rotating the view you can see more details and explore the scene. I love the concept and the look and feel of the whole site, it is truly inspiring – where technology and design meet in unison – the 3d element is smooth and perfectly executed, the visuals are great and fun.

Created by the ultra talented Masayuki Kido, known as ROXIK – of Pictaps fame. He used his own 3d engine ‘Sharikura’.

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Whalefootage

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Whalefootage

Footage of whales to increase awareness of their plight. Really slick site – the best use of video in terms of interacting and navigating I have seen. For each bit of footage small images are placed apparently at each keyframe, these images change as the cursor is moved across the timeline. For each whale a small thumbnail of each video is played, all very minimal and stylish. Its a great site with lots of really good touches and great attention to detail.

By Scholz & Volkmer.

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