Site allowing you to experience situations through Carly’s eyes – she is autistic. It shows for example meeting someone for coffee and all the distractions she witnesses all in an interactive way – moving your mouse around changes focus. Simple, tasteful and interesting way for people to experience what it might be like to be autistic.
Created by john st.
Fun site for Castor Design a Canadian design firm. Love the high res image of shelf’s that you have to zoom in/out of – akin to Google Maps. Clean crisp design and interactivity – nice little touches and animations bring an element of playfulness to the site, lots of hidden content. Smooth animation and transitions – all good.
Created by TAXI.
Nice site promoting Cindy Sherman’s photography at MoMA. Nice simple, well designed, and well crafted photography site. Love all the attention to detail, the sliders, I like the depth of field look on non-selected projects. Many characteristics common with Flash, however it is not – nice transitions and effects too. Really nice site!
Created by Marc Kremers and Emil Olsson.
Portfolio of Josh Rhode design and creative director. Very clean and simple design, with some really nice work in there. Like the slick transitions and large images and nice bold typography. Simple, clean, and effective – nice work.
Nice site for Optimo hats, ‘life’s better with a great hat’. Premium styled, with nice transitions and layout, like the video backgrounds and the considered use of typography. Really like the ‘style’ section where you can see the whole range of hats and explore them from different angles. A surprising site for such a specialist subject, nicely designed & fun.
Created by We Cant Stop Thinking.
Nice site for Nike Better World, ‘The Journey’ follows athlete Jason Lester on a 102 day journey across America to show Americans Nike’s commitment to making a better world. I like the particularly clean approach to design and layout, and the nice considered usage of fonts. Nice little animations and again another vertical scrolling site, but this is a nicely executed well designed example.
Really nice site for Beyonce, the music superstar. Modern, fresh, and beautifully designed site, I love the amount of white space and the considered layout and typography. It looks more like a graphic design magazine than a best selling artist’s, it is considered design and fantastic photography, video, and interesting personal content.
Created by designedmemory.
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.
Site of Zeitgeist “A gallery of artistic exploration, experimentation and research into social media art, folksonomy art, interactive motion tracking art, and cell phone art.” What I like is the way you navigate the site, your view rotates and moves around the screen, I like even that you can scroll around the canvas too. The clean and minimal design accentuates the nice transitions between the sections and adds an element of movement which is really nice – it is also a very modern non-Flash site which also works well on iPads.
Created by variousways.
Portfolio of Creative Director and designer Ian Coyle the man behind projects such as Andrew Zuckerman: Bird and Nike Better World. Really nice way of presenting work and breaking the norm – using a notation style highlighting interesting parts of the project, from snippets of code to snapshots of navigation, and the things that made the project special. It takes an exploratory approach and is nice to scroll around and find the details. Very cool, modern and fresh portfolio with great work…
Wicked portfolio of Toronto based digital agency JAM3. Using very cool transitions and an interesting particle based 3d effect, every part of this site is slick and smooth. All the interactions have been carefully designed and animated, I love the transition between the projects and section with your view zooming around and the interface building and disappearing, all so detailed. Really great, modern and fresh portfolio showing what Flash can do.
Created by JAM3.
Portfolio for photographer Dean West with a slick interface. Love the scrolling through the thumbnails, a rich tapestry of photographs scrolling at different speeds gives a great feeling of depth and movement. A really nice portfolio site, well made and easy to use, slick, and fantastic transitions.
Created by Jam3.
Fun upbeat site promoting Aldo’s A/W 2011 range of footwear. Simple promotion – play 3 short games – i.e. pick a lucky shoe, and if you win all 3 you get a discount and might win ‘shoes for life’. Really simple site, but a lot of fun – brought to life by sound, music, and animation. Nicely put together and designed with a real emphasis on an upbeat and fun look and feel.
Site promoting the film ‘From The Rough’. Looks great and works nicely but I think what is important is that the whole site is non Flash – which is quite interesting – as it has non of the clunkiness and has all the nice smooth animations and transitions you might expect. It is quite impressive to see. The whole section containing the information about the site is quite a marvel allowing you to move around and explore – all in all a great showcase for what you can do right now with non Flash technology.
Created by Dilshan Arukatti & Sylvain Tran.
