Site for the Mirage Festival – an art, design, and innovation event set in Lyon, France. Bold use of typography and colour through the site, from the photography treatment. Love the interactive undulating waves that move around as you mouse over the waves – a persistent element that flows into the subsequent pages of the site. Could watch the homepage for hours! Nice work…
Created by Cecile + Roger (@rbgaillard) and Martin Laxenaire (@webdesign_ml).
Beautiful interactive music experience from artist Kamra. Watch as your face gets detected and peel off to become a 3D animated object navigating a landscape of sounds and surrealism. Beautifully executed with great dynamic 3D scenes, animation and visual storytelling. Fantastic way of pairing music with a dynamic, personalized interactive experience.
Created by Invisible Designs Lab (@invisi_dl) and dot by dot inc.
Fantastic musical interactive experience for Because celebrating 10 years and 20 classic artworks. Hold down the spacebar to randomly select an artist and play with the artwork – ranging from dragging trees, lighting up a city, playing with gravity, etc etc. Each one is very cool and triggers the playback of the track – with animations, video and interactivity. Love this kind of thing – this is what the medium is all about, creating compelling interactive experiences that can only be done with the interactive medium. Beautifully executed with slick animations, fantastic transitions, pulled together with elegant UI and a nice bit of storytelling.
Created by 84.Paris (@84Paris_live).
Beautiful 3D musical experience for band Helios and their new album Yume. Drag around the various 3D shapes to mix various elements from the tracks in the album. Different scenes have different music, love the way when you add bass or drums the landscape reacts – either in a sound reactive vibration or adding new 3D shapes into the mix. Site is minimal and simple which allows the music to take centre stage, a really beautiful and thoughtful site.
Created by WhiteVinyl (@whitevinyluk).
Lovely site commissioned by the V&A in England. Featuring a series of CCTV footage overlooking London’s landmarks and its inhabitants. The interface allows you to tag and track people and objects, which is a lot of fun. Love the playful nature of the site, and sheer delight in losing time watching events and people traverse the capital.
Created by Kyle McDonald (@kcimc).
A journey through a 3D world filled with light, music and brooding darkness. Each scene is accompanied with a page from the story, each scene the jellyfish like creature following your cursor throughout each scene. Love the hints and sparks of light emanating from your cursor and how each scene is introduced – you get a real feeling of the 3D space as your view floats into the scenes.
Beautifully immersive 3D experience taking you on a visual and audio journey into a black hole. Featuring a sequence of interactive 3D scenes that beg to be played with. Expertly crafted, I miss seeing projects like this that just explore creativity using digital as a platform. Great to see Hi-Res creating work like this again!
Created by Hi-Res! (@hireslondon).
Fun site of short and sweet interactive experiments. Really fun stuff playing with shapes, physics, lines to create mesmerising and colourful digital artworks. Great to play around with and explore, all wrapped up in a minimal interface that is a pure simple form.
Created by Toshiyuki Nagashima / Kakarod.
Site of design magazine The Great Discontent. Lovely editorial layout, large imagery and great fonts. Love the article pages, with all the various details that make it a pleasure to read. Nice considered use of white space and use of imagery. Feels super crisp and clean and well designed, with insightful and interesting content.
Created by Ryan Essmaker (@ryanessmaker).
Nice site celebrating 1000 Chrome Experiments – containing all the various Chrome Experiments published over the years. Love the fun exploratory interface, that is just fun to play with and explore. The way it loads in the experiments without pushing you out to the various sites is also well thought out, preloading the content and making it easy to go back to the homepage. Like the way you can visualise the grid in various ways, and even a mini script editor so you can play around with it yourself!
Created by Google Creative Labs (@google).
Simply put an online magazine highlighting Danish architecture and design. Love the editorial style and design, slick and simple and with nice typography. Really fresh feeling layout accentuated with neat touches – such as the Danish logo animating when the content is loading. The site works really well across different devices and responds well to layout changes. A good example of a modern, well crafted editorial style site.
Created by Spring/Summer (@SprngSmmr).
Surreal and beautiful – a ‘walking simulator’ – probably best described as an immersive interactive digital short film. Starting in the woods you guide your character along a path – you control your view from a 360 degree camera. You explore your environment, clicking brings your character to investigate a certain spot on the ground. It gets more surreal the further you explore, across various environments – a real feat in interactive storytelling. Love the way it totally immerses you into this strange world, drawing you in further and further. Beautifully executed and well crafted – nice to see more of this kind of thing that really highlights the potential of the interactive medium.
Created by Vincent Morisset and friends, AATOAA (@vmorisset).
A series of short films by creative innovators such as Damon Albarn and Tom Dixon about the impact of technology on the creative process and the opportunities out there. Nice take on an interface, vert stripped back and minimal with some nice film work too.
Created by WeTransfer (@WeTransfer).
