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Compose some really large-screen collages and designs, throw in a smear of typography, illustration, and make it all interact with scripts and time-lines, and you have a pretty good picture of the day-in, day-out life of a Flash designer. But instead of using your imagination, you can just check out this pretty fantastic, simple portfolio of Flash designer Nick Jones.... More
Yugo Nakamura is a creative director, designer and engineer exploring various forms of interactive system in digital and networked environment. Exhibited, awarded, and lectured in Asia, U.S.A and Europe.... More
Australian-based DDX narrows the lens to focus on an macrocosm of potential Flash applications. Developing platforms and applications in Flash, from CMS to publishers, and widgets. Using technology to create multimedia solutions.... More
Rareview fuses progressive interactive design and development to produce advanced web experiences. They specialize in creating interactive data-driven websites and complex rich media applications, primarily built with Flash.... More
Independent creative designers with offices in London and New York. Focused on fashion, but branching out through solid relationships and referrals. Great sites and Flash designs, produced with passion. One of UK's fastest growing agencies.... More
Flash development & design specialists from a studio down under, Australia. Dedicated only to Flash sites – but including video, music, games, animation and more. Creating and pushing for innovative experiences.... More
Japanese computer graphic artist and explorer... Freelance web designer and movie programmer, Masaki explores Flash math-based designs, but also his own consciousness, and the intentional repression of feelings. This helps him create his unique and awarded art.... More
Quentin is a creative and technologist. An organic enthusiast of Flash ActionScript. His skill set includes PHP, mySQL, CSS, you name it. When it comes to interactive design, he is a ten year veteran. Building web applications, and loving it!... More
A pretty dark, and baroque feeling site for this Flash specialty group. Their work, starting from 2004, centers around interactive design and exploring new technologies. So, when it comes to the latest Flash techniques, like Papervision3D, these guys try to squeeze out all the possibilities, to provide the ultimate user experience.... More
Get ready to have a wallpaper seizure! If are photo-light sensitive, then be warned, you may need to find a dark corner after checking out this fractal-inspired Flash site of Japanese artist and designer, Taro Kudo. Of course, this is more than a wallpaper site... it's about art, experimentation, and creating a mood. A bit difficult to navigate, sure... but certainly unique! Straight from Tokyo, Japan.... More
Here's a Finnish firm that truly lets their work do the talking. Their web site copy is basically limited to one phrase: "We are a digital agency" and one full-screen showreel. Of course, when you watch the showreel, the post-production work is so in your face that it makes their work appear more vivacious then a browser ever could... But it makes us think they come close! If catching our attention was the goal, they did it with flying colors, and then some. Cool stuff.... More
Mr. Johnson is a 'back-end' guy. He tolls behind the scenes, developing Flash for fashion and lifestyle sites. His clients are New York based agencies – from createthe, to Monolith and Soap Creative to name a few. This jack of all trades (especially Flash, but CSS, HTML and design too) has carved a niche for himself, and has a sexy portfolio to show for it. We appreciate a well-rounded back-end. (Did that come out right?)... More
Human centered design and innovation seems to be the obvious direction to take for a planet filled with humans... Right? At U PLEAT, in Korea, designers focus on usability and innovation together, creating artistic and commercial experiences, with a focus on "Human Love". They certainly spared no expense to develop fantastic, professional (production level) portfolio site. A very interesting design agency from Korea, and one to watch.... More
POKE creates some pretty innovative, and beautiful Flash interactive work from their humble studio on Bond Street, NYC. Just a year old, this 'studio' turned into a 'firm' rapidly, based on some solid design work for BBC, Luxottica, and Dell. Great interface work, original ideas, and a creative push for invention that defines what a young web firm should be all about. Just cool.... More
M Studio is a small Flash specialty studio that develops engaging, and award winning user-experiences. Their specialty is working with visual firms to achieve the best implementation of technology to create compelling interactive media. This award winning site design was realized by MSLK, and the programming was created in-house (of course). One of the best all-around, minimalist portfolio sites we've seen in years!... More
