Lounge Lizard
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This small site for a hybrid industrial and product design company features some nice gratuitous 3-D Flash movement and good overall cohesion and 'sense of space'. The highlight of this very crisp design is the green, living, modular and sometimes gooey nav system found positioned at the bottom left which guides you through the six basic pages of the site.... More
Home of the legendary eyewear designers ic! berlin, this site is just pure fun in a fabulous line work design which emphasizes the feather light style of designer glasses. It's rare to see such playful creativity in a product site, but ic! berlin crosses the line in this award winning site with lots of playful visuals - after all, if you are going to treat your eyes to some great looking designer frames, why not have a fun visual site too? It's a perfect marriage of promotion, art and design crafted with a confident, light-hearted attitude. Explore this site, and your eyes will thank you!... More
This large industrial design firm's site is an excellent example of Swiss design methodologies. Strong linear Swiss grid techniques lend support to this visual structure while the contrast of the bright yellows and blues help highlight the products. Ideo enlisted the excellent web talents of Metadesign to create their website, which garnered several web design accolades and awards for their innovative and appropriate design solution.... More
Iomega's site employs a 'templated' design concept of bold lines and tonal balance that differentiates a range of products while it still maintains unity under a single brand. Their heavily framed section dividers invoke the same design used in the package and identity design on their data storage products and equipment. This site has since been redesigned.... More
Even if the Rondo is not a true "green" car, this design for the Kia Rondo site is very eco-friendly and happy—it is actually a mid-sized hybrid SUV with the fuel efficiency of a sedan... but it does not use any alternative fuels. And the bright copy and fictional marketing words like "giddyupidness" and "cabinocity" remind us a little bit of the Tour De France branding on TV in 2006: "The Cyclism". None of this is necessarily a bad thing! It's "enlightening" that car companies are beginning to base some of their marketing around eco-friendly appearing designs... it's just not truly eco-friendly until it's not creating pollution at all. But we loved the soft rainbow colors, and the happy marketing copy. We also liked the idea of small puzzle-based mini-games, enforcing the concept of a car for "smart" people. It maybe a bit too cheery for us, personally, but for... More
Heralded as one of the world's most luxurious sedans, Maybach Manufaktur is a lineage of traditional craftsman who create an exclusive class of hand-finished saloon style automobile. From bumper to bumper, interior to exterior, the Maybach sedan exudes beauty, refinement and sophistication. Therefore it only makes sense that their online presence is in a class far above and beyond any other automotive web sites. On their site, you can bask in the the rich heritage dating back to the late 1890's and follow the history of the Maybach founders to the present day, as a part of DaimlerChrysler Works. Crafted in alluring beige and brown tones, the site truly exemplifies the magical aura of the Maybach Manufactur line of high-end sedans. Certainly, best of breed for the category.... More
We've always been big fans of wood textures in websites – and even more so when it compliments the subject matter. In this case, the site is for a Belgian furniture design company. And like the furniture itself, the site uses classic grid-based design—pure simplicity with wood texture backgrounds.... More
Here's an interesting site (we missed) that launched back in 2005... Remote controlled, dynamic lighting—an advanced lighting solution that brings the rythmic fluctuations of daylight into the working environment. Dynamic Lighting is something you install into your home or office that alternates between blends of cool and warm light to create a stimulating (or soothing) ambience, based upon the time of day, or your own preferences. It's a really interesting technology, and this clean, sky-tones-on-white website has all the right demos and diagrams to communicate the concept with the utmost clarity.... More
Hummingbirds, asymmetrical berries and mathematical rain are just a few of designs you'll find in this beautiful site for a custom wallpaper design studio. Why frame your art when you can have it as a repeating pattern all over your walls? Porter Teleo puts the art back into wallpaper by using very minimal concepts - a type of Japanese sensibility - and abstract shapes incorporated into harmonious color schemes. And the site, designed by Shawn Sanem Art & Design, brings out all the beauty of the art inside by allowing it to take center stage. It's a perfect harmony of art, product and online visibility vehicle.... More
Saab A clean and picturesque place for cruising through the simplicity of Saab's automotive wonders. Saab is a delicate and finely balanced corporate site. The light balance and subtle shades of colors hints at elegance and craftmanship while the precisely positioned shots and close-ups speak more to the underlying power of engineering coming from the twofold craftsmen of jet planes and automobiles. Overall, a simple and classic site that also provides multiple language support without sacrificing design. The site was redesigned recently, but it did not loose any of it's beauty and even gained some usability features in the process.... More
Every once in a while, we come across a site or portfolio that truly breaks new ground in interaction and interface design... Of course, you don't need to read any farther to know what you can only experience by visiting the site. But let's just fill in the blanks; This is an art and industrial design portfolio website for the works of a creative duo from Hungary. Spavia (both sections) contains artworks and projects in ceramics and porcelain, silicate design products, paintings, photograms and photography. Kudos go out to these two who have obviously contemplated the medium (Flash) and made their portfolio very easy to use and understand, while also developing a highly original creation. (Added HINT: Use intuitive keyboard buttons to "walk" through instead of clicking.)... More
