Awarding websites since June of 2000, The Favourite Website Awards (The FWA) is an abundantly astonishing accumulation of some of the best websites the world has ever seen. They describe themselves as, "An industry recognized award program and inspirational portal". Designers and developers, from around the world, submit sites to be subjected to the assiduous scrutiny of The FWA's varied panel of judges. The aspiring end, is the prestigious FWA website award, added web-traffic, and the glory and honor accompanying it. Design,...
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Formerly Art Partitions, LYNNEL Art to Form is striving to revise and expand the ways in which original artwork can be used in commercial and residential settings. Their process employs digital technology to enhance and transfer artistic compositions to glass, acrylic, fabric, metal, and wall coverings for use in a wide range of environments. In the original meetings to discuss the design and interface that would become the site, words like "architectural" and "minimal" were used very often, but in the context of separate...
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It’s that time of year again! Time to grab your camera, bundle up, head up the hill, build a handsome and corpulent snowman, and take pictures of him for the day. What a fun project! I’m sure he must have been absolutely delightful to work with (and I must admit, i'm slightly jealous)! Todd Langley and his photography have been an inspiration to me for a number of years now. Langley and I have worked together on numerous projects including photography and motion...
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“Regarded as an expression of an old way of life,” Sassi di Matera is a prodigious conservation project located in beautiful southern Italy, just a mere 240-km southwest from Naples. This project is one of many similar projects, aimed at preserving the renowned heritage of the historic Bronze age civilizations and monastic communities. The story surrounding this place is absolutely astonishing, yet troublesome. Quoting from their website, “One of the most impressive epics of the southern Italian peasants, enslaved to this region’s...
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This is a promotional website for Indie band Concave Scream’s latest instrumental album - Soundtrack For A Book. As you may know I absolutely love Adobe Flash and all the creative liberty it offers, not to mention I also have this curious fascination with 3D interfaces. This website utilizes both of these elements and takes them to avant-garde measures, rarely seen. The 3D visualization is dazzling and impressive. I could seriously be preoccupied with this visualizer for hours. The music is also...
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We are typeface geeks and you should be too, thus the natural gravitation to this site. Sliders are also very cool and significant goodies of our design and development tools, and tend to be a reoccurring theme for us. The main interface for this site is based on a gigantic slider, for the entire site is essentially a big scroll-bar. Adobe Flash and ActionScript 3.0 provide some super clean light-weight easing and makes the user's experience that much more enjoyable; it is...
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Produced by Primitive Entertainment in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, WATERLIFE is an inspiring documentary detailing the story of the last great supply of fresh drinking water on earth. From the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, this compelling film powerfully illustrates the significance of this great water supply. According to their website, "As the source of drinking water, fish and emotional sustenance for 35 million people, the Great Lakes are under assault by toxins, sewage, invasive species, dropping...
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Elaborate and distinguished Photoshop work with mock-3D-panning style websites have been a long-time tradition here at Kalos Interactive Design. Renowned local Photoshop genius Benny Yarnell and I have collaborated on a handful of these specific style sites to date and have become a prominent practice of ours, due to popular demand. Painstakingly detailed imagery, appropriate for the particular brand & identity of the given company or concept, is carefully and methodically constructed to communicate a particular message. Next, the final imagery is...
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