Sunday, February 26, 2006

flashsites of interest





I like this flashsite because it really tries to experiments with the conventions of website navigation. The news paper is the container for its information, the user navigates its content by mouse {clicking and scrolling}. After you get to the destination specified, a pen animation circles the heading of the location. Its a coincidence that the posters that I am designing have a lot in common with this flashsite, whereas both deal with new media and old media and how it communicating to its audiences through its use digitally and traditionally. It is also pretty interesting that the buttons for the photography is in the content of the photographed newspaper.

http://www.conceptm.nl/

This site is very clean and professional, whereas the use of white space is designed in a modern form that follows the function of it. The photos are displayed in sequential fashion but have subtle thing that goes on with the photo that entails a screen that disappears with ever consecutive photo shown. I really like navigating the photos, because the space that the information occupies changes in different ways and which keeps it dynamic. Structure plays a interesting part with the axis lines that are created with the characters and are used to organize and group the information that one navigates. This flash-site makes me want to learn Japanese so I can understand its valuable content.

http://www.shiroganeya.co.jp/

3 comments:

Courtney said...

i agree with carley, that newspaper site reminded me of Minority Report, where it looks like the newspaper format we have now, but with dynamic content. There is a small navigation bar that acts as an automatic table of contents for the page- it pans across the space, smoothly transitioning the viewer to the appropriate location. In one sense, this is a very interesting approach to take the viewer to the destination, but in another sense, it is denying the viewer the experience of navigating through the space and exploring it on their own.

I also enjoyed the Japanese Inn site, the transitions were so placating, very soothing and smoothly executed. The movement of the kanji as one navigates from one page to the next is truly what gives the viewer a sense of tranquility, like the word is a leaf that is floating to the ground. In addition, the small dots that slowly fade on the images are a nice visual aesthetic that almost makes the experience dream-like

ashleep said...
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ashleep said...

i was so amazed at the idea of the website with the newspaper navigation. it was such a simple design but it communicated a complex idea about the relationship between old media and new media. i was just so impressed with the little extra clever details such as the "sudoku" and the contact section. the idea of the whole website seemed to flow so seamlessly, like it took no effort to create. Like David Ulrich (digital photo professor) said about good art and how it takes alot of time and effort to create, but when the finished product is presented, it seems to flow effortlessly.