Category — Websites

Detailed, glorious 3D worlds are increasing becoming easier for people to create from their imaginations. However, its been awhile since I’ve seen as rich and imaginative a world as created for Saizen Media’s website.

Saizen Media’s current site depicts a slightly moody, but magical world as a backdrop to their otherwise standard design company content. Think dark shadowy silhouettes, and moonlit hills, combined with warm lighting illuminating a rabbit in a garden. Actually, forget thinking, just see the screenshots below.

There are lots of details in the site and the sound has low-tech victorian mecha detailed controls, with this lightly unnerving version of the little girl puffing on a cigar.

Anyway, see more on Saizenmedia.com

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I don’t often check out that many websites promoting office software, but the latest from Microsoft is prompting me to rethink my surfing priorities!

Its a simple enough site, with a “Simplify your work” concept. Different sections - one for each piece of software, collectively promote and explain the new Microsoft Office 2008.

But like all good design, the site carries through the idea to all the elements. A sense of life is given through the characters that are simply depicted, but which are very well done. Animation is slick and very descriptive, giving a slightly comical, light heart feeling to the site.

Worth checking out, even if you’re not planning on getting the software..

Simplifyyourwork2008.com

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As a designer, I sometimes see nothing more indulgent in a project than being able to create your own visual world, least of all, for a global brand such as Coca Cola!

The Happiness Factory must have been one hell of a dream for the designers! A lovely, surreal flash world, which seems to be expanded from their motion graphics advert a few years ago, depicting the creation of a bottle of Cola from a vending machine.

The world is populated with lively characters with attitude, including a dancing workman, during the sites loading screens.

I will have this site (and a download of the advert) permanently bookmarked for those moments of despair, when I need a little hope and happiness!

Visit the Coca Cola Happiness Factory

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