Promoting IBM’s ‘power 7’ systems in South America, by means of an explorable technology lab. Lots of little interactive experiments – all via a first person 3D interface – the best I have yet seen. Really nice look and feel, great interactivity all wrapped up in a simple interface!
Created by Enigmind.
Site of Danish furniture all in a simple and elegant style. The site has a nice layout, smooth and simple animations – all in all a good site – would be a good layout for a portfolio or photographer’s site. Well made, simple and elegant.
Created by hello monday.
Slick site promoting the Lexus ES 350 in Russia. In keeping with the previous Lexus Russian sites, they are incredibly well realised, slick, and well designed. Simply an interactive catalogue, but full of nicely crafted 3d fly throughs and sequences, nice animations and transitions.
Created by Brand Studios.
Online exhibition showing the Polish AFA degree show’s finest items. An amorphous grid showing the items can be explored to find out more. Nice smooth animations and minimal look and feel – letting the work do the talking. Good transitions and layout.
Created by GoldenSubmarine.
Beautiful site promoting a historic Monet exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris in 2010. The site aims to bring Monet’s paintings to life, there is an interactive journey through Monet’s life and a gallery with his paintings. Great functionality when zooming into the paintings – fantastic attention to detail. I love the gallery section and the general look and feel – bright colours on canvas – esque backgrounds, lovely transitions, well integrated video – all wrapped up in a smart well designed interface.
Created by Les 84, and faberNovel.
A small interactive art project all in pixel style which projects the imaginary thoughts of a sleep girl into a never ending canvas of animations. I like it’s simplicity, the animations are fantastic, simple and beautiful.
Created by Richard Schumann, Kim Koster, Stephan Schulz and Johannes Bunemann.
Site promoting the Autumn / Winter 2010/11 collection of Lois Jeans. Interesting 3d interface, with 3d cubes constantly moving past to offer a nice sense of depth. With thumbnails of the latest clothes set into 3d triangles that constantly reorganise into new shapes – click on them to zoom in. Nice clean interface, well designed and works great.
Created by Nectar Estudio.
Portfolio of Croatian photographer Matko Stankovic. Interesting navigation, presented with a contact strip of thumbnails which show the full image, with the backdrop a blurred version of the original – providing a nice palette of colours for the background. Nicely designed, laid out, and developed.
Created by web.burza.
Impressive new site of extreme sports brand Airwalk. Nicely designed with smooth transitions and good layout, importantly it is an example of what non-Flash sites can achieve – it may not be super amazing in terms of animation and transitions etc, however it is a good benchmark of what is possible!
Created by Legwork Studio.
Portfolio of Japanese agency SISAN. Interesting tag based navigation, that turns images into respective tags which link through their whole portfolio and what they did for each project. Love the way the background image turns into tags and the way they link through to each project. A very unique and creative way of exploring their work. Very cool!
Site of Scotch & Soda, dutch clothing label. Smooth and simple site showing off their range, the homepage shows their main magazine style layout, with a nice bit of animation and interactivity. I like the collection section where we can explore an endless canvas of photos from their collection, nice way of exploring whats on offer. Simple, clean, and effective – love the homepage and collection section.
Nice little site for Japanese label Original Fake. Very slick and fast animation bringing to life a minimal interface. You can view the collection or look at the newest additions to the set, view by grid or by full screen. The zoom function is well implemented, and the fast smooth transitions are really nice.
Site of Scandinavian agency hellodave! Set in a slick dark interface with 3d panels flying around moving with your cursor. By clicking on the thumbnails all of the panels reorganise to show a video player for that project. Really nice animations and transitions – love the camera movement with your mouse – it is very very smooth, and the shading and lighting is well executed. Very nice…
Clean, slick, and simple website of Brazilian Creative Director Taua Baccarin. Showcasing his best work in a nicely laid out grid, highlighted by the smooth animation that really brings it all to life. The work is presented nicely in a sideways scrolling contact sheet style. Great combination of nice layout and great animation – good example of portfolio site.
