Inspirations April/May 2018

The designers, coders and consultants at Hinderling Volkart discover remarkable, surprising and clever websites on a daily basis. Webtrends. Here’s a selection of highlights that made it into our internal “Inspiration” channel.

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Hinderling Volkart
4 min readMay 30, 2018

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Enter the World Exposition

Tone of voice, interactions, mobile friendly, tapping into digital culture… pretty cool. (Nicolas Combes, Design)

springsummer.gucci.com

Copyright: Gucci / Illustrations by Ignasi Monreal

AwayTab

Browser Extension — a new place to travel to in every new tab you open. Beautiful images and the cheapest flights from your area. (Sophie Murbach, Consulting)

awaytab.com

Copyright: Awaytab | Credits: Marcel van Remmerden

Google Arts & Culture Experiments

Two mind-blowing Google Arts experiments… powered by some heavy machine-learning. (Nicolas Combes, Design)

Art Palette

Copyright: Google | Credits: Simon Doury & Etienne Ferrier

LIFE Tags

Copyright: Google | Credits: Gaël Hugo

Remaking Famous Logos

Famous logos redesigned to teach us which font they use. (Michael Hinderling, Creative Direction)

adweek.com

Copyright: Adweek | Credits: David Greiner

The Disconnect: Issue One

An offline-only magazine of commentary, fiction, and poetry. (Nicolas Combes, Design)

thedisconnect.co

Copyright/Credits: The Disconnect

Bagan: Discover a heritage site at risk

Nice WebGL experience:

artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/bagan

Copyright: Google | Credits: CyArk

Global Fishing Watch

An overview of how our oceans are sadly overfished! Each registered fish cutter is displayed in the world and by click you can follow its route over the last days, weeks, months, etc.. Really exciting! (Damiano Casella, Consulting)

Global Fishing Watch | Sustainability through Transparency

Copyright: Global Fishing Watch

We believe in the power of an engaged and empowered public

Interactive storytelling! (Raphael Kunz, Design)

Outrider

Copyright: Outrider Foundation

Célia Lopez — Interactive & 3D designer

The mixture between 3D and 2D is particularly well made. The animation adds such an immersive feeling. A great use of WebGL. (Adonis Bou Chakra, Code)

Célia Lopez

Copyright/Credits: Célia Lopez

Isle of Dogs

Cool little mobile only experience for the movie Isle of Dogs by watson DG. (Nicolas Combes, Design)

Daily Scraps — Isle of Dogs

Copyright: Daily Scraps | Credits: Watson DG

Ideas for Proximity Feedback with Progressive Hover Effects

Fun examples of close hover effects. (Milo Peter, Design)

Codrops

Copyright/Credits: Codrops

#Art4GlobalGoals — 17 Issues Interpreted by Leon Löwentraut in His Art

Textures, typography, interaction, message… (Nicolas Combes, Design)

art4globalgoals.com

Copyright: Art4GlobalGoals | Credits: denkwerk

World Draw

A conveying experiment, mixing cutting edge technologies (predictive neural network, webGL), hardware performance and a cute art direction! (Yassine Bakiri, Code)

World Draw

Copyright: Google | Credits: Active Theory, Plan8 Music

A is for Albert

Cute little website, still love splitscreen layouts. (Stephan Walter, Design)

aisforalbert.com

Copyright/Credits: Studio Lovelock

Daily CSS Design

Very ambitious. (Milo Peter, Design)

dailycssdesign.com

Copyright/Credits: Daily CSS Design

Brutalism

Brutalism websites often cross my browsing, here are two nice examples. (Josefa Holland-Merten, Design)

Aristide Benoist

Copyright/Credits: Aristide Benoist

Cuchillo

Copyright/Credits: Cuchillo

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