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November
5, 2003
Johnny Hollow
http://www.johnnyhollow.com/
This site, created by some of the same team as My Pet
Skeleton, showcases this band work and style in an admirable
way. With a navigational theme that centers around beetles,
moths and the dark weathered side of things, it creates
an intriguing and slightly spooky atmosphere that's
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Merk
Design v6
http://www.merkdesign.com/
Opening with lovely sounds, Merk Design is the personal
portfolio of Marc Virgili, which offers visitors a good
dose of refined style that utilizes color and a space
quite nicely. The animated menu transitions are zippy
and effective and Merk's portfolio is loaded with some
really nice work. I was especially keen to the photographs
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Audrey
- Paintings
http://www.audrey-paintings.net/
A lovely minimalist design allows users to focus on
Audrey's wonderfully interesting paintings and access
information through the slick site navigation. Ambient
music adds an interesting touch to this online environment
as well.
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WebAgent
007 v3.0
http://www.wa007.com/
Already a classic and well respected site among the
flash and design communities, the new version of WA007
really packs a punch. The navigation is somewhat obsicure
but once you start digging there's a lot of great work
to explore.
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October
15, 2003
Mhq.nl - Merten/Snijders
http://www.mhq.nl/
A nicely executed site with rich photography and well
suited navigation. The macro close-ups are especially
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Merus
Wines
http://www.meruswines.com/
Located amidst numerous other wineries that can be found
in Napa California is Merus Wines. A unique 'micro winery'
so to speak, operated entirely by one husband &
wife team from their home which has been transformed
into a fully functional winery. Merus produces extremely
small batches of select vintages and their website does
a great job of sharing the Murus experience with visitors.
The use of photography in this website is well integrated
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terrorpilot|dot|com
http://www.terrorpilot.com/
Always a unique experience, terrorpilot has a new game
online and it's filled with web designers, chainsaws
and gasoline.
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October
8, 2003
Mark Winwood Photography
http://www.markwinwood.com/
A photography site designed by Kit
Suman, MarkWinwood.com takes advantage of displaying
Mark's images and information within an attractive and
zippy interface. The use of color and form are super
throughout the site and what's especially attractive
is the gallery, particularly the 'Food and Gardening:
Step By Step Guides'. This site offers a nice artist
sound feature as well.
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Elspeth
Gibson London
http://www.elspethgibson.com/
Designed by 72dotsperinch,
this site for London's high fashion designer Elspeth
Gibson is wonderfully feminine in its color and form
which lends quite nicely to the women’s fashions
that Elspeth Gibson creates. My only gripe about this
site is that I don't care for the full-screen display.
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September
23, 2003
ISO50
http://iso50.com/
The personal portfolio site of Scott Hansen, ISO50 displays
a lot of solid design and an easy to follow means of
navigating Scott's print work (which includes many interesting
posters) some nice photography, great logo work and
even some nifty music.
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September
16, 2003
Jonathan Clark - Afterlife
http://www.jonathan-clark.com/
Quickly gaining recognition around the web, Afterlife
is a wonderful photo exhibit of Streatham Cemetery throughout
the four seasons, enhanced by delicate animations.
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[H]EAD
[O]VER [H]EELS
http://hoh.chaoticconstructives.com/
A lovely new discussion board geared for talk about
design. It's their passion, it's your passion, get involved
and discuss great designs talk about at HOH.
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August
26 , 2003
eendar
http://www.eendar.com/
The online portfolio of Monica Calvo, eendar presents
among other delights, some fantastic illustration work
and fun wallpapers. Monica's work is thoughtful and
elegant as well as highly expressive and is packaged
in a somewhat delicate Flash package.
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Chaotic
Constructives
http://www.chaoticconstructives.com/
Ben hits the web with another lovely site; ChaoticConstructives,
a somewhat graphically grungy feeling site that manages
to maintain a respectable level of elegance through
its navigation. Ben is a passionate designer who does
an excellent job of sharing his passion for design through
his many online works.
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Niklas
Veen Huis
http://niklasveenhuis.se/
Niklas has a new portfolio site online, which displays
a minimalist design, allowing users to easily focus
on his portfolio offerings, while video style menu transitions
add an effective personal flare.
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Virgil
Crow
http://www.virgilcrow.com
Virgil Crow is an artist with a unique vision, even
more unique artistic style, and a site that offers a
plethora of art, animation, thoughts and more.
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The
Dust
http://www.thedust.net/
One of the better gaming clan sites I've seen around
with an overall solid design.
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August
8 , 2003
Eduardo de Felipe
http://www.elelec.com/
Showcasing his design, multimedia and visual communication
services, this portfolio site for Eduardo de Felipe
demonstrates great use of shape and form in its design
while integrating animated graphic elements with strong
visual appeal. The navigation is clear and function
is solid.
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DigitalBrand
http://www.digitalbrand.com.ar/
Sporting a strong Mac look and feel, the DigitalBrand
website does present itself with a classy design and
a fairly sophisticated feel overall. The site is easy
to navigate once the user locates the menu and the portfolio
section offers a nice glimpse into the level of professional
work this studio offers. Although the music loop quickly
became repetitive, it made me smile since it's one of
my favorite songs (The Notwist - Concequence) and the
music control is pretty cute.
