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February 2, 2012
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Zeitgeistbot

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Site of Zeitgeist “A gallery of artistic exploration, experimentation and research into social media art, folksonomy art, interactive motion tracking art, and cell phone art.” What I like is the way you navigate the site, your view rotates and moves around the screen, I like even that you can scroll around the canvas too. The clean and minimal design accentuates the nice transitions between the sections and adds an element of movement which is really nice – it is also a very modern non-Flash site which also works well on iPads.

Created by variousways.

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January 27, 2012
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Field Notes – Ian Coyle

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Portfolio of Creative Director and designer Ian Coyle the man behind projects such as Andrew Zuckerman: Bird and Nike Better World. Really nice way of presenting work and breaking the norm – using a notation style highlighting interesting parts of the project, from snippets of code to snapshots of navigation, and the things that made the project special.  It takes an exploratory approach and is nice to scroll around and find the details. Very cool, modern and fresh portfolio with great work…

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December 15, 2011
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Chinese Soul

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Beautiful site combining drawn scenes and jazz, the music animating the drawing scenes of China – promoting a jazz album ‘Chinese Soul’. The lines vibrate with the music in turn drawing the lines with the scene panning as the lines are drawn. I love the thought that music can draw a scene in your mind and give a mood, a feeling – very simple and beautifully made. Fantastic.

Created by Motiondraw.

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December 1, 2011
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Internavi Dots – Honda

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Site for Honda Japan featuring info graphics and data about road journeys in Japan. These are all visualised using coloured dots and smoothly animated and shown like a slideshow. Information such as current traffic and weather conditions is shown all in an informative and interesting way. Love the way the dots all move around to form the visuals. Minimal layout and look and feel but the animations and slideshow are really nice, great way of showing information in an dynamic and visually interesting way.

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November 28, 2011
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JUK3D – Nissan

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A simple micro site giving people the chance to explore the new Nissan JUKE. Using the latest Flash 11 hardware accelerated 3D effects, you are presented with a detailed 3d model of the car – placed in a neutral setting you can walk around the car, change colour, get in and out of the car – all from first person perspective. Very simple and fun, I love the way the colour of the car changes and the simplicity of interaction with the car and the environment – dragging the doors open and sitting inside the car – all incredibly immersive. Very well executed, the 3d is fast and smooth and the site is polished – very very cool.

Created by Digitas.

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November 22, 2011
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Check-in Chance – Uniqlo

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Constantly amazed by the quality and innovation of Uniqlo micro sites. This one for Japan involves a cute 3d scene – your mouse controlling the rotation of the scene. Animated to the music and the scene is brought to life, objects fall using parachutes to the ground and a whole pile of things litter the floor. You scroll through the site as you do the angle of the 3d view changes and it highlights the differing depths of the scene. Lovely parallax effect and real feel of depth and cool animation – fantastic, not sure what the site is all about but the execution is amazing.

Created by DENTSU Inc.

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November 18, 2011
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Sidsel Marie Bøg

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Beautiful site for the Danish Hair & Makeup artist Sidsel Marie Bøg. Featuring a fresh and crisp layout and navigation I haven’t seen before. Nice slideshow fullscreen imagery fills the background, love the rollovers on the sections, where images appear for that section. The section where you view the images utilises a really nice scrolling system. Overall a stunning site that really shows how to showcase a great creative portfolio of imagery. Fantastic…

Created by Morten Wibrand and Marcus Fuchs.

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November 17, 2011
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The Heart Beetle – Volkswagen

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Really nice and fun site for Volkswagen’s beetle in Japan. Simple premise – people customising the colour and pattern of the car – all shown in a dynamic and scrolling slideshow manner. You can create your own of course, this is also nicely done and very simple. Really smooth and fast animations and transitions, nicely made and typically Japanese styling bit of an old school concept though but fun nonetheless.

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October 24, 2011
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Warsaw Autumn

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Site for the 54th International Festival of Contemporary Music held in Warsaw. Love the way you can make your own composition from the various sounds of the homepage, when it plays shapes and colours appear around the centre responding to the sound waves made – very cool. Nicely minimal lay out and look and feel, with a fun interface, nice.

Created by Rytm.org Interactive.

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October 7, 2011
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Gas Jeans – A/W 2011

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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.

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September 27, 2011
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Uniqlo – Super Cool Biz

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Yet again another fun and fresh site for Uniqlo. The site encourages people to dress ‘cool’ in Japan’s hot summer and to save on electricity by using air con. Featuring office workers switching their suits to cooler lightweight Uniqlo products – all featured with price – smart and relevant to the current power crisis in Japan. Again, I love the scrolling slideshow effect of the people, when you interact with the thumbnails the people even rotate with the position of your mouse. Set in time to the music and really fun to interact with, I love the way the thumbnail moves around with your mouse, the music, the animation and transitions, another great site for Uniqlo.

Created by Dentsu, & spfdesign Inc.

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September 21, 2011
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Sharp Expo

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Website to celebrate Sharp’s centennial anniversary in 2012. Featuring their innovations since their inception in 1912, through a cute animated scrolling scene of their products. Click on an item and a nice slideshow of similar products and a bit of history. Set to a catchy tune and smooth animation, wrapped up in a minimal look and feel it gives the brand quite a bit of character. Simple, fun and looks good – very nice.

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September 19, 2011
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Made by Grave

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Stylish portfolio of Keith Driesson. Very nice HTML & jQuery site with incredibly slick transitions and full screen images, very minimal but the animation brings it all to life. It works nicely and he knows how to present his work well, a clean and stylish modern portfolio.

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September 15, 2011
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Uniqlo – Innovation

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Yet another cool Uniqlo site promoting their new range of technical outerwear. Featuring videos of people walking and wearing the items demonstrating their key features through animated rain for example, all done in a fun and stylish way.  Love the scrolling gallery of features for the particular item – very well thought out. As usual high quality Flash production with a touch of fun and style.

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