Red Interactive Agency is an agency with a singular focus... to push the interactive technology of today to its limits to craft the most immersive experiences possible for their clients. For now, what this philosophy boils down to is heavily awarded visual advertising campaigns and marketing sites for several clients in the entertainment industry. But if their projects weren't proof enough, this company with two offices (Studio City, CA and Salt Lake, UT) in the USA, has transformed their portfolio site into a showcase for some of their abilities — it's a living chat room with customizable avatars that can run, punch and fly through a small virtual world with other users. Pretty neat suff... practically useless, yes... but a fine demonstration of what this firm can do, and ultimately a solid calling card.... More
What do you get when creativity and marketing are blended, watered, nurtured and harvested at its prime? At odopod – a strong Flash design and UI innovation studio in the San Francisco area – the product is highly artistic, merging illustration, animation and clean interface design to create a perfect modern mash-up of storytelling and functional usability. Working mostly in Flash, their bread and butter is a slew of work for Nike, creating many of their "yo-factor" sports websites. Hip, current, media and technology savvy—the sky's the limit for this medium-sized firm.... More
MindSmack is a full-service agency providing everything from comprehensive web design, to Flash interaction, programming and technical support. In their polished, metallic portfolio site, they unveil a number of bold and animated design projects—from a promo site for a popular illusionist, to promotional Flash designs for CitiGroup. Overall, an interactive firm with a strong penchant for the moving image and Flash.... More
Square Circle is a full service creative multimedia agency with a staff of visual artists, developers and producers who interact to create award winning solutions for internet, broadcast, CD/DVD and print. They have one of the slicker 'zooming' flash sites out there, which lets you pan across a virtual work-table of goodies that you can interact with to discover all about the company. Definitely cutting close to the edge of what can be done in high-end web design.... More
One of the premiere web design firms and Flash developers in Brazil—Grafikonstruct specializes in the design of Flash-powered sites for the fashion industry and other purveryors of style. These are the guys to go to if you want to engage your audience with sophisticaed graphics and interactive sites... Our only critique was the awkwardness of their site—in the quest to make an uber-Flashy showcase, they lost sight of usability and the power of basic copy. In the end, the work speaks for itself, and until they redesign, the latest projects are one click away on the homepage.... More
In the world of online freelance designers Jorge Calleja's portfolio stands tall as tour-de-force in interactive Flash, 3D design and motion graphics. His work for some of the top new media firms like Juxt, Exoplolis and Group W consists of only the cream of the crop projects. Apparently, whatever this proudly Mexican designer/artist gets his hands on, turns into bright, multimedia gold.... More
Somewhere between gritty rock tatoos and little pink butterflies exists the detailed Flash design of Martin Wolfinger a.k.a. Matt Spanky. Martin's designs focus on posters, cd packaging and "in your face" Flash websites where he creates a sexy, dark and intense feel—but also likes to apply a healthy dose of fuscia!... More
247 is creative and technical development studio with a rather atypical structure; they are an open company of talented designers and programmers forming a collective, sharing projects and ideas. This in turn leads them to create work for an eclectic group of clients. This freedom to explore what they like leads to some immersive and powerful results for webdesign, multimedia and crossmedia productions. To sum up in a few words? Their Flash sites totally rock.... More
createthe group is the leading full-service interactive agency with a niche approach to luxury, fashion and retail brands. They are the online experts at delivering effective and creative interactive solutions for the fashion world: world class brand and e-commerce websites, strategic online marketing campaigns and cutting edge technology tools. When it comes to developing the best Flash sites for the luxury market, createthe group – with offices in New York, Milan and London – provides highly visual, functional and often, gorgeous solutions.... More
When you're doing work for the premiere graphic design/multimedia software companies, you gotta have the skills to push their software to the limits... so it's no surprise that Method has top of their class portfolio that includes a variety of big names in addition to Adobe and Macromedia. Their other clients range from the artistic (Lincoln Film Society) to the corporate (Merril Lynch), and they cover everything from website design and branding to printing and user research. One-stop shopping, right here.... More
