Lacoste Lab is meant to bridge the gap between the brands historical roots and its future. Included are some perfect designed, mostly white, sports pieces including a surf board, roller skates, boomerangs, swimsuits and this awesome bike. The retail price of this beauty will be € 2.300.
Dutch graphic design agency Machine, previously known as DEPT, is famous for their cutting edge illustrations, designs, VJ performances, their book ‘Designed by Machine‘ and exhibitions worldwide. They just launched a new website with an impressive archive of the last 15 years of their designs, plus new work.
Brrr.. the weather is getting cold. Perfect timing for my friends at Achtung! to launch their Brrr-radar Facebook app. It monitors the latest weather info, so you are able to spot friends living in the coldest spots in The Netherlands – and send them a Chocomel hot chocolate package, to drink and warm up by the fire..
Again I am part of the Favourite Website Awards year jury, happy to share the winners with you: Site of the Year for Intel’s ‘The Museum of Me‘. My personal favorite of last year’s best became winner of the People’s Choice Award, ‘3 Dreams Of Black‘, an interactive world loaded with style, a Google Chrome site filled with great graphics.
Check out this one-page scrolling infographic website made by Linda Dong. Lovely concept and lovely illustrations to explain the dangers of hydraulic fracturing.
Freunde von Freunden is a german online interview magazine that just released a book which is a compilation of the homes and working environments of the featured creatives. The site also offers video portraits like the recent one about the Boros residence – a WWII air raid shelter in central Berlin. FvF even offers a bit of music.
‘Nederland van Boven’ (’Netherlands from Above’) is an interesting crossmedia project by Dutch broadcaster VPRO. Helicopters and zeppelins (!) equipped with HD Cineflex cameras filmed different aspects of life in Holland from above. The show is accomplished by an interactive map which is updated weekly. (all links in Dutch)
It’s December and you run around town to get all the presents. Ofcourse buying online is a good option but if you do get out and about plus you happen to live in Amsterdam than this handy mobile site is a must. Be antisocial and avoid the shopping crowds. See it as a Christmas gift from the friendly folks at THEY.
Scroll through 400 years of Dutch maritime history in this HTML5 site from OBA/CCCP/SuperHeroes for the reopening of the Dutch Maritime Museum. (It’s in Dutch but as it’s HTML you can Google translate it.)
There is a sollution for those moments you can’t think of any other songs to match your mood: Lazify. Lazify is powered by Last.fm and Spotify and let you generate a Spotify Playlist based on related tracks. Just enter your favorite artist and song, choose the amount of songs you want to listen to and press play.
The people behind Slavery Footprint would like to create some awareness while using some scrolling hipness on their homepage. Their survey on the other hand is raising the bar for HTML/JS driven web experiences to a whole other level though. The outcome is not as nice though.
I’m happy to share the all tan everything website from graphic artist and friend Baster. Although he tries so hard to appear in black and white, he’s actually quite a colourful character. And a joy to work with.
I finally have a website and updated portfolio. Designed by me, built by the wonderful people at Fetch! It’s a full-Flash site, designed as highly functional Portfolioviewer3000. Feel free to download desktop- or iphone-optimised versions of my work directly via my site, or share your favorite project on Facebook or Twitter. More coming soon.
Like Typography? Check the new We Love Typography website by John Boardley & Kari Pätilä. Lovely way of browsing and more than enough to get you inspired.
Kern Type is a kerning game and the mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to typographer’s solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it.
This is another way to use the Facebook Like box. Let’s settle this once and for all..
To promote the Philips audio range, Tribal DDB Amsterdam launched an interactive experience featuring the Dutch Metropole Orchestra. Single out one of the 51 individual musicians to hear every detail..
This Danish campaign shows some recognizable moments on an average night out. On mouse over, a second video layer shows the same situations, but when way drunk. Clear message brought in a fun way.
Sanne Wijbenga recently joined Fontanel as a guest editor. It’s so recent I can’t find him on the About page. He posted about the fine portfolio by Rejane Dal Bello. She’s a Senior Designer at Studio Dumbar, as well as a member of Post St Joost Academy, where she teaches Graphic Design and Creative Process.
We can somewhat say topical Tumblr’s are the new viral video’s. Based on a funny truth or painful insight they can stir up quite some commotion. Cheap laughs, but hey, cheap laughs are laughs too.
All is not lost is the latest video by OK GO together with Pilobolus. With the guys of Google they created the Video Dance Messenger. It’s best watched in Chrome.
You see more and more of it these days, scrolling in HTML to create parallax effects. The New Zealand site is one of the more innovative examples, but there are many more. Some nice examples have been collected here, but my favourite has to be this one from Nike.
If there where a prize for best official tourism website, New Zealand would make a good chance winning it. The website of the New Zealand 100% Pure campaign looks amazing and the information seems very complete. And the best part comes when you scroll down! (Thanks to Ruben for the tip)
You might have read a while ago about our first feature film Rabat. It will be released on the 9th of June in Holland and on the 15th of June in Belgium. But from now on, you can race to Rabat yourself, thanks to the game we developed in collaboration with Vodafone BlackBerry, Hagens PR and Festina Lente.
The Burning House is a great collection of pictures with the stuff people would take if their house was burning. If your house was burning, what would you take with you?
To celebrate their 200th birthay the Dutch insurance company Achmea returns to their roots; the little village of Achlum. They asked us to design and illustrate their website and all other online components. Since it’s a Dutch brand we created a super Dutch design and utilized the buildings surroundings of the cosy village.
Behance launched a new service which could be the big competitor to Cargo and ViewBook. It’s called ProSite and you can use it to build a pro portfolio site that syncs with your projects from your Behance portfolio without ads or branding, according to this introduction video. Check out examples, like the one from Marius Roosendaal.