Pretty cool site promoting Blackberry in Brazil. Using Twitter feeds and Flickr images and videos, you can see ‘normal’ people using their Blackberry. These messages, videos, and images scroll by to give you a nice overview of what is possible using Blackberry products. Really nicely produced, lots of slick animations with a clean and crisp visual style. Nice to sit back and let it all roll by.
Created by Grafikonstruct.
Interesting site promoting Verbatim memory. Characters that are made up from memory sticks fight each other in an arena, you can answer a series of questions, each correct answer gives you more memory – in the end creating your character – which you can then use to fight other characters. All in slick 3D, the site is great fun to use, with loads of nice animations and interactivity. Pretty unusual and engaging way of promoting a somewhat boring product!
Created by Roxik, who created Pictaps and developed the amazing Ecodazoo.
Site allowing you to find music to go along with your production. A very very simple site but very well structured, slick and easy to use, essentially you select tags for the type of music you are looking for and mix match them to get music matching your selection – which you can then download. Lots of cool animation and slick rollovers and usual it looks very much like a Soleil Noir production, slick and simple.
Created by Soleil Noir.
Site promoting the new Nike Air Jordan M6 footwear. Described as ‘A multi media journey’ through the shoe, featuring designers and sportsmen the site showcases why the shoe is so great. Really like the interface and the fullscreen video, shot from interesting perspectives – shoe cam! Has all the necessary things in there, some slick animation and typography.
Created by Academy.
The Puma Index, very simple and fun, promoting Puma’s body wear. Linked to the stock exchanges, DOW for USA, DAX for Germany, and ASX for Australia, with each market a different male or female model. The premise is when the stock market goes down the models on show more of the Puma body wear, i.e. they take more clothes off. When the stock market is doing well they wear winter clothes and so on. Really fun and simple, with lots of clever touches, for example, the videos loop and occasionally crop to give the impression there is a lot more footage. They have managed to keep the design so clean and simple, love the touches on the icons and buttons. Overall a really nice site, very clever and nice way to see a range of Puma products, with loads of options to embed, download iPhone app, and so on.
Created by Perfect Fools.
Interesting site of Japanese interior design firm, Wonderwall, formed by Masamichi Katayama. Set around an amorphous wall of projects, quite literally a wonder wall, when you rollover the wall it morphs size and position dependant on mouse location. It really is the centre piece of the site, and is really fun to play with. A similar mechanism forms the way you go through photos for each project. Nicely designed, very crisp, but with a fun twist.
Created by one of my favourites Yugo P.
Portfolio site of photographer Marija Ivkovic. Created in quite a unique way – you navigate the photos by rolling over the various strips of grey, each representing a project. The longer the strip the more images in that project – when rolled over the contents are revealed, by simply leaving your mouse towards the bottom you navigate through the sets, there is a zoom function also. Nicely animated with some great photos in there – pretty cool stuff.
Created by Service Room.
Fantastic site promoting HBO and it’s new project, much like the HBO Voyeur, HBO Imagine. Presenting a series of short films all shot from 4 different angles. The mechanism for viewing is a large 3d cube which you drag around to see the 4 different sides. There are several films to explore all through a floaty 3d interface. It is all highly polished with great transitions and animation, love the way you can explore the different videos. All very slick interactivity with interesting films, all directed by Noam Murro, complete a really cool online experience.
Created by BBDO NY and The Barbarian Group.
Interesting landing page that caught my attention of fashion label Anteprima. The page scrolls across with a mix of photos and videos, an interesting way of showcasing the label’s collection instantly, it is nice enough to just sit and watch the photos & video scroll by. The rest of the site is very straight forward but I loved the landing page, very interesting.
Created by FICC inc.
Portfolio of photographer Zhang Jingna. Clean, elegant design with beautiful photography, set in an interface that suits the work well. Simple interactivity, easy to use and nice simple, elegant animation.
Created by do not design.
Another fantastic website from Uniqlo, promoting their 2009 collection. Presented with a full screen video with models walking on a giant cross, wearing Uniqlo clothing, with numbers and markers highlighting the style number following their movements. When you click on a style another video loads with the model walking alone along the giant cross, allowing you to see in detail what they are wearing. Cool music and nicely shot video assets, love the transition from the main video to the individual videos… very cool.
Site showcasing SAAB, it’s history and philosophy, with the aim to show the audience SAAB’s perspective. Nicely designed and produced beautifully this simple site has several small interactive experiences highlighting certain features of the car. I really appreciate the minimal design, well considered layout, with fantastic assets and playful interactivity, one of the best examples of the ‘desktop’ interface I have seen – great attention to detail.
Created by Acne Digital.
Site of Zeebee, a self declared ‘one man studio’ a talented Flash guy. Slick and nicely animated and well coded this site showcases the guy’s professional and personal work. Lovely sense of 3d and great 3d animation and transitions. The circle of his work is great fun just to play with and interactive with.
Simple site promoting the NSW Collection Fall 2009 from Nike. Very minimal and focusing on video and photographic details of the clothing. Love the slow motion of the models running and then the transtion between full motion and slow, nice visual effects too. Cool rollovers on the full shot of the items, and nice art direction, with new videos released monthly.
Created by OrdinaryKids and Dual Forces.