These guys have been playing the digital branding game since 1992. They use words like "segmentation," "methodology," and (our favorite) "solutions," and talk about things like "work flow" and "implementation"... but what it all boils down to is that they are a very technology savvy firm. They have a winning roster of corporate websites and advertising campaigns, for clients ranging from IBM to Bed, Bath And Beyond. If you dig a little deeper into their site, you'll learn that before they got into online material, they pioneered motion graphic technology for films like Superman and Alien. Currently, their showcase work (and largest exclusive client) is the interactive Nike+ site for runners.... More
The online home of Less Rain is energized by all the rich media you could name. It's a powerhouse of design prototypes, which is especially impressive from such a small company. Less Rain has a particular ethos: "making a few design elements work more intelligently, unusually, and organically." Their portfolio is a rich compendium of web works for clients like Red Bull and Hennessy, but offline works include the world's largest victory monument for the Nike Scorpion Football Event. This firm can do anything. Anything.... More
In this version of Juxt Interactive's site, or of their many refined Flash projects, it's obvious there is a meticulous attention to detail—and, hence, design. Which is probably why, year-after-year, we list a hefty postion of their portfolio in our webdesign gallery. Whether you seek web design or Juxt's individual brand of art, you'll find high quality, awarded, fun Flash design and interactive promotions. Great stuff. Again: Great. Stuff.... More
You know you've stumbled onto something special when you sense a light breeze tickling your screen. Very sensuous, slightly feminine, and with a clearly Eastern influence, MAP (previously DesignUnion, est. 2002) is a relatively new boutique with impressive and sophisticated clients. Paul Lee is the man; he majored in Rhetoric at Berkeley (who knew that would prove so marketable?), with an MFA from Yale. A bonus: he is fluent in Korean. And more than fluent in spare and lovely design. Go see. You'll feel rinsed.... More
More fun than quality time with the PS2! 2Advanced has their demographic in the cross-hairs with an interface straight from the sci-fi channel. We don’t care if they’re trekkies or techies (or a highly advanced hybrid of the two) – the work shines like C3PO’s butt. They say they employ the world’s finest, web, motion and graphics folks - well, we believe them – just about every byte on the site proves it. This latest verision (V.5) is no exception, and exemplifies the company's most complex blend of user aesthetics and backend technology to date. Their redesign includes internationalization features, XML based data caching system, Dynamic Deep Linking, and entirely dynamic content. Big words that mean this Flash site works as good as it looks... It's just as rich and complex as the futuristic background illustrations that embellish each area. Forget that it takes us 5-6 clicks to locate a... More
Remember the days when films just had posters and maybe a trailer or two? Big Spaceship was one of the firms to change that. These guys are behind the websites of many of the major Hollywood films you've seen recently. We love visiting websites for movies—especially when the website is better than the movie itself. (Catwoman, we're looking your way.) But that's not where the Big Spaceship stops. They've also produced cutting edge Flash sites for Nike and Coca-Cola... well, you ask; "who hasn't?" That's true... but at least they're not one-trick-Hollywood-ponys.... More
A flamboyant Flash designer and Flash motion specialist, Piotr (Peter) Lupinski, has provided a (temporary) one page online showcase of his rather full portfolio of professional looking work. In a sense, it appears as a type of "Fibonacci spiral" timeline, although no dates are provided; just the number of days taken to complete each project. Piotr has set the bar high for any forth-coming iterations and we're sure to follow and support any new works from this artist in the future. Flamaster2 (Poland).... More
Okay, you have to admit that Burger King's Subservient Chicken website is a riot. You know the one—the psuedo live video feed of a guy in a chicken suit who will do anything you want? It's hilarious and brilliant (and got over one billion hits), which is why we are excited to learn that barbarian group was the firm behind it. Their entire modus operandi, while exceedingly professional, is to create unique and surprising online advertising. Visit their website. You'll find links to a host of large projects, and not just games... but Flash specialty marketing, hotsites, and online advertising... but also a whole slew of cool online games. Marketing made fun.... More
Futurefarmers is cultivating your consciousness with a bevy of animated critters, wry humor, and a brand that has propelled founder Amy Franceschini to designer stardom. It has also captured such clients as Adobe, The New York Times, Swatch, and a creative cache of hip San Francisco galleries. The web site sports an impressive corporate portfolio and an array of visual stimuli, "for-fun" projects, and web dramas. The latter range from "Deface the President" to a Kosovo Elf shoot 'em up game. The firm's fascinating book, Harvest, is available for purchase, too. These folks never sleep... and we want some o' what they use!... More
