Site promoting the Autumn / Winter 2010/11 collection of Lois Jeans. Interesting 3d interface, with 3d cubes constantly moving past to offer a nice sense of depth. With thumbnails of the latest clothes set into 3d triangles that constantly reorganise into new shapes – click on them to zoom in. Nice clean interface, well designed and works great.

Created by Nectar Estudio.

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Site of Scandinavian agency hellodave! Set in a slick dark interface with 3d panels flying around moving with your cursor. By clicking on the thumbnails all of the panels reorganise to show a video player for that project. Really nice animations and transitions – love the camera movement with your mouse – it is very very smooth, and the shading and lighting is well executed. Very nice…

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Beautiful website promoting the release of an album collaboration of Dangermouse, Sparklehorse, and David Lynch. Set in a dark 3d world, where exploration is the key, a card pop up interface unfolds before you. By dragging parts of the cardboard world you reveal content, new imagery, video, and sounds from the album. I love the way you explore, clicking and dragging forwards zooms in/out, and dragging left / right pans around. The lighting also changes with the depth of your viewpoint, and it changes on the cardboard pieces that you drag around – really incredible attention to detail. The feeling of depth is incredible, giving a great sense of ambience and setting a fascinating scene. The setting is fantastic, it works like a charm, and it looks stunning, really refreshing work…

Created by WEFAIL.

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Site promoting the new TV series about ‘Carlos’ a terrorist. Follow the trail of Carlos throughout the world and see where key events happened. Really slick site with incredible execution throughout. Love the 3d globe, clicking zooms in to various locations, similar to Google Earth, to give a montage of material about the event with press clippings, video clips, and so on. The montage itself is nicely laid out and you can pan your view around to reveal more items giving each location a back story. The level of detail is quite incredible, with seamless transitions from the 3d globe to the end scene, well designed, amazing animation and polish, really great work…

Created by BETC Euro RSCG, Douny, and Circus.

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Simple & slick branding site from Mercedes Benz USA. Featuring an array of videos and images wrapped around a smart 3d interface. I really like the 3d menu system that is very modern and sleek but remaining easy and fun to use. Some nice content here too, all with a thick layer of polish.

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Website of French agency Panolie. Pretty interesting, standard layout but all with a twist and some injected personality. The scrolling up and down also brings weird blobs and interactive things onto screen, all adding a nice feeling of depth. Clicking on a project and clicking left/right shows a really cool 3d cloth effect. Nice attention to detail and a bit different.

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Website of photographer Vicente Diaz Penas. Quite normal, until you click and drag, then you see that the photos are mapped to a 3d surface to give the impression of depth. On some images it works really well, a very interesting effect, a nice concept…

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Website promoting ‘Forum’ a Brazilian fashion label. Cool interface, very nicely laid out with typography, 3d objects, video and photography. Coupled with slick and smooth animation and loads of nice touches, in particular I like the mechanism used to show off their products a very cool interactive slideshow. Also really like the intro withe the 3d wireframes overlaid with video – Very nice…

Created by grafikonstruct.

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Interesting site trying to change our perception and attitude towards cancer. Encouraging the fight against cancer you can post images, text, and so on. Set in a 3d interface with all the comments and photos floating up in 3d space which you can interact with, it looks great and works nicely. Nice ‘fun’ idea, inspiring message, and well executed.

Created by Pacwebco.

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Portfolio of Jongmin Kim, interactive designer and photographer. Nice work in a fresh portfolio, interactive work in a smooth 3d interface, and all his photos plotted by date and location on a map. Loads of cool transitions and animation, interactivity is simple and smart, nicely designed – all in all a good portfolio site with a bit of extra polish that really makes it come alive.

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Website of Grimm Gallun Holtappels, German agency. Combining real environment and 3d interactive objects this site really comes alive. Travelling through what looks like an office, thumbnails of their projects can be dragged along through the space and expanded to find out more. By clicking on the coloured boxes you can explore lots of different areas, the zoom function is really cool as well. I love the motion tracking of the 3d objects and the faux camera / POV movement. The animation is super smooth, with an amazing level of detail and timing. It looks great also, with every button and feature well considered and designed. Love it!

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Portfolio of Japanese agency TYA. Set in a floating 3d space which is explorable through mouse movements. The ‘creative’ section highlights their work, with thumbnails moving through a floating space – allowing you to sit back and watch the projects float past. Nice camera movement and cool transitions and animation.

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