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August
1 , 2003
Logan Watts
http://www.loganwatts.com/
Fantastic structure and an ever so slight hint of disorder,
LoganWatts.com is a beautifully designed site, rich
in color and interactivity. Overall this site is quite
impressive and demonstrates highly professional work.
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BL76.com
http://www.bl76.com/
As an online portfolio, this site offers solid functionality
and design with aesthetically pleasing animation. |
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2Methods.com
http://2methods.com/
Nice Flash animation effects and some interesting work
throughout the two site versions available at 2Methods. |
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July
23, 2003
Zosia Zija photography
http://www.zija.net/
Polish photographer Zosia Zija shares some wonderfully
powerful images of the most common kind. Her photo images
speak volumes and offer our minds new questions and
interpretations of her subjects.
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Myopic
Society
http://www.myopicsociety.com
An elegantly executed site with soothing colors, rather
very impressive ActionScripting, quite a few source
downloads and code shares. It looks like there is a
new site release coming up soon. Be sure to check this
one out now and later.
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KeepsMeSane
http://www.keepsmesane.co.uk
A personal site aimed at being the creators retreat
form the every day grind (definitely something we all
need). With nice design throughout, this site is picking
up its share of recognition.
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July
17, 2003
Behr
http://www.behr.com/
The site is nicely designed with its use of color and
animation but one of the most impressive parts of the
site is the ColorSmart application which allows consumers
to coordinate paint colors, find colors by name, mix
color combination and more. Also, check out laszlosystems.com,
they played a major roll in Behr's ColorSmart application
development... quite interesting.
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July
10, 2003
SuperHuman
http://www.superhumanband.com
Another smooth site by Scott Cook(driftlab.com), Superhumanband.com
is a band site to envy with a very pleasing look and
feel that is nicely suited to the sounds of the band.
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pretty
world ''' creative mushroom
http://www.creativemushroom.com/
Recently Ben(designcheck.net, pixelsinteractive.com)
and Mark(Valse) finished a site for a symphony event
in Singapore, where musicians come together to play
experimental music. The concept; present this site within
a weathered environment that still created a pretty
world.
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July
2, 2003
Frosch-Studio
http://www.frosch-studio.com/
Frosch-Studio has created an intriguing web environment
that is host to smooth and clever animation, effective
navigation and wonderful frogs.
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play
more
http://www.playmore.com/
PlayMore.com hosts a very original look and feel with
quite a unique navigation that features life-like critter
integration.
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June
26, 2003
Random
http://www.rndm.com/
Random is a Dublin band with a lovely site and nice
sounds. Minimal Flash integration keeps this site easy
to use while offering aesthetically pleasing visuals.
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Eye
Digital Emotion
http://www.idigitalemotion.com/
A personal site with the liberal use of Photoshop graphics
integrated into a fairly effective Flash design for
displaying the creators capabilities. Eye Digital Emotion
also offers useful Photoshop tutorials.
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June
18, 2003
NYC Polaroid Project
http://www.andrewfaris.com/nyc_pp/
Created by Andrew
Faris, the NYC Polaroid Project is an ongoing Polaroid
photo collection of images originating from the streets
of NYC. Each month hosts a calendar with dates linked
to their images with easy and effective navigation for
viewing.
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June
11, 2003
ubergeek.tv
http://www.ubergeek.tv
What's not to love here? You absolutely can't miss the
fantastically fun cartoons at ubergeek.tv, especially
if you're a super-villain like Steve.
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June
4, 2003
Otra Design
http://otradesign.com/
Otra Design lives up to its self-description: 'Nice
& Simple'. With lovely color use and a functionally
simplistic design, this site is a pleasure to browse
and offers many great works for viewing, including lovely
photographs.
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May
27, 2003
Perte.de.Temps
http://www.perte-de-temps.com/
I greatly enjoyed the environment created within this
project. From the sound to the graphics to the animation
this is a wonderfully executed story to follow.
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May
15, 2003
247 Media Studios
http://www.24-7media.de/
Set in a rich graphical environment, this Berlin
based media company’s site is wonderfully eclectic
and in many ways, anything from traditional.
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May
8, 2003
Loaf New Media Design
http://www.loafdesign.com/
A fun little site with loads of vector art, Loaf New
Media Design has based their content structure and information
delivery around a bakery concept. This site is fast
to browse and is a clean design for its rich delivery.
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DRIFTLAB
http://www.driftlab.com/
Driftlab is the online presence of Scott Cook. It sports
a sleek, simple, animated menu and swift moving animation
to deliver content.
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April
17, 2003
Velocity Studio
http://www.velocitystudio.com/
With plenty of Hollywood style glitz, Velocity Studio
has produced a high bandwidth Flash site that offers
a lot of content to browse. I especially like the power-packed
identities featured in the Projects section.
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Aidan
Kelly - icanphoto
http://www.icanphoto.com/
This is Aidan Kelly's portfolio; simple design and layout
maximize focus on two interesting galleries of photo
images.
