Robert Lingdstrom (Designchapel), Andreas Pihlstrom (Suprb) and their North Kingdom crew have just launched a new design portal named The Designers Monarchy with some cool contributors on board. Your new daily bookmark.
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The Designers Monarchy
Like every year FWA (Favourite Websites Awards) has started Site of The Year contest. Twelve Site of The Month Winners will compete in two categories: Judges Choice and People Choice Award. This year Ars Thanea was honored to be a part of the SOTY jury. It wasn’t easy to pick the best 3 because we had a couple of personal favourites. Winners will be announced in January 2008. If you want to take part in PCA you can cast your vote here.
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The FWA
People Choice Award 2007
Rec You is a mini site for Sony Walkman campaign from NON-GRID in Japan. The whole idea is to record yourself while listening to music. The site is not yet finished but you can already see the Grid of people who, as I can understand, uploaded their photos. This is really cool Action Script stuff. You can also upload your photo (Send a Photo) but I have no idea if there is some way to get an url to your “recording”. If you figure it out give us a clue.
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Rec You site
NON-GRID
I wrote previously about more and more video and 3D usage in sites. This one is almost 100% interactive video. Promo site for the newest game from Ubisoft it’s a foretaste what you can experience in the game. Site is well executed without unnecessary content. Using keyboard user can unlock hidden content and information about the game. Nice work.
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Assassin’s Creed Site
Ubisoft
Diplomatic Cover
New site promoting Stella Artois beer. Site is divided on 5 mini games: End of The World, Dangers of the Forrest, Wrath of Gods, Battle of Good vs Evil and finally The Setting Sun. Each game is very well executed with a lot of motion and video. Another example of high budget production based on interactive video. Creative Agency: Lowe Worldwide.
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Stella Artois Site
Lowe Worldwide
People put more and more video into their sites. Sometimes is unnecessary, sometimes it is. HBO Voyeur is great example how to use it in a proper way. Site tells several different stories about people who live in the city. Each room is single tale about people’s life. They are connected together. You can watch one of them or navigate through and watch the whole story. Nice soundtrack and overall execution makes this site one of the best video examples I’ve ever seen.
Beautiful example how to forge technology into ART. Rythm of the Lines is the promotional site of new Audi A5. Excellent example of use Papervision3D. User can create his own piece of art on-line using keyboard. He can create mood by creating lines, change camera angles etc. All created works has ambient sound mood making this site one of the best examples how to create something and advertise product in non-straight way. Highly recommended.