Site of French interactive studio Werkstatt. Beautiful scrolling system for looking through their portfolio – quite original. Like the way they present the projects through videos and in-situ screenshots. Great design and all crafted to high standards.
Groundbreaking site promoting Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s new album ROME, an interactive 3d music video. This is the future of immersive web technologies, lately several sites have used WebGL to power 3d web based experiences – so far this is the best and most creative use I have seen. Directed by the talented Chris Milk, who previously also worked on the ‘The Wilderness Downtown’ project, amongst others. In joint conjunction with Google to also promote the Chrome browser – it works best in Chrome – sadly not at all in some browsers.
Mixing drawn scenes, video, music and 3d elements – it is one of the most immersive cinematic sites I have ever seen. You control your perspective in each scene, viewing through the eyes of the main character. In several scenes such as driving through the crumbling city, where you point your mouse 3d animated objects come flying out of the walls. It is not just the execution but the entire idea and the scenes, music, everything really – it is quite beautifully realised. There is even a section where you can add your own created objects into one of the scenes, so it is constantly evolving – the detail and thought into this all is truly staggering.
It reminds me of the days of the internet when people were making sites for the sheer interactive experience of it all, to push the boundaries and try new things that have yet to be seen. In some ways it reminds me of the also groundbreaking site of the film, ‘Requiem for a Dream’. This is truly inspiring unforgettable experience, coupled with fast, smooth, ground breaking technology this is a landmark website.
Crafted by Google Creative Lab, Chris Milk, North Kingdon, radical.media, and Mirada.
Nicely crafted site for HTC in Denmark. Nice 3d interface where you zoom into stories about the HTC phone and it’s features. Nice mixture of product photography and line drawings and video from YouTube. 3D interface is smooth, great transitions, and looks great.
Created by relax we are the good guys, and Bocca.
Site of Rohrbacher specialists in creating beautiful luxury jewellery. Set in an elegant design and layout, gentle transitions and detailed high res visuals. There is a section where you can customise watches, changing the strap, facade, and so on. Beautifully made and realised.
Crafted by Netsuperstar.
Beautifully crafted weather forecast app and site for clothing label Camper. Proposing that all weather forecasts are boring Camper have made this lovely little site and app where you choose your location and a fun interactive animation plays showing the current weather. For example the sun is made from shoes laces, when clicked plays a harp sound, when it is raining you can interact with the laces resembling rain. Incredible attention to detail down to the icons, sound, animations, transitions, it looks fantastic – really nicely designed.
Created by Herraiz Soto & Co.
Site from Edding markers and pens, essentially a huge whiteboard where people can leave their creation using the range of edding pens. The great feature is that it is all in real time with other people, you can watch people draw, interfere or leave comments, there are several pens – only one type can be used at a time. The result is fantastic – the best example of it’s kind yet. It is also amazing to see the quality of the drawings – many are fantastic. Great full screen, simple useful interface and extremely well realised.
Created by kempertrautmann and demodern.
Slick site promoting the Lexus ES 350 in Russia. In keeping with the previous Lexus Russian sites, they are incredibly well realised, slick, and well designed. Simply an interactive catalogue, but full of nicely crafted 3d fly throughs and sequences, nice animations and transitions.
Created by Brand Studios.
Site promoting TCM’s show, by offering a glimpse into the history of Hollywood. Beautifully tasteful crafted site, nice animations, and a great look and feel that ties it all together. Love the build and transitions, very smooth and slick.
Created by 1 Trick Pony.
Beautiful site promoting a historic Monet exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris in 2010. The site aims to bring Monet’s paintings to life, there is an interactive journey through Monet’s life and a gallery with his paintings. Great functionality when zooming into the paintings – fantastic attention to detail. I love the gallery section and the general look and feel – bright colours on canvas – esque backgrounds, lovely transitions, well integrated video – all wrapped up in a smart well designed interface.
Created by Les 84, and faberNovel.
Interactive music video using the latest HTML 5 effects. Another great interactive music video for ‘The Wilderness Downtown’ by Arcade Fire, which also acts as a showcase for Google’s browser Chrome. You enter your home town on the start screen and the music video plays whilst pop-up windows open displaying streetview and google maps follwing the running character in the music video – all as if the character is actually there in the scene. New events happen as the music plays all in time with the music. An interesting way to show a video and involve the audience into the emotional side of the song – all digitally – very creative.
Created by Chris Milk, Aaron Koblin, Google Creative Lab, radical.media, and B-Reel.
Portfolio of Polish architects Kurylowicz & Associates. Their case studies are arranged across the screen and each have tags with lines drawing from the tags to each project, all in all giving a detailed precise feel. The animations and transitions are smart & slick and the detail is very high, each project is tagged with the architects and loads of info. Really smart interface and design..
Created by Cookie.
Portfolio of Chinese interactive art director Yong. Using hand made clay models to form the basis of his work it is beautifully realised, from fantastic clay animation to his work realistically modelled onto blocks of clay. Amazing animations, design, and style all coming together to make a fun, beautiful website.
Site of Scandinavian agency hellodave! Set in a slick dark interface with 3d panels flying around moving with your cursor. By clicking on the thumbnails all of the panels reorganise to show a video player for that project. Really nice animations and transitions – love the camera movement with your mouse – it is very very smooth, and the shading and lighting is well executed. Very nice…
Beautiful website promoting the release of an album collaboration of Dangermouse, Sparklehorse, and David Lynch. Set in a dark 3d world, where exploration is the key, a card pop up interface unfolds before you. By dragging parts of the cardboard world you reveal content, new imagery, video, and sounds from the album. I love the way you explore, clicking and dragging forwards zooms in/out, and dragging left / right pans around. The lighting also changes with the depth of your viewpoint, and it changes on the cardboard pieces that you drag around – really incredible attention to detail. The feeling of depth is incredible, giving a great sense of ambience and setting a fascinating scene. The setting is fantastic, it works like a charm, and it looks stunning, really refreshing work…
Created by WEFAIL.
