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October 29, 2012
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Red Interactive Agency

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Portfolio site of Red Interactive Agency. Loads of really cool transitions and animations – using a grid based layout to highlight key projects, news, awards etc, clicking one flips it around and makes the whole background fade back and the project come forward. Love the transitions between sections and the attention to detail as different sections of the page animate in. Really modern site, with progressive enhancement – most of the animations work on iPad, mobile and so on, pretty cool…

Created by Red Interactive Agency, @REDinteractive.

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October 22, 2012
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Hennesey White Rabbit

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Site promoting Hennessy VS and their new campaign ‘what’s your white rabbit?’. Plunging you down the ‘rabbit hole’, and taking you to strange interactive 3d scenes, love the exploration feel to it all – moving you mouse around the scene,  clicking on strange objects and so on. Nice to see a site like this again, well crafted, fun to play with and looks great.

Created by Resn, @resn_has_no_i.

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October 19, 2012
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TCM Summer Under The Stars

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Summer Under the Stars is a campaign site promoting TV movie channel TCM’s summer schedule. You able to choose a wealth of famous movie stars such as John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe etc and explore their film history, bio, and so on. Setup as one long page with photos masked off revealing quotes, to a stand out quote treated typographically, content reveals and so on. Load and loads of really nice interactions, animations, and attention to detail – even the pre-loader is really cool.  It all feels like really rich and alive and fun to explore.

Created by One Trick Pony, @1trickpony.

Site here…

October 12, 2012
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Type / Code

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Portfolio site of Type / Code, NY based digital agency. Nice splash screen, 3d reactive particles! Projects displayed as one long list of accordions, revealing the contents on page, with the section splitting and moving down. Like the transitions between the main sections, very simple layout – nice example of a clear, clean well crafted site.

Created by Type / Code, @typecode.

Site here…

September 24, 2012
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DuJour

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Brilliant site for DuJour magazine, a minimal fashion spread. Great use of typography and photography – a real attempt to get that magazine feel on a site – each article has an overview as you scroll down, allowing you to quickly see the photos and read a snippet – when you explore an article the item spreads out to reveal more content. Love the sticky side navigation so it is always accessible – contents and main nav, contents is really useful for such a long site. Works well on tablet too, really modern fresh site which looks and acts great.

Created by Code and Theory.

Site here…

September 21, 2012
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Milwaukee Police

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No it’s not a film site or a teaser for a new video game – this is the site of Milwaukee Police News. Another vertical parallax scroller but again a really nice one – incredible to think that this is a site for a government agency – how did they achieve something that is not another bureaucratic legacy design. Love the different layers of depth when you scroll to another section and then the side swiping to reveal more content at that level. It’s the kind of content that people can relate to – statistics about what their local police force is achieving to the most wanted criminals, to basic FAQs such as ‘how do I pay my parking ticket’? Really modern take on a Police website.

Created by Cramer-Krasselt.

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September 19, 2012
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Cadillac ATS vs The World

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Setting Cadillac’s ATS car in different locations all of the world showing the car tackle things such as hand carved tunnels in China or the rough landscapes of Chile. The interface is lovely, really slick with clear distinctions between content and nice transitions. Another vertical parallax scrolling site – but a really good one – full of intelligent scrolling and carousels. What I like is the animation and transitions particularly, all coupled with large full screen images and great assets.

Created by Firstborn and Fallon.

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September 17, 2012
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Track ‘Em, Find ‘Em, Kill ‘Em

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Fun site promoting the movie ‘Expendables 2’. A tongue in cheek guide to the characters, techniques, and weapons seen in the film alongside survival tips, quotes and so on. Love the animated gifs and the descriptions – it’s all essentially a branded Tumblr feed. The art directions is cool, and love the simplicity and the humour.

Created by Watson DG.

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September 12, 2012
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ParaNorman

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Lovely site promoting the new film ‘ParaNorman’. You explore the site through scenes from the movie – through a side scrolling parallax effect – which is really smooth and responsive. There are small little snippets of the film, interactive sections (brushing his teeth, dragging zombies) one of the nicest parts of the site is the responsive nature. On iPad you shake the device to brush the teeth, moving the screen pans the scene, on mobile phones again a different experience. All non-Flash, really smooth, fun, and with incredible attention to detail and accounting for the range of different devices in a really interesting way.

Created by Wieden + Kennedy and Legwork Studio.

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September 3, 2012
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Mountain Dew

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Latest site of soft drink Mountain Dew. Really slick animations coupled with full on extreme sports styling is what this site is all about. Love the animations and the way the page splits to open up a section you click on. Really smooth rollovers and Flash-esque transitions, nice design all in all great example of what the latest web technologies can do.

Created by Firstborn.

Site here…

July 17, 2012
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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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July 3, 2012
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Welcome to the Bathtub

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Site promoting the film ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’, showing short clips of viewpoints from a character from the film and streaming latest tweets about the film. Beautifully simple, lovely full screen video and transitions, fun innovative menu a more exploratory site experience – really well crafted filmic site.

Created by WatsonDG.

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June 11, 2012
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Golden State of Mind

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Fun, bold, and colourful site for Pacific Sunwear of California. Large photography, bold colours, and parallax scrolling (this time vertically), but all combined make a very graphic presence – very simple in it’s execution but works wonderfully. Love the easing on the scroll – which makes such a difference on a site like this – makes for smooth scrolling experience.

Site here…