Site of Gas Jeans latest collection Autumn / Winter 2011. Homepage is a bit of a rip off of yugop’s wonderwall – but the rest is pretty nice. Very simple with nice transitions and burn effects, really like the simplicity of each outfit, with the cool parallax effect on the details just adds some nice movement and interactivity.
Created by THINKINGABOUT.
Site promoting the film ‘From The Rough’. Looks great and works nicely but I think what is important is that the whole site is non Flash – which is quite interesting – as it has non of the clunkiness and has all the nice smooth animations and transitions you might expect. It is quite impressive to see. The whole section containing the information about the site is quite a marvel allowing you to move around and explore – all in all a great showcase for what you can do right now with non Flash technology.
Created by Dilshan Arukatti & Sylvain Tran.
Great interactive short film promoting the new Range Rover Evoque. You control ‘Henry’ with basic choices – i.e. choosing a cafe for breakfast, picking a girl’s nail polish, deciding to help a girl to her apartment with bags. These decisions mount up and create humourous outcomes, getting kidnapped, dodging grandma’s bullets. Love the simplicity, but instead of simply clicking in a direction you drag Henry to the direction you want – simple but it really works nicely. Each scenario is unexpected and funny – and very engaging – you want to play again and again. The choices you make create a customised version of the Range Rover Evoque, even the way this is presented is funny – taking hints from the path you took – really simple and effective. Really nicely made and realised example of car customiser – using humour, high quality video and interactivity to create an engaging experience.
Created by the Brooklyn Brothers & less rain.
An interactive film about art in the cities throughout Europe. You can explore a map of locations, watch individual chapters and add your own chapters. The interface is simple and looks great not getting in the way of the content – I really like the subtle scrolling and the look and feel established on the homepage. Nice project wrapped up in a cool interface.
Website for designer Elie Saab, showcasing his collections. Nicely made site using full screen video to show catwalk shows of the clothes, I like that you can skip to each outfit and see detail shots and sketches – seamlessly swapping between it all. Nicely crafted and good minimal interface.
Created by Uzik.
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.
Portfolio of Loïc Dupasquier, designer & art director from Switzerland. Simple minimal site, nicely presented and the cool scrolling system works well where the whole screen moves to the next item.
Portfolio of Harry Vorsteher German photographer. Nice minimal interface allow you to explore his photography either by dragging a circular wheel or by clicking, nice full screen images and panning. Like the way each image has a background to fit the image, going back blurs the image making a nice backdrop for the menu – makes it more dynamic. Nice photography portfolio in a well designed site.
Site for new French action show ‘XIII’ made be Canal+. Although it is simply a video introduction to the show, the videos are slightly interactive and it all has a nice 3D parallax effect which is fun to play with. Strong black and white design and a nice little site.
Created by BETC Digital and Circus.
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.
The official website of Zahia Dehar, a lingerie model. However you look at it, it is beautifully crafted site – when you zoom in to an image it is separated and animated into different depths really stunning. Featuring photography by Greg Williams, Nick & Chloe, and Pierre & Gilles. The transitions and attention to detail are excellent, well realised.
Created by anonymous.
