Mockingjay

District 13

This is a great promo site for the most recent Hunger Games movie. It's really interactive and the details of it really makes it look like you are trying to hack into The Capital or something. The background is super interactive, all the grey squares are character profiles. The hover-over looks pretty cool as well. When you look at each profile, lines connect to the ones you have looked at, so maybe something happens after you look at all of them. 

Maaemo

Maaemo Restaurant

At first glance, this really doesn't look like a website for a restaurant, looks more like for something related to the outdoors due to the mountains. There isn't even any images of food other than the few things that the people are holding in the pictures, but it works with showing what kind of restaurant they are...really fancy.

Fueled

Fueled

This website is for a design firm. I like the black and white image with the text on top as well as their red logo being the only main color. It's an infinity scrolling site and there's an outline of a mobile phone featuring some apps they have created. Phone and contents change between the sections which I think is pretty neat, especially when you keep the phone half way between two sections because you can see the two app demo videos running at the same time. 

Expedition Northern Lights

Expedition Northern Lights

The visuals of this website is really nice. I like the logo and how the extra border around it is the loading bar. The game itself also looks really nice and it mixes the game footage with live footage. Too bad the contest is only for Europe :(. 

Letters

letters

The lines is what makes this website interesting. The home page is very intricate and you can change it from white to black. Their loading symbol is also very interesting and goes well with the overall appearance of the website. 

Voice Have Power

voiceshavepower.com

After a while of looking at website designs, they all start looking the same in terms of their structure, so I find it harder to find something with a different structure than everything else.

This website has a grid structure, but what makes it different are the blocks they use to section each piece of information. The blocks themselves are not too consistent, so it doesn't feel too repetitive until you get down to the tweets. The tweets are also in blocks and I appreciate the size of the block to give the tweet space to stand on it's own.

- Catherine

Destiny

Destiny

The website is beautifully done. It's for the video game Destiny, so I think it's totally appropriate for them to use over sized images to showcase the game. The page that I think is most impressive is the landing page where you select what plant you want to go to because of the movement and text that fades in and out. It looks like there are a lot of layers of movement to it because not only do the planets move relative to their distance, but so does the lens flare and the stars in the background. 

- Catherine

Only

onlystudio.co.uk

I really like the swiss design with this website. It's really clean, simple, and modern. There is a little animation for the color block with text, just enough to capture your interest, but not enough to distract you from the actual content of the site. They put the nav bar in a hidden menu which reduces the "clutter" at the top, and when you click on it, the menu fills up the space. It's really subtle, but I really like the transition of the "x out" button when you exit the menu. The animation is very fluid and really connects the menu to the actual site. 

- Catherine 

Nice and Serious

niceandserious.com

The landing animation is really nice because it captures your interest without having to sit through a whole video. I like the irregular grid they have going on with their info/link boxes. When you hover over them, the image becomes smaller and blurry which allows the text that appears to stand out. It goes against what I typically expect to happen (where an image usually gets bigger when hovered over) which is why I found it interesting. They have some jittering going on on their work page when you hover over the images, but other than that, I think it's a well designed website. 

- Catherine 

Clumpies

clumpies.com

Clumpies Ice cream has an infinite scroll website, which is not that original, but what intrigued me the most was how they listed their ice cream flavors. To me, they are very appealing pictures of scoops of ice cream, but I really enjoy how they turn a little when you hover over them. It's visually more interesting and gives it character more so than if they kept the scoops static. The video at the top of the page is also well done and captivated my interest for several cycles. It's like ice cream porn. The only issue I see is that the music button on the video end up over rather than under the nav bar when you scroll up.

- Catherine 

Schumann & Company

schumannco.com

I really like how the division between the menu and the slide show is at an angle. Not only does it correspond to the angle of the slashes of the menu, but it also makes the page more dynamic. I also like how the solid color matches the pallet of whatever image is next to it. When you click on a photographer's name, the their photos come up and I appreciate all the space there is to the right of them as opposed to just centering the images.

- Catherine 

Ahh

ahh.com

Here is a Coca-Cola website that was featured in my newly arrived Lurzer's Archive (Vol.04-2014). I thought the illustrations were pretty cute and I like the interaction with the buttons. "Behind" each button is a game that you can play, but it leads to another page, which I would have preferred if it was a pop-up kind of page. Based on how the homepage is laid out, you should click on the last button and go to the game page just to look at how long the web address is.

- Catherine

PS: My highscore for the cat laser pointer game is 29. Can you beat it? (shouldn't be too hard :P)

The Drawing Room

thedrawingroomcreative.com

What I like about the design of this website is the unconventional diamond layout, as opposed to a normal grid with squares or rectangles. It really makes it eye catching and dynamic do to all the diagonal edges. I also like how the information comes up when you hover over each image as well as the transition between pages. The typefaces used are futura and athelas, which I just discovered and used for the last GDS122 exercise (it was meant to be!).

- Catherine

Architecture for Dogs

architecturefordogs.com

When I am designing a website, I tend to be a bit afraid of just using white as the background when the content doesn't span the whole width of the page because it might look to boring and plain. For Architecture for Dogs, the white background really compliments the style of the website and provides a blank canvas for the images. I also really like how the style of the website compliments the style of the furniture for the dogs: clean, modern, and geometric. 

- Catherine 

Dom Perignon

domperignon.com/rose2002

I absolutely love this website because of the user interaction with it as well as the simplicity of it. It's something that is not seen very often with websites these days, probably because in only specific circumstances where something like this would be appropriate. This website being for wine, I think it is suitable and the user gets to visually experience what they would taste. My only complaint is that there is no skip function for people who have already gone through it, because it does take a while to get through.  

- Catherine