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Designspace
http://www.jackie-ellse.com/designspace/
Residing in Cape Town, South Africa, Jackie Ellse has
created a lovely Flash site to display her information,
contact details, portfolio work and CV within an easy
to navigate menu with visually pleasing backgrounds.
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April
10, 2003
organicfields
http://www.organicfields.net/
A design studio comprised of a small group of freelance
professionals, organicfields has created a highly unique
and whimsical web experience with the adorable characters
they bring to life.
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Garnish,
LLC
http://www.addgarnish.com/
Created by Squarewave,
Garnish employs some great colors and solid design to
create this eye-catching website for its founder and
master chef, Elizabeth Gardner.
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Ten
Plus One Communications
http://www.10plus1.com/
A Canadian based company that specializes in visual
communication; Ten Plus One Communication sports an
energetic site that incorporates their own playful identity
branding.
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March
31, 2003
phutura
http://www.phutura.tv
Phutura is a beautifully executed and aesthetically
pleasing Flash interface that offers a clean and organized
presentation of creator Chris Gillespie's digital work
within a great grahical environment.
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Furry's
Adventure
http://www.meanwhileinnowhere.com
(Game 01)
Furry's Adventure (Game 01) was created by Marcus as
a project for one of his past classes. It developed
into a great retro feeling game with endering characters
and cute environments.
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March
21, 2003
Deluxe Inc.
http://www.deluxeinc.com/
Flash ActionScript junkies will especially love Deluxe
Inc. Movement is smooth, navigation and presentation
are very useable and pleasantly quirky. Experiments
are great.
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D2S
Visual Technology
http://www.d2s.de
Wonderful crisp layouts and enticing photo integration
creates a very professional atmosphere.
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J-Station
http://www.jero-m.com/
Nice colors, great graphics and animation make J-Station
a nice stop on the web. Navigation is a little obscure
in some spots but watching for mouse interaction helps
users find their way.
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March
15, 2003
Scary Girl
http://www.scarygirl.com/
An adorable site that's home to Scary Girl; a small
toy character created by Nathan Jurevicius. Good color,
design and super comic illustrations make for a creative,
easy to use online presence with room to fill. Nice
collection of desktop wallpapers. |
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Dtailed
Photography
http://www.dtailedphotography.go.ro/
This is a great photo collection of titled images by
Romanian photographer Tudor Prisacariu. Site offers
an easy to browse gallery with nice use of space and
color in the design. Hope to see much more content appear
in the future. |
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March
6, 2003
Japan Autumn
http://www.japanautumn.cz/
Japan Autumn features links from two exhibits at The
National Gallery in Prague; Art Treasures from Kyoto
and A Surface Created for Decoration, Japanese Lacquer
Art of the 16th-19th centuries. Both of these sites
feature an extremely elegant and intuitive navigation
housed within a richly beautiful visual environments
that do a wonderful job of enhancing the presentation
of information relating these lovely works of art and
their history. |
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February
27, 2003
Heimo Photography
http://www.heimophotography.com/
Lovely animation leads into this nicely constructed
Flash based photo portfolio where nice navigation interactivity
enhances the viewing experience of these fantastic photo
images. |
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Papersky
http://www.moai.it/centro/gab.html
This is a fantastic little Flash movie staring paper
characters in a paper world; simple, quite expressive
and wonderfully creative. |
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Crew
8
http://www.crew8.net/
Crew 8 from HyperIsland
has created this site for themselves with info and links
about each crewmember. There's lots of great talent
to watch for from this group and their nifty site makes
for a great way to discover more about each of them. |
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February
19, 2003
Bafé
http://bafe.nu/
A nicely designed site with tons of personal flair,
Bafe.nu shares a clever and visually pleasing menu with
links and info about projects by the site creator. Pet
enthusiasts will especially enjoy the links for Siri. |
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February
11, 2003
tokyoplastic
http://www.tokyoplastic.com/
Tokyoplastic is a collection of ongoing personal design
collaborations in abstract graphic art. The animations
displayed here are unique and very well executed as
they bring to life to a variety characters and display
the creators many talents. |
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February
3, 2003
Mortadellatv
http://www.mortadellatv.com/
Mortadellatv.com
features some interesting Flash experiments as well
as simple effective animation and great sound integration
that create profound story telling through Flash. This
site is quite entertaining and nicely designed, little
surprise it's receiving so much international attention. |
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January
22, 2003
FionaHewitt.com
http://www.fionahewitt.com
This site is home to Fiona Hewitt, a delightfully creative
woman who offers deliciously rich graphic art, displayed
in an easy to use, fast loading Flash interface. |
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January
6, 2003
The works of Joshua Bernstein (Gandi)
http://www.electronicmiracles.com/sabagandi/
This site, created by electronicmiracles.com, tells
a visual story about Joshua Bernstein's, work. Gandi,
as he is better known in his community, creates intriguing
sculptures utilizing the Israeli desert as his canvas.
The navigation presented at this site is easy to follow
and makes for pleasant viewing of the wonderful photographs
shown from these amazing works of art. The stark desert
is a definite plus in accentuating the drama of these
sculptures. Be sure also to catch a view of the desktop
wallpapers this site offers for download. |
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