March 12, 2010 | 11 likes | 1 comments
Basically, this site is outstanding because of the choice of technology. I would not have posted this site here on Styleboost had it been made with Flash. That is not to say it's a bad or boring design. It's not. I like it a lot. But it's also a design that is made in the spirit of a lot of traditional portfolio sites made with Flash, if you catch my drift. And I'm sure a lot of webdesigners will be interested in seeing how this has been implemented using CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Kudos to Appear.
February 25, 2010 | 7 likes | 0 comments
North Kingdom are probably most famous for their incredible Flash campaign sites. At least that's how I got to know them. Their own portfolio site, however, is built with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript with wonderful results. It's a lightweight, easily navigated portfolio type site that's a pleasure to use. It's beautiful and highly usable without being flashy (no pun intended).
February 11, 2010 | 5 likes | 0 comments
Slovenian Sara Tušar Suhadolc is a webdesigner at Innovatif who has worked on projects for clients such as Volkswagen, McDonalds, Mercator, Mobitel and many others. Sara specializes in semantic (X)HTML, handcrafted CSS, web typography, newsletter design and occasional Flash animation. I love the illustrations, the colors and all the details (e.g. the clickable monsters).
February 2, 2010 | 15 likes | 5 comments
Huh? Two Flash sites in a row. I must be crazy. Wrangler's latest campaign offering features some truly mesmerizing elements. Each photo is in fact an interactive video that may be played forward or backward. What's amazing about this is the fact that you pull on the clothes, and how this makes you feel. It just works perfectly. Via @inahill. (The downside with Flash sites like this one is, as always, the awful, constant 100% CPU usage.)
August 3, 2009 | 10 likes | 1 comments
This all Flash portfolio takes a deep dive into experimental navigation and comes out on top. I love the way you navigate through the photos/screenshots within each project. The FWA has an interview with Hello Monday's Anders Jessen.
April 29, 2009 | 9 likes | 1 comments
For ten years, Serial Cut has created fantastic visual works again and again. This time the site takes it up a notch with a fantastic, correct me if I'm wrong, jQuery impersonation of a Flashfolio. Once again, the new works are simply outstanding. Thumbs up!
April 4, 2009 | 4 likes | 1 comments
The Oslo based snowboard clothing line Whiteout has a stunning online presence. This is one of the most impressive all Flash sites I've seen in a long time. And it's filled with little easter eggs, which is nice ... as it's easter soon. E.g. try hovering over the little iPod or the watch, if you can find them. Site by Heydays while art direction was done in-house by Norrøna Sport.
April 4, 2009 | 4 likes | 0 comments
Slovenian photographer Ciril Jazbec recently launched this Flashfolio, developed by DrawingArt. It's very tight and very well done.
February 15, 2009 | 8 likes | 3 comments
Instrument is an interactive firm in Portland, Oregon with a passion for innovation to create great work. Readers of Styleboost may be aware of the fact that I am quite negative to the use of Flash in webdesign. Still, once in a while I find an all Flash site that still manages to convince me that it's got something going on despite the fact that it's an all Flash interface. This time it was the levels in the navigation that got to me, combined with the slick, green aesthetics.
January 1, 2009 | 7 likes | 9 comments
Kontain is a slick blogging platform that is unfortunately made with Flash. That is the wrong way to do it. In fact it really, really pisses me off to see a site made this way. I can't right click an image and copy it into Photoshop, I can't ctrl-click, I can't even make site open in Firefox right now (even though I used to be able to do this)... To make a long angry rant short, I can sum this up in the following: Slick and beautiful aesthetics that are ruined by using the wrong technology. UPDATE: Kontain is currently being developed in standards based XHTML/CSS with a planned release in February/March.