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.
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.
Loving this site – going back to interactive experiences – essentially a pool party where you can choose your view through characters such as volleyball girl, skater guy, pizza guy, and so on – there are some 50 characters. It is really simple and fun, watching the party unfold through the eyes of all the characters – click on any of the characters at any time and see whats going on. It is set out much like a game with achievements like ‘dancing with the pool girls’ and so on, which activate additional content. Love the fun design and its simple fun purpose.
Created by Buzzman and Les 84.
Allowing you to explore old scriptures to show the history of typography. Some innovative navigation and layout allowing you to explore essentially lots of the same thing – but in an interesting and exploratory way. I like how you get an overview of a script which offers highlights before you explore it zoomed in. Really nice and a pleasure to explore.
Created by Les 84.
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.
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.
Brazilian site for the new Citroen DS3. Very slick Flash site full of transitions, effects, and nice animations – also looks amazing – nice to see a really slick looking car site again. You can customise a DS3 – basically colour, graphics and so on – I like the transitions between the sections too. Nice full screen video and so on – pretty cool stuff – love the art direction too…
Created by Rumba.
Love this site right now – lots of live streams and interactive experiments to play with
in collaboration with the Science Museum London and Google Chrome. For example live video streams from an aquarium in South Africa, to playing with a live orchestra in London, to having your face drawn in sand by a robot. I love the design and styling, all very slick and detailed – the attention to detail is incredible – when you are watching the live streams they are first represented by a circular shape when clicking on the feed you can pan around your view and take snapshots, when other people take snapshots a tiny counter is updated. The 3d is fast and smooth – the animations and transitions are spot on, the user experience too – from the menu to the buttons it all looks great. It feels like an old school detailed Flash site, but all in latest WebGL and emerging technologies – fantastic.
Created by B-REEL and Google.
Nice site promoting Google Chrome – a tie-in with Lego, a large Google map of Australia dotted with grids made up of lego bricks. As you zoom into the map you end up in a 3d view of places where people have created their own blocks and shapes which you can view from various angles. A bit of fun, clean integration and nice 3d effects.
Created by Mark and North Kingdom.
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.
Beautifully crafted site for French agency blacknegative. Adopting a style of navigation similar to an iPad app you click and drag between sections to see what blacknegative is all about and see their projects. Full of well considered animations and transitions, and most insterestingly it is all in HTML5/Javascript, the smoothness of the animations and style of transition is incredible. The integration with the minimal design and layout is fantastic – a top notch site.
Created by Sylvain Tran & Dilshan Arukatti.
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.
Really nice site for the Australian RDNS, which provides nursing and healthcare services for those in need. The site highlights the 130 year history through a really nice interface. Love the transitions and well designed and well thought out layout – in particular the scrolling left & right works a joy. Lots of nice attention to detail bits, nice icons and fun to use.
Created by Lava Web Creations.
Cool site for Lois Jeans marking their 50th Anniversary. Love the parallax vertical scrolling – really adds the feeling of depth and fun, like the faux depth of field look too. Shows ads and videos from their timeline – going back through time. Bit of fun and nice to play with.
Created by Nectarestudio.
