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Lotie

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Portfolio of French Illustrator and artist Lotie. Featuring a large illustrated background which you navigate over to find sections of the site, from which you can explore his work. Nice way of showing the artwork and quite imaginative.

Created by REZO ZERO.

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The Thingdom

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Beautifully made educational game for the Science Museum of London, to help teach people about genetics. You basically create a ‘thing’ and interactive with it by feeding, grooming, and mating with other ‘things’ to create new creatures – which inherit features from their parents. You have to complete challenges to unlock new features and levels. Amazing Flash work, incredibly detailed, great sound, and well polished, feels like a nintendo game – an awful lot of fun too!

Created by Preloaded.

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Scotch & Soda

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Site of Scotch & Soda, dutch clothing label. Smooth and simple site showing off their range, the homepage shows their main magazine style layout, with a nice bit of animation and interactivity. I like the collection section where we can explore an endless canvas of photos from their collection, nice way of exploring whats on offer. Simple, clean, and effective – love the homepage and collection section.

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Kurylowicz & Associates

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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.

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hellodave!

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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…

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Dark Night Of The Soul

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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.

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Track Carlos

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Site promoting the new TV series about ‘Carlos’ a terrorist. Follow the trail of Carlos throughout the world and see where key events happened. Really slick site with incredible execution throughout. Love the 3d globe, clicking zooms in to various locations, similar to Google Earth, to give a montage of material about the event with press clippings, video clips, and so on. The montage itself is nicely laid out and you can pan your view around to reveal more items giving each location a back story. The level of detail is quite incredible, with seamless transitions from the 3d globe to the end scene, well designed, amazing animation and polish, really great work…

Created by BETC Euro RSCG, Douny, and Circus.

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Le-Joy

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Very cool site of photographer & art director Jaoa Sousa. Set within a grid of labelled projects, the preloading itself is very cool, is a sea of work Le-Joy has created. Rolling over each thumbnail instantly displays that project and changes the thumbnail to navigation buttons, keeping your mouse still for a few seconds hides all the navigation and grid. When each image appears it is mapped to a 3d surface and animates nicely into view. A superb, stylish portfolio of really nice work, different but familiar, really cool…

Created by Pacifica, Netexpect, and Pedro Lima.

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Panoplie – Artificial Emotions

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Website of French agency Panolie. Pretty interesting, standard layout but all with a twist and some injected personality. The scrolling up and down also brings weird blobs and interactive things onto screen, all adding a nice feeling of depth. Clicking on a project and clicking left/right shows a really cool 3d cloth effect. Nice attention to detail and a bit different.

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Vicente Diaz Penas

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Website of photographer Vicente Diaz Penas. Quite normal, until you click and drag, then you see that the photos are mapped to a 3d surface to give the impression of depth. On some images it works really well, a very interesting effect, a nice concept…

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Nespresso Tanzaru

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Site of Nespresso’s newest flavour ‘Tanzaru’. Essentially an interactive musical slideshow – really interesting style, with parallax scrolling and depth of field, giving a feeling of the kind of flavours and influences the coffee has. When rolling over the various items in the scene they play different sounds – so along with the background music a fun interactive composition is created. Really nice visual style and great animations and interactivity, very cool.

Created by Soleil Noir.

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KIRSTEN BECKEN

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Portfolio of Kirsten Becken, fashion photographer and graphic designer. Pretty interesting interface – providing a mood board of several shots/images for each project which pans around by mouse movement, clicking zooms in and double clicking allows you to click and drag your viewpoint. I like the movement, the overview of images, and the fresh take on the standard portfolio. Pretty cool.

Created by Andreas Lutz.

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