Valerie by Topshop
Design
How can I not love a collection named after me? The separates look great for mixing and matching. I love that red shoe. It’s crazy, it’s unique and it’s HIGH! And that cute little gingham dress… I know where my pay’s headed…
Levi’s Mix It Up
Advertising, Design
I’m so happy to see the website that my team and I worked so goddamn bloody hard to create is so well received by the design community. We have won accolades on this weeks’ DesignCharts, last week’s E-Creative.net and won Site of the Day (15 May 2008) on Designlicks.com!
Levi’s Mix It Up is a microsite promoting Asia Pacific Levi’s latest Spring/Summer collection. The feature of this collection is idiotproof mixing and matching of clothes within the collection. We mirrored this concept in our site. Users can have fun by jumbling the cubes to form their favourite outfit in different settings.
Painting on wood
Design
Indonesian born Tessar Lo displays a flair for painting pictures that speak a thousand painful words. Yet his strokes are incongruent with such dark sentiments. His paintings on mediums like wood and stonehenge are like poetry in dark, stormy night. Pensively beautiful yet perfectly comprehensible. I also like how his work has an Asian influence to it.
The Never-ending Colour Book
Design, Interactive
ColorFlip by Rafaël Rozendaal, interactive experimenter extraordinaire, creates an entertaining, addictive site of coloured paper. All there are to the site are sheet after sheet of intensely coloured paper for you to tear and tear and tear.
Sometimes, things don’t have to be complicated to be beautiful and engaging. It is very easy for us Flash designers to get carried away by the speed of technological advancements. By the way, did you all know that Flash 10 is out? Head over to A-SFUG for more details.
Simon Whybray
Design
Simon Whybray’s project’s page might be a temporary solution, but it is a temporary solution that will probably work better than any souped up idea dreamed up. The one-page-shows-all style saved me time and let me soak in Whybray goodness without having to deal with navigations that rival those found in architecture simulation programs. I like how the colourful, boldly sized graphics are displayed unapologetically.
Typing with invisible ink
Advertising, Design, Weird shit
I found these on Typeish. Typeish proclaims itself to be a image bookmarking database. Typeish is a wonderland of eccentric images, attitudinal graphics, beautiful photography, high fashion and questionable sanity. It is advertising without the fluff of candy copy. Typing with invisible ink, letting the imagery do the talking.
Great photography but…
Design
Great photography but horrible site. The many scrollbars and iframes made me tired even before I looked halfway through the site. The exhausting vertical scroll expanded into a lengthy horizontal obscured the photography. The confusing URL link colours (both red AND black) made me miss a good portion of Bela Borsodi’s work.
Bela deserves better.
Automatic Art
Design, Interactive
Julien Pacaud teams up with Kevin Luck to create a automatic canvas. Built in Flash, the Flick API allows Flash to pull user-specified images from Flickr’s ever-updating bank of photos. This showcases the beauty of good tagging. If images were tagged sensibly and logically, the flexibility of the API would be almost limitless and very specific to point.
Going mechanical in a digital world: Gondry for Motorola
Advertising, Design, Interactive
Michel Gondry insisted on going mechanical in a digital world and it resulted in the cutest, most fun video I’ve seen on this Monday. Play hopscotch on a pavement and a building greets you. Dive into a sea of blue coloured people after a concert of your choice. Friends appear a push of a button. Welcome to Gondry’s vision for Motorola RAZR².
» Take a glimpse behind the scenes here.
While visiting the site, I noticed that Papervision (Papercloud to be specific) was employed to display the gallery of stills. Personally, I am pretty disgusted with my fellow Flash designers for getting SO carried away with possibilities of Flash technologies that they utterly forget about usability and branding. While I am a bit irritated with the lack of control of what stills I want to view, (They kinda fly all over the screen), I like how it melds nicely with the whimsical nature of the Gondry’s showpiece. Along with the clouds floating slowly in the background, this is one sweet dream that I wish wasn’t plagued with streaming issues and slow loading.
Readymech Cameras by Corbis
Design
Back in school we made pinhole cameras with shoe boxes and tissue boxes for science projects. Now, stock image provider Corbis turns up the style factor of these old skool pinhole cameras with exclusive quirky prints. Each of these camera designs come with names like “Dr. Livingstone” and “Photos of Your Mother” making them seem more like art pieces than flimsy snap-and-forget disposables. So get your scissors and glue ready.
