Gorgeous site for Lotta Nieminen, Finnish illustrator and designer. Love the peeking pages on the left and right edges of the site that allows you to cycle through the pages as much as you want. Elegant and simple, the folio does a great job of letting the work shine, everything looks and feels so cohesive with matching colour palettes and styles on the thumbnails. Lovely work.
Created by Lotta Nieminen (@lottanieminen) and Jonatan Erikksson.
Interesting 3D experience to explore the technology and differences behind a house powered by green energy. Incredibly detailed 3D landscape of a modern house – love the walkthroughs and detailed slide out panels describing key parts of the technology. Amazing to see what level of detail is now possible with Web GL and in browser 3D.
Created by Make Me Pulse (@makemepulse) and Wunderman Paris (@WundermanFrance).
Site showcasing Open Foundry’s hot 30 typefaces – well considered and interesting way of exploring (free) typefaces, in-situ on images / black / white – change everything easily. I love the way you can ‘explore’ the font too where you can see how any typeface might look across applications – all different too. Nice take of the archetypal type site.
Created by Stefan Endress (@stefanendress).
Site allow people to create personalised 3D artworks. Sign in with Twitter / Facebook and press keys on your keyboard to create flowing colours and shapes set to music. There is a loose tie into a new Toyota car – but any excuse to create interactive artwork is a good one! Love the ambient sound and music and fun process involved in creating these artworks. I like the way a short gif is created to allow you to share your work.
Lovely portfolio of London based photographer Karina Twiss. Love the ultra high res photos that form the background and let you explore the quality of the shots. Love the grid of images, with a mix of animations and videos forming a stunning pastiche of beautiful photography. Nice details such as the minimal menu and zoom out on an image to bring up a carousel. Stunning example of letting the content do the talking.
Created by Studio Thomas (@StudioThomas).
Lovely site of Spring/Summer Danish digital agency. Refined and elegant is a good way to summarise this site – so many beautiful details in here, and with next-level of polish. Love the work section, when you tap on a project the mask and image stretches to fit full screen with a colour hit from the project fills the preloader along the left side of the screen. Nice and subtle transitions for text and interesting integration of a sticky nav on left side of page – which also shows section in page. Love the way the pages transition – and each project case study is really nicely considered, with in-situ videos / animations / sketches to illustrate their process. It translates beautifully on mobile too with an equal level of polish. A fantastic example of a modern agency portfolio site.
Created by Spring/Summer (@SprngSmmr).
Site for a book bindery workshop in Amsterdam. Love the simple scrolling narrative mechanic, with a little sticky marker showing the stage of the process with images sliding up and sticking. Such an elegant and minimal solution and interesting way of telling a story.
Created by Sebastian Ly Serena (@s_ly_serena) and Rosen Tomov.
Explore events from the Netherlands in the 60s in this interactive exhibit. Love the collage where you can explore key moments in a Google Maps-esque layout, slick transitions and animation to the detail view. Subtle parallax effect adds a nice element of depth and love the ‘tours’ which offer audio tours through the content.
Created by Random Studio (@random_studio).
The next installation of interactive art piece VOID. A cube with rooms to explore in 3D space, each room with it’s own interactive element, from music sequencing, to ripple pools – music and sound plays a large part of the experience. Love the detail and mood – from the design through to the audio design – the exploratory/surreal feel is drenched in atmosphere. Great to see work like this.
Created by Hi-Res (@hireslondon) and IVXVIXVIII (@ivxvixviii).
Lovely photography site with the interesting idea of having two photographers shooting at the same time over 12 hours in two different places in the world. The results are wrapped up in a beautifully designed and executed site full of nice details. At it’s heart is beautiful photography – love the dynamic time stamp and the juxtaposition of the photos – love the slices which transition into one another. All so elegant and simple, and these small interactions are what really brings it to life.
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).
Site for label Raf Simons. Love the one directional scroll which brings in passages of text, which blurs in and out as you scroll. Also love the way the soundtrack muffles when you open the menu. Nice to see something a bit different that stands out from the crowd.
Created by Random Studio (@random_studio).
Site of Paris based production agency who specialise in music and commercial videos. Elegant and minimal interface, love the sliding menu to the left slips underneath the video nicely. Smooth transitions and nice clean design that lets the content do the talking.
Created by Anonymous (@anonymous_paris).
Lovely site for creative production agency Onirim. Lovely scrolling and masking transitions from section to section with bold typography and inline video. Beautifully designed, with nice attention to detail and lots of cool transitions and animations – love the directors/photographers page with colour hits on rollover which injects personality into a monotone design. Great example of a modern, slick, and beautiful agency site.
Created by Immersive Garden (@Immersive_g).
