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- prophetone0
amen
- prophetone0
pass the mashed potatas
- Continuity0
There are a few shops that were awesome, and then totally lost the plot.
Lost Boys — back when they still had their cactus logo and only had their office in Amsterdam — were one of them. Then something about Framfab (which were also cool) and hey presto, we have boring old LBI cranking out boring old stuff.
Meh.
- Thankfully, North Kingdom still silently hang on to awesomeness.Continuity
- chrisRG0
Chrome is the new Flash
You just need to make clients accept that nice stuff will only work on it.
Also you can always make an App.
- instrmntl0
It's amazing how slow and shitty animated gifts play on an iPad in the animated gifts thread. It can't handle them all. This is the platform that people now want sites delivered on.
- EXACTLY! Why did those Flash pussies let one stupid device stop them from developing??????monospaced
- utopian0
The "ME" generation has finally caught up to web design!
- GeorgesII0
I went through their showcase and they still got solid work,
reading their project synopsis, you see that they are slowly updating their work to html5,ps: site's too dark
- webazoot0
As an end user I can only think of half a dozen times a flash website I was using actually warranted the use of flash or made the site more entertaining or 'engaging'. Generally they were just a hindrance to finding the information you wanted to get to.
- fate0
intelliboy, you sound truly uninformed in this thread.
Companies used to try pulling off campaigns on the web. We have so much more investment in digital now, but the work is lame and nowhere near as creative/cool as it used to be.
Back in 2000-2007, you would see crazy, beautiful stuff from BMW, Diesel, Absolut, Nike....they used the web a place to experiment with their brands.
Nike's Art of Speed
"An extension of the acclaimed nikelab.com, the Nike Art of Speed site presented 15 artists’ renderings of speed. Inspired by the spaceship-like environment of Nike Lab, the gallery guided visitors through a tunnel where they were greeted with an interactive trailer showing all the speed-inspired films. A virtual planetarium showcased the 15 artists’ films on floating movie screens and provided details about their creation. Nike Art of Speed became a destination for people looking to get inspired by art and performance."- Yep, it was an explosion of talent and creativity. Now not so much :( its fucking heartbreaking.chossy
- fate0
Webazoot, that kind of attitude is turning the web into a digital version of the Yellow Pages.
There *is* a place websites that function as art & entertainment.
Not everyone is a rat in a maze trying to find the piece of cheese the quickest.
- fate0
- utopian0
Boz Bump!
- fate0
Just a few more high-profile brands & campaigns from the past:
Lexus Minority Report
Donnie Darko
Xbox live experience
Vodafone Future Visions
DIESEL
Sony's "The Third Place" for PS2And I just looked up another one of my favorites: The beautiful and lush "Forests Forever" site put together by Fuji Film. What a shame to lose that site.
- utopian0
The interwebs in general, has become all about replication and the regurgitation of everyone else's... lazy, boring, replicated, regurgitated shit.
- fate0
Absolut always did some incredible campaigns on the web:
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a1.jpg">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a2.jpg">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a3.jpg">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a4b.jpg">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a4c.gif">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a4d.jpg"><img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a4.png">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a5.JPG">
<img src="http://www.evanburke.com/a/a6.png">
- ernexbcn0
Flash still lives... on the 20 PCs Boz has at home.
- fate0
- reanimate0
What's stopping people from creating Flash sites today?
If you believe in it that much, sell the client on a Flash site and a smaller alternate site aimed at mobile.
There is also no reason for the template-like WordPress look of many sites, other than the fact that it's what everyone else is doing.
I still say this has more to do with trends (which most people follow mindlessly) than any technological barrier.
- fate0
DIESEL always had some wild sites. This one is style live, from HiRes