Jun 13, 2011

British band Kaiser Chiefs have collaborated with Wieden + Kennedy London to create a website that allows fans to design their own album cover for the new album, The Future is Medieval. Fans can also create a bespoke selection of tracks, and sell their creations. The site, kaiserchiefs.com, hosts a user-interactive interface to create unique albums and track...

May 25, 2011

Movies are made to entertain you, so movie websites should do exactly the same. The aim of a good movie website is to promote it by all possible means eg. showing movie trailers, encouraging downloads and displaying high-tech graphic information. Any good movie website should allow visitors to determine whether they want to see the movie. However, a lot of...

May 17, 2011

Being a football (or soccer) fan for many years, it’s been nice to see a growing worldwide commitment to kicking racism out of sport over the last few years. This is a nice campaign for Asics from advertising agency Babel Sao Paulo highlighting Brazil’s commitment to the campaign. Made with striker Loco Abreu it shows him wearing two different Asics...

Mar 5, 2011

This post highlights the many web designers and developers who are turning life on its side by creating horizontally scrolling websites. We’re all used to scrolling up and down websites to gather information and access links. The fixed width fits nicely on screen and all the content is on the main layer. The examples shown below flip things around and show...

Feb 8, 2011

Viral advertising describes any strategy that encourages individuals to pass on an advertising or marketing message to others, creating the potential for growth in the message’s exposure and influence. Like viruses, such strategies take advantage of rapid multiplication to explode the message to as many people as possible. A well-executed and planned viral...

Dec 22, 2010

A 404 page shows the error that you receive when you try to visit a webpage that doesn’t actually exist. When people hit a 404 page on your site you run the risk of them leaving your site unless there is something there to persuade them otherwise. That’s where you need to start thinking creatively like the clever people who built the 404 pages below. A...