Design Exploration

Design Exploration

Part I of II

Oh By The Way….

http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/obtw/

Maybe I’m just biased because I’m a huge Pink Floyd fan, but I think this site is a GREAT way to promote an album. This particular site is promoting the Pink Floyd Box Set which includes all 14 of their studio albums. The albums are supposed to represent mini replicas of the original vinyl albums. It includes all kinds of other goodies like a poster and photos and such as well.

I first enjoyed being able to scroll through each album while watching the rainbow flying through the sky with its Dark Side of the Moon prism-ish feeling. You can listen to decent sized clips of two or three songs on each album without clicking on anything. You can flip the album over and view the track list and listen to a few clips of your choice. You can also click on any album of your choice instead of scrolling through them all one by one.

After visiting the site for awhile I noticed that the strands of the rainbow move in sync with the beats of each song, which I think is pretty cool… I feel this site, while still sort of simple, stays true to the Pink Floyd nature – strange, trippy and well executed - which leads me to my next exploration….

Design Exploration

Part II of II

Sonacom – Agence de creation et studio

http://www.sonacom.fr/experience/

I almost turned away from this site at first because it seemed simple and uninteresting. Nothing grabbed my attention right away. As soon as I read the blip aboput each sphere being a part of the creators world I immediately tried to catch and click the first sphere I saw flying across the screen. When you click on a sphere, it bursts into pieces, followed by some weird noise or song and starts creating these random images and shapes.

Then you realize that to the left, the color sphere is there. You cacn click anywhere on the color wheel and it will give you 8 different feelings and emotions – all represented by certain shades on the wheel. Clicking on any of these colors/feelings will change the color of the sphere and add a new color to the canvas. I must have sat there for a half-an-hour the first time I went to this page creating and listening to all the sounds.

I wish that the emotions and feelings were more in depth and if he had different spheres with different phrases or sayings to choose from it would have been great too. The only downfall is that once you create this trippy piece of work and want to use the “Save” option, it said page not found – for me anyway.