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Nobody could sustain such an interface design today without seeming passé, but if you were the first one to do it, then I guess, you have royal precedence in doing it again. AgencyNet sure pulled a technical feat, the flying helicopter is unnecessary though.
Why ask your viewers to pick between your blog or full website? Is being part of the blogosphere now more important than potential clients seeing your work right off?
Hot or cold? Organic Grid flash website use horizontal navigational system with thumbnail appearing on mouseover. Suprisingly large visuals and keyboard led nav in sub-levels.
Horizontal the new vertical?
The Goteborg Opera house new website is a nice tour de force from FB (Forsman & Bodenfors from Sweden). The interface is enticing, navigation simple and detailed enough. Pick one of the featured shows, choose listen, and see what happens. Nice touch!
While browsing, each sections is well written and presented with photography and even video clips. For visitors and fans, easy to get tickets and even book a table for dinner.
Snapshots of Provence is an experimental website for the local tourist board which you can navigate two ways. Pick pictures on the left to visit by regions which includes small video clips or use the wheel on the right for an alternate navigation.
This comprehensive sound and visual experience is an excerpt from the travel book of photographer Thomas Duval and sound designer Tacteel and produced by UZIK.
Balsamstudio is a small design firm based based in Krakow, Poland and they have opted for a simple yet very intuitive flash website to show their portfolio. Nice navigation, transitions and projects presentation.
Overall conveying they are skilled and serious professionals. Well done!
This is a rather really cool flash website for DJNR interactive portfolio which features a large video section serving as background and tangy yellow-green and black to highlight sections. Unusual navigation that works intuitively throughout all levels. Nice!
Professional, to the point self-promo and well done!
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Ordinary Kids designed and developed the Fall 09 campaign for Nike NSW, the pinnacle brand in the Nike Sportswear division. They had to shoot 6 videos and a deep product area showcasing the entire season. New videos drop expected every month.
Found this kewl flash intro for the website titled Growing Up with SE plus which is a japanese web design agency. Found the metaphor of ‘dressing up’ a good one. Just let the movie roll.
Frankfurt based Martin Anderle is a freelance interactive designer and developer and his new website is showing off his expertise. He specializes in concepting and developing micro and portfolio sites.
I know some will find it noisy and busy, but I support his attempt to differentiate himself. Well done!
OHARA design studio floating landscape. They specialize in mostly music related projects.
IAAH (I Am Always Hungry) 7 released! Nessim Higson striking from the forefront – another stimulating and web defying experiment stocked with top notch projects.
TANGRAM is a visual design studio located in Tokyo. Their website falls into the red, black and large white expanse with animated lines criss-crossing over the interface. The real goodies are the embedded media and movies that display their projects! They do web, motion graphics, installations and more.
Very high quality work!
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The Economist launches Thinking Space a 3D flash project. Submit yours.
UNO Hispanic Branding shocking pink to magenta gradient background hints at the famously known passionate and enjoying life traits of latin descending cultures, such as Italian and French. The agency base focus is on reaching Hispanic consumers exclusively.
Luv the simple flash website with ‘grabbing hand’ functionality to scroll through projects.
Interminable traffic jams, massive incoming transiters using cars to get into cities are a plague and a large cost to quality of air (and mental health due to related stress) for large populated megapolis. Montreal with a 3.5 million demo that includes all surrounding suburbs won’t see any decrease since suburbs are still expanding further out from the center year after year.
We don’t own a car! We won’t own a car! We rent when absolutely necessary. We walk. We take the bus. We take the subway.
To incite reluctant transiters – a huge campaign with an environmentally conscious aim was launched by the STM, accurately named: Society in Motion. Now who said civic service communications had to be boring!
Unouplus (which means one or more) is a fascinating and well built simple flash website that his home to freelancing art director and web designer, Yoshihiro Toda, hailing out of Osaka.
As you can see there is this vector illustration that scrolls up and down on the left side. Hit the ASOBI link and what have we got here? The vector illustration turns into a sweet pinball like game.
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Wanna something that will blow you out of the waters? Visit the +LifE his jaw-dropping photography + videos section, and how he has visually and technically organized these.
Astounding talent!
Sublime Woods illustration by Mika Mäkinen based in Helsinki who embedded selection of works in a pretty nifty flash functionalities website.
This is the website of the docu-film Waterlife, an epic story of the Great Lakes which may be nearing “irreversible collapse”. Director Kevin McMahon sets out to document the people, its ecosystem, and the beauty of Earth’s 20% surface fresh water supply. Music by Brian Eno, Sigur Ros, Philip Glass and Daniel Lanois among others.
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