A novel net-promoted shopping experience - not all online, and not at your home - theapt asks you visit their store, which is really a well furnished apartment in NYC's soho area. theapt.com is a teaser for a shopping experiment that caters to people looking for a diversion from the usual shopping experience. Furnishing an apartment in New York and selling items right out of the living room is a new venture, and theapt.com site created the online buzz needed to make the apartment a promotional success.... Read more
the ad*itive bills itself as a cultural creative shop: a place that connects brands and people together. This is not a web shop - it is probably best described as a new age marketing firm. The site design is highly visual and subtly active, built in Flash and enhanced by photography, sound, animated pictographs and good typography. Web designers familiar with some of their previous designs will accurately recognize this as the work of One9ine.... Read more
A showcase of branding, Spy merges 3-Com network products into an online spy story. This site is no longer active. For a tight frames site with impeccable navigation, Spychaser can't be beat. It's tough for the site to really capture your attention for long, but the branding experience is worthwhile. This promo site is down since this posting.... Read more
A museum of finessed shading and delicate dimentions in web design. And not just the site - check out Softimage to see creative 3-D experiments by amateurs and professionals alike. This site artfully enforces Softimage's role as leaders in 3-D software development and design. You can find variations of great bevel work in some of these previous gallery features: qaswa, anderson consulting and kasparov vs. deep blue.... Read more
More than just one site, these designed marketing vehicles for Adobe's suite of development tools are great interactive 'mini-sites'. These sites dazzle and amaze with rich-media, dynamic movement, animations and novel navigational interfaces. Smash showcases with a 4-Quadrant navigation, while Defy takes you through a linear walk-through of a ground-up development of Defy itself with it's 'reverse deconstruction' metaphor for the design. Adobe recently released a third such promo-site featuring more of the same with a slightly more hip & digital design - to market to even younger users. (See link below).... Read more
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This emotive wonder was created last year for Lycos's Halloween Hot Picks. It's a conceptual wonder - fine textures and subtle movements evoke fear among surfers of the web! A spooky conceptual demo created last Holloween (1996) by Entropy8 for Lycos. The design treatment combines script type and some early English type to create an antique, gothic feel.... Read more
Safe Route is a limited route shipping company that operates at the southern cape of Africa. The design, in deep rich blue tones, alludes to nautical pursuits. Saferoute's design around the concept is what makes this a choice site. Originally designed in South Africa. The site is down since this posting.... Read more
Renamo is a tight and tidy little site for a UK marketing company. The firm was recently re-branded with a military theme and this site extends that brand online. The typography is well thought out (although it could be a little more readable) and the individual design concepts - using field reports and a topographic map navigation - all work together to reflect a style of "street-level" marketing.... Read more
Precision's design enforces an excellent concept that creates an cohesive environment so users are always visually reminded of where they are visiting. This site forms a cohesive and contained shell where the design, thanks to a strong concept, reminds and enforces this company's field of expertise to us at every page.... Read more
With small-town theme music pumping an atmosphere of serenity through your headphones, the Outsource Corporation uses basic Sim-like icon illustrations to seal their sophisticated outsourcing services. The animated rep attempts to sell the service, but untimely quips about premature baldness and other random facts distract from an already complicated plan. Nevertheless, Outsource offers an amusing effort for a pedestrian service proposal.... Read more
