Site of Izaias Caualcanti & Anderson Barros – developers / designers from Brazil, this is their portfolio site. Nicely designed with big typography and mask reveal transitions. Little bit of confusing UE design, but it is fun to navigate and from a layout perspective very cool.
Portfolio site of Tokyo based photographer Ittetsu Matsuoka. Very minimal interface, essentially explored by scrolling – love the homepage where you scroll and it loads in images from Flickr by the photographer – the interface stays in place. This is a recurring theme – scrolling isn’t what you might traditionally expect – here it explores the images acting as next / back type action. I love the use of white space and the transparency / overlapping – it also uses an interesting vertical dot system for navigating the projects once within ‘project’.
Created by Hiroshi Sato (@sthrs).
Nice site for Heine / Lenz / Zizka – a German branding studio. Presented in a large grid of projects which you can zoom in and out of to explore the range of work they have created. Clicking on projects allows you to drill down and look through the various designs, love the way when you move your mouse to one side the screen slightly moves to illustrate there is more to explore. Really nice layout and works nicely – fun to explore and good to look at!
Portfolio of Danish photo retouching studio ELI. One of my favourite features of the site is the way you navigate through the images in each section – scrolling within one of the strips or dragging the title bar. Love the transitions between sections with well considered animation and all wrapped up in a clean and minimal interface.
Created by Frederik Kirketerp and Mike Fey (@mikefey).
Pretty cool site of interactive HTML5 experiments. All set within a ultra minimal interface comprising of a draggable wheel, clicking on one of the items transitions to the experiment launching full screen. Love the typographic style and bold colours and minimal interace. This guy is seriously pushing the boundaries of what is possible right now in Canvas / CSS / Javascript – pretty impressive stuff. Great reference to demonstrate to people to the possibilities of how far we can go!
Created by Jongmin Kim (@cmiscm).
Nike MvsW is a Nike+ running competition aimed at pitching men against women in Hong Kong – using their Nike+ data to compare themselves against other people and celebrities. It is all brought together into a minimal data visualisation layout – all in 3d! The graphs are drawn in front of you – you can affect your view by moving your mouse around – quite immersive. Really bold and bright look and feel, (love the login page) great animation and the 3d effect is ultra smooth – great way to bring the concept to life.
Created by pill & pillow (@pillandpillow).
Site promoting REI an outdoor clothing specialist, through an online gallery documenting all 1440 minutes in the day with a photo! The main interface is a grid based layout to explore each minute, nice large photography and slick animation. The time is based on when the photo was taken – I love the way you pick a time – dragging the hands of clock around – it all feels very intuitive and slick. Loads of nice little details and works responsively down to mobile too – all in all great site that looks good and has lots of cool animation and transitions.
Created by Resn (@resn_has_no_i) and BBDO Atlanta (@bbdoatl).
Interesting site this – The Rational Keyboard. Has to be seen and played with – best explained by the man himself: “The Rational Keyboard is an HTML5 web app demonstrating a consonance model injust intonation. It’s kind of like a piano with infinitely many keys (one for each rational number) that move around and resize based on what sounds good.”
Essentially – play around with it, fascinating work and utterly mesmerising – looks great too. You can spend a long time here playing around with the sounds and watching how the keys blend and change size.
Created by Fritz Obermeyer (@ftzo).
Site of Boundary Breaks wine from NY. Great looking typography and photography site – with some really nice touches. They go into great detail about how the wine is created, who is behind it, nice big photos – all aimed at getting across the ‘soul’ that goes into the wine. Nice looking minimal layout, each section is different and interesting, and the homepage is really quite unusual – a scene from outside of the vineyard which shows a timelapse according on the position of your cursor. This all adds up to give a real ambience of the site, I love the ‘without compromise’ section – really interesting way of labelling where you are on the page, nice offset type and so on.
Created by Sons & Co.
GREY group’s directions to their Japan office. Instead of doing a standard map, they did a fun interactive third person map. Simply using the arrow keys to go forwards / backwards arriving at crossroads, going the wrong way prompts some silly dead end sequence – lots of these to find! Just a really fun, creative way of showing people how to get to the office – full of personality and Japanese style irreverance!
Created by GREY (@greygroupapac).
Portfolio site of Museum Studio Swedish Art-direction and creative studio. Really nice thumbnail based layout, rolling over the projects shuffles through the thumbnails, clicking shoots them all out in a line and enlarges them and places a grey overlay on the rest of the background. Love the animation and transitions, really nicely crafted and clean minimal design.
Created by the now closed Antenna Research Facility and Museum Studio (@museumstudio).
Pretty amazing feat from Google – Jam With Chrome. A multi-user musical jam session! The level of detail and complexity visually simplified here is incredible (It’s all created in javascript and so on too). Mind-blowing really… Really fun to play with and nice angular art-direction, loads of nice animation and transitions. Love the ‘pro’ and ‘easy’ ways to play, loads of little customisable features such as bpm, key, distortion and so on. Really really cool, looks great, and fun to play with.
Created by Google Creative Lab, Tool (@ToolofNA), and Rob Bailey (@RobJamesBailey).
Silk is a simple site that allows you to create symmetrical swirling patterns – and share them! Very minimal and interesting to play with – the lines it creates are very smooth and there are a lot of nice touches that liven it up a little.
Created by Yuri Vishnevsky.
Nice site of RVLT clothing. Really nice design brought to life by cool animation and transitions. Love the homepage – dragging will slide off the components and re-arrange the layout when they re-appear, clicking on a section or item brings it in – love the way the text overlaps the image and the info overlay. Nice grid layout – really simple, fresh and clean.
Created by Hello Monday (@hellomondaycom).
