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.
One of the nicest portfolio sites i’ve seen for a while, this time for hair and makeup artist Lasse Pedersen. Highly polished, using full screen imagery to really convey his work. Love the way you can navigate the images, and clicking the images brings them to fullscreen enabling you to pan around – animates really nicely. Even the rollover effect on the thumbnails is great, you rollover and you can then pan around the image, fantastic attention to detail, great work…
Created by Pelle Martin and Flex Nielsen.
Website of Norwegian design consultancy Bleed. Pretty cool website, all the things you would expect from a polished agency portfolio – but with a bit more attitude, love all the rollover effects and the clean simple animation style. They showcase their work in a really clean elegant way.
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.
Interesting site from Orange, which allows you to create remixes of popular songs using your own voice and also encourages collaboration with your friends. Inviting you to record various sounds for different notes, you can also connect through Facebook and invite contacts to also record different notes. It then works by playing these notes in a sequence to a pre defined pattern to make songs, so far only a couple are there. A really funny idea, in the end encouraging you to join the Orange RockCorps collective to do community charity work. The site also looks great, with nice 3d transitions, great look and feel, lots of detail and also highly polished!
Created by Poke London.
Project X – take Shaun White and a huge backcountry half pipe with foam pit, film Shaun going off the charts, put results online! Currently in teaser format but with loads of videos, photos, and snippets of info. Apparently Shaun has really pushed the boundaries of progressive pipe riding in this project – so looking forward to seeing the results. Videos are really cool, also giving behind the scenes footage of how they created it all. Nicely designed too, with each section having parallax animation giving a senstation of depth. Nice transitions and rollovers and so on, all in all a pretty cool site.
Created by Archrival.
House of Orange – Model agency / hair, makeup, and styling agency / photography agency. Nice, simple and effective portfolio of their talent. Really like the way the images build up in different sizes and with a random selection shown each time. Cool transitions with contrast burns and so on.
Created by Random.
Portfolio of Norweigan photographer Thomas Brun. Standard but well considered, simple portfolio site with nice animations and the functionality you come to expect from such sites – zoom in, fullscreen and so on. Nicely designed with several clever touches, straight to the point.
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 of interactive designer / developer Martin Anderle. Pretty simple, with some nice touches and animation – I like the particles moving around the screen – they form colour and shape on rollover of the individual project thumbnails. It looks great and provides a fantastic moving montage of colour and shape.
Promotional site of Adidas’ Y3 Fall/Winter collection 2009. Styled in the form of satellite imagery, you can browse the various styles from a top down perspective, clicking on one gives you a video of the style rotating 360 degress. With highlights from the ‘look’ being displayed – also allowing you to zoom in and so on. Love the style and the transitions – heavily pixellated sometimes with distortion, nicely done. Lots of cool transitions and the usual flair from Adidas / Sid Lee.
Created by Sid Lee.
