Interactive agency Struck/Axiom with offices in Salt Lake City, UT and Portland, OR recently relaunched the brand focused site for Newcastle Brown Ale (with the help of agencies Vitro Robertson and TWC). Their new approach uses almost nothing but beautifully shot video scenes and minimal text overlays. Impressive work!
Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid? Bank Run is like combining one of those book, with the production quality of an action movie, and an interactive game. Interactive shop SilkTricky run by Chris Lund recently launched this site along with part II that’s playable as an iPhone game.
Go ahead. Kill some time on this site. It’s worth it.
San Francisco based digital agency Odopod refreshes Sony Playstation’s site with a well organized, clean, and fresh design. I’m a big fan of the straight forward design of the content, but still allowing the featured imagery to be displayed larger than life.
Great mixture of product, video and audio in this interactive site for Wrangers europe by Kokokaka.
In an attempt to help revitalize the struggling Myspace brand, BBH London and interactive shop Domani Studios launched a site that adds your pictures into various popular music videos. It certainly is not a new interactive gimmick, but it was executed very well.
One unexpected feature is it allows you to sign in with Facebook connect to import your photos. Maybe it is a sign that they’re going to begin focusing on their strength in music.
Tokyo based interactive studio tha ltd. recently launched a site for Japanese retailer MUJI. The site combines products and video all to a catch rhythm. tha ltd. was also behind a lot of the UNIQLO sites and the architecture firm Wonderwall.
Over the past several years the Japanese retail chain has come up with some of the most innovative interactive projects, many with the help of the interactive agencies tha ltd. and Bascule Inc. Some of the most interesting campaigns have bridged online interaction with real-time in store or ‘on the street’ content - UNIQLO Grid and Tokyo Fashion Map
via Jarred Bishop and Daniel Howells
Case-Mate launches I Make My Case that allows you to create your own iPhone case using design elements from popular artists Matt W. Moore, Chuck Anderson, Joshua Davis, Nigel Dennis, Anthony Yankovic, Ray Frenden, and others. Even if you’re not in the market to buy a new iPhone case checkout the site for it’s design and animation.
Site by Proto HQ, Edwin Tofslie, and Chuck Anderson.
Interactive creative director for Lost Boys, James Theophane, upcycled fifty cellphones to create the Mobile Mobile installation. Taking the installation to the next level Lost Boys created a website that allow users to serenade people viewing the installation: http://xmas.lbi.co.uk/mobiletree/
Behind the scenes look at the making of the Mobile Mobile installation.
Robert Lindström (@designchapel) recently uploaded the North Kingdom Showreel highlighting the story of North Kingdom and their work spanning from 2003 to today. They did an incredible job showing off their primarily interactive work in video format.
Portfolio of the freelance interactive designer and developer based in Frankfurt, Germany.
Wonderwall is an interior design firm established by Masamichi Katayama based in Tokyo, Japan. Their portfolio is full of impressive work, but what struck me is the interesting organic flow and movement in the presentation of their work.
“The centerpiece of the exhibit is the Aquarium Multitouch App which allows gallery-goers to spawn new creatures that move around with limited intelligence, bring her artwork to life. The table and app were built from scratch at Fashionbuddha Studio with sounds designed by Radium Audio. Here’s some more info about the exhibit and table. DIY Multitouch Table”
via ComputerLove
“The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break through the strict architecture of O. M. Ungers ‘Galerie der Gegenwart.’ Resultant permeability of the solid facade uncovers different interpretations of conception, geometry and aesthetics expressed through graphics and movement…”
Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases.Fontplore helps you to easily find the right typeface for your project in a collection of several thousands of fonts. It lets you browse, preview, compare and print the fonts you are interested in.
