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.
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.
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.
Fantastic site promoting HBO and it’s new project, much like the HBO Voyeur, HBO Imagine. Presenting a series of short films all shot from 4 different angles. The mechanism for viewing is a large 3d cube which you drag around to see the 4 different sides. There are several films to explore all through a floaty 3d interface. It is all highly polished with great transitions and animation, love the way you can explore the different videos. All very slick interactivity with interesting films, all directed by Noam Murro, complete a really cool online experience.
Created by BBDO NY and The Barbarian Group.
Website promoting Nestlé ‘Born Better’ bottled water range. Placing you in 3d panoramas where you scroll around to pan your view of mountain vistas. Nicely designed with a great drag and pan mechanism, slick animation and a pretty good attention to detail.
Created by Your Majesty & McCann Worldgroup.
Site promoting Sprite’s ‘Step Off’ competition across the USA. Fresh, fun modern design, with a clean interface – full with loads of animations, transitions, interactions and effects.
Created by Juxt Interactive.
Site showcasing SAAB, it’s history and philosophy, with the aim to show the audience SAAB’s perspective. Nicely designed and produced beautifully this simple site has several small interactive experiences highlighting certain features of the car. I really appreciate the minimal design, well considered layout, with fantastic assets and playful interactivity, one of the best examples of the ‘desktop’ interface I have seen – great attention to detail.
Created by Acne Digital.
Video site of band Fat Freddys Drop. Very simple site allowing you to view videos and compose sequences from the clips dropped onto the table. I really like the polish of the site, it looks great and there is a nice attention to detail, in particular the rollovers on the videos and dragging action…
Created by Resn.
Portfolio of Armin Morbach, hair & makeup artist, publisher and producer. Love the style of this portfolio, really fantastic – parallax scrolling with cool cutout scenery. Nicely interactive and well designed, you really get a nice feeling of depth with the different levels. Essentially a very simple porfolio – but a great looking and effective one, with some nice transitions and effects.
Created by SiteSeeing.
Cool promotion site for Orange in France and from what I can tell some cinema events. Nice stop motion animation with cardboard objects, really well animated and provides an interesting look and feel for the site. Nice interaction with the little elements and well animated characters – fun to play with and cool to look at.
Slick site promoting Lands’ End womens swimwear. Some really nice features and attention to detail in this site, all tied together with some colourful visuals. I particularly like the ‘runway’ mode, where you can scroll through all of the swimwear, with nice multi level parallax scrolling, with zooming in and panning – they’ve done a really nice job of it. Lots of cool rollovers and nice typography makes this a fun site use and nice to look at.
Created by RED Interactive Agency.
