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.
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.
