The digital accompaniment of a new book documenting various animals love rituals. Love the minimal pared down approach which highlights various movements and behaviors the animals have – shown simply through moving shapes. Click on the animation and a page split appears and more information is shown. Nice transitions and love the unifying way of displaying the simple animations to highlight the various weird and wonderful ‘acts of love’.
Created by Projector Japan (@koichiroot).
Beautiful interactive music experience from artist Kamra. Watch as your face gets detected and peel off to become a 3D animated object navigating a landscape of sounds and surrealism. Beautifully executed with great dynamic 3D scenes, animation and visual storytelling. Fantastic way of pairing music with a dynamic, personalized interactive experience.
Created by Invisible Designs Lab (@invisi_dl) and dot by dot inc.
Site promoting new compilation album ‘Alma music box’ – a collaboration with various artists using data from space observatories in Japan. The site shows 3D rotating discs playing snippets from the album, highlighting some of the data used as rhythms – tying back to the idea of star constellations. Beautiful execution and interesting way of creating a new album microsite.
Created by Epiphany Works (@Epiphanyworks) and Party NY (@prty_ny).
Site of Japanese animator Ryoji Yamada. Love how the site starts, with flickering animations that spool up and represent the old zoetrope, eventually giving a vertically scrolling montage of the films. Click on a film and you see it in-situ. Love how the execution really reflects the medium.
Created by Ryoji Yamada (@ryojiyamada).
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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).
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.
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).
Fascinating site that uses peoples 3D data as a landscape to interact with. All executed through an experimental 3D interface where you pan and rotate your view. Feeling akin to something out of Blade Runner – the music the design – it is all an assault on the senses. The 3D bodies are moving around as you interact with the scene and you can play races that float across the moving 3D contours of the bodies. Love the 3D elements and the experimental look and feel, really cool to see digital experiences like this. Quite an experience…
Created by Bascule Inc (@Bascule_Inc).
Site of Tokyo Mild Foundation, Japanese film producers. Minimal layout and dark look and feel shows the projects on offer – stripped back and simple. Some nice transitions and some cute details bring it all to life, I like the slide out menu from the left and the ‘member’ section is nicely done.
Lovely online magazine site for Lexus Beyond. An app like experience for Lexus – and their magazine – a lot of competitors simply release an app to provide that rich design & user experience, but Lexus have created it all online which is quite a feat. Each article is individually animated and polished to a high degree to give a unique experience. This is all wrapped up in a simple interface which is easy to use and navigate – with nice transitions, layout, and design. Really worth exploring and getting into to see all the nice touches and details.
Created by Saatchi & Saatchi Fallon Tokyo Inc and SHIFTBRAIN Inc (@SHIFTBRAIN).
The ‘life color clock’ is a clock which pulls in images from Facebook and Instagram and takes pixel colour values from random places on the image and draws lines from these into the centre of the clock. All brought to you by Shiseido, a Japanese cosmetics brand, really minimal branding and typically Japanese style. The whole experience is really simple and elegant, you can sit back and just watch the whole thing draw out – the screen saver is pretty cool too.
Site promoting Yomitan village in Japan. Loads of nice interactions, animations, and transitions – all wrapped up in a minimal interface with large photography. Love the automatic scrolling – and the way scrolling occurs within the image masks – the way you you enlarge the images to view the detail. Loads of nice little touches.
Simple and sweet experience for Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo – promoting their latest exhibition ‘Urban Narratives’. Typography scrolls past reacting to mouse movement with streaks of colour. Really nice and simple.
