Explore this dreamy future landscape park for the new album from Air. Starting from the short introduction - one of the few we actually enjoyed watching - begin a virtual trip through beautifully rendered vistas devoid of words, complete with selected atmospheric vibes from the groovy electronic group. The pages are graphically rich, thus the page loads are quite slow.... More
The ambient shapes, minutely detailed animation and cool gray wash make this a favorite for overall design. Sometimes we felt the intro was a bit long and some of the navigation a bit too tech, but for fans of the ambient and electronic DJ genre, this site sets the mark for beauty. Includes a well designed Flash keyboard mixer for you to play.... More
A gorgeous full-screen collage design for a sensual, delicate group of three indie musicians from Brooklyn, New York. The full-page collages hit all the right notes, emoting a soft and natural feeling, combined with a smattering of photos of the beautiful pop group. Wispy, but solid and grounded with flattering, feminine strength.... More
Bandpush is a strategic publicity campaign that helps to increase awareness for independent artists, record companies and corporate partners in Canada. Basically, musicians compile a demo and submit it for their next event... while Bandpush gathers support from sponsors and drums up the brands together with the tunes. We really loved this textural site design using yellow and distressed brown tones. It also has a perfect complimentary use of typography. The nicely layered page features a mix of aged, distressed and uneven textures to make this page simply touchable... stroke it. Love it.... More
As complete and through as possible, this graphic and architectural wonder leaves little room for improvement. The Flash-driven navigation is a showcase for an ever improving design team and their final solution for this amazing project. As deep as it is wide, Motown is the ultimate culmination of great design, Flash technology and interface development that represents the height of online design and the essense of great user interaction. What we loved best was the intuitive simplicity that solved the challenge of presenting an entire history of musical information with visual impact. Motown enables the user to decide exactly what they want to see and which moment of history to explore by providing dual complimentary navigations; historical and visual (by artist). Designed by:... More
From the talent of Entropy8 designer Auriera Harvey comes an amazingly textured record label site. The red duotones, rough typography, and 'conscious' imagery make this small promotional site burst at the seams. A beautiful calling-card site promoting Conscience Records. The excellence in design lies in the realization of complex layed textures that captures attention on screen.... More
Great hand-drawn chalk lines for navigation and typography. High clarity despite the haphazard appearance. Soft rock acoustic not our thing, but design-wise this site rocks hard.... More
More of an interface site design with few pages, this site goes heavy on the fine line and grid details - much of which have no function aside from being very aesthetically pleasing.... More
Candy striped and minimal, EB makes for pure exploring fun while you get introduced to the new album, Chocolate Garden. Download all the songs as MP3, for free, or peruse the photo album, check the bulletin board and play small interactive games.... More
Winner of the 2000 Flash Film Festival, 'Welcome, This is a Farmhouse' is the Flash site for the band Phish and their new album. Phish have demostrated an eye for web design before, and this development is great for it's overall design, but also because it breaks new ground in Flash navigation. Farmhouse presents an environment where elements of the design must be pulled on and dragged to reveal snippets of interviews, songs, movies and content. The illustration and design is fantastic but the Flash animation and true interactivity enhance it to greatness.... More
Fans of Flash will find this site clean, accessible and quietly fun. The interface work is great - emulating equalizer bars - and the color scheme and open spaces combined with great photos make this site a sharp accomplishment.... More
An impressive interactive design concept supported by excellent functionality: this is one of the first 4.0 generation sites that really delivers - concept, visuals, sound, interactivity + variety. The website design plays on the phrase "you can't see the forest for the trees." Individual artists were each commissioned to do an interactive interpretation of a particular track for the Dreamworks album without knowing what the other participants were doing, or how it would all come together. The result is a forest of trees testifying to the inspiration of the visionary soundscapes in Forest for the Trees.... More
