“darkly twisted yet entrancingly beautiful” - Chocolade Haas is a short film by Sander Plug.
ROOM IDEAS is the third iteration of the well known IKEA Micorsites famous for their heavy and thoughfully use of video footage. This one is pretty sililar to the original kitchen website (Dromkok by Swedish agency Forsman & Bodenfors) with its use of motion control rig to film the footage and the user controls to zoom/rotate/navigate through the videos in the website. The second website kominigarderobe had much less interactivity.
Artist collective Pleix is rockin the music video and advertising scene with one of the most unique and significant visual styles out there right now.
See there brand new ad for Sony HD (via Nerdcore):
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And if you haven’ t seen it watch BIRDS:
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The new Hellohikimori site is online.
“Colors walk with us. Together we fight.
For Brands, For Design, For Interaction and even for Glory, sometimes.
We breathe creativity. Together. Always.”
Sorry for the lack of updates within the last couple of days but I was on an amazing holiday trip.
Back in Berlin I’ll start off with a very interesting viral NOKIA-Campaign!
Besides a slick design and a nice Soundtrack they use a very intuitive video navigation. Depending on your mouse position the video runs back- or forwards.
Link via Bannerblog.
On the first look, there nothing exciting about Zoogami - it’s a clothing companies website, where you are guided through some litlle games by a funny character (reminds me of shaveeverywhere).
So while there’s nothing new about the interactive part of the website, it uses some classical elements of filmmaking. Costumes, set design and art direction are excuted very well with much love for the details. Thereby the website creates a very unique atmophere.
The new Visions Street Wear Site has a full screen video background. I’m curious how this site performs on different systems. On my Work station it runs smoothly while on my laptop it stucks quite often.
Nice solutions for the navigation and the loading graphics, too.
Mercedes has a quite courageous approach for the new UK C-Class Website.
A very reduced design with almost no footage of the car. Instead, they present 6 little interactive games that explain different features of the vehicle. Not every single one of the games is entertaining, but I like the idea of presenting the features in a different and new way.
Nice microsite for the new VW Night driving campaign. You can watch the beautiful tv ad, switch to some additional camera angles or even recut the footage and make your own commercial.
“Somewhere betwenn 3 and 4am. Night time. The best time to drive. The air flows frehs anfd coool through your open window. All lights seem green, the road is yours.”
Link via Pickone
Devoid of Yesterday is a new non-commercial short film collective by The Ronin, Dstrukt and Hecq.
“Devoid is an arts based collective specializing in the creation of personal short film projects and not for profit commissions. Although consisting of motion directors Chiu and Hewitt, Devoid’s work is about as far removed from the world of commercial motion design as you can possibly get. Together with Boysen the trio are plotting out new territory that is constantly changing with the emotions and experiences gained from the friendship that binds the three together. Devoid of Yesterday creates dark twisted narratives with flickers of hope that reflect the human nature of the artists.”