As we enter a new decade expect to see more inspiring sites like Save Whales, campaigning to protect ecosystems. There’s no ignoring the deterioration of the natural world any longer. High-end production values like these are essential when selling luxury products.Īs is to prove that the full screen video trend isn’t restricted to fashion labels and travel sites, Hazelbrook Legal uses a video of a marble ball navigating an Escher-style maze a metaphor for the legal firm’s role. Click through to the design page for more video. We loved full-screen video in 2019, and the Kalfire W53/50R site has it in spades. Packed with little details that make it stand out, like the angle of the fly-out menu, and dramatic transitions. One of the most vibrant sites of 2019 is Cher Ami. 40075 is an interactive experience designed to help you discover exciting new music by artists from Songhoy Blues to Gily Yalo. The colors and illustrations are great, and the photography is so inspiring it makes me want to book a trip right now.Ģ019 was a year of diverse musical influences. We loved this exceptional site for tourism in Western Tasmania. Variable fonts were big news in 2019 and the awesome site for Universal Sans allows you to use the technology to adapt the font for your own purposes. Its innovative approach to filling the page with repeat (not scaleable) images, is inspired.īerlin-based Japanese musician Takahisa Mitsumori released a site in 2019 that follows absolutely no trends, and presents a very minimal, almost Saville-esque set of visualizations of his work. A great example is the Flatiron Collective site that uses animated illustrations to pitch services to business.Ĩ0s style bible The Face returned from publishing oblivion in 2019, with an online blog and plans for a print magazine. Near Miss Memorials is a public safety campaign site from New Zealand that adopts a suitably sombre mood.Īs well as tons of video, we also saw a lot of vector animation in 2019. ![]() Not all sites abandoned minimalism in 2019. One of the best examples this year was the art supply store Hackem. The trend is all the more obvious when combined with dark mode. One of the biggest films of the year is designed to hark back to the culture of 50 years earlier, and its awesome promo site transports you to the time of Woodstock and the moon landing.Ģ019 is the year that we abandoned minimalist grey and adopted bright, rich colors. We even like the custom cursor, which is normally a huge no-no. More full screen video, this time from Studio Brave who wowed us in 2019 with some exceptional visuals to sell us on their portfolio. So the designers of Devialet’s site had to present depth, range, and power in a visual way. Sound on the web is one of the least-liked technologies, with most people browsing with their sound off, and those that do enable it using tinny notebook speakers. Travelshift does an exceptional job of combining a simple navigation interaction, with beautiful animated transitions, to create one of the sites of the year. It’s never easy to reinvent navigation while maintaining great usability. Illustration has been one of the biggest trends of 2019, and it is used to great effect in Nomadic Tribe, an interactive, animated short story, created to celebrate the end of 2018 and the start of 2019. There’s a lot of fullscreen video, a lot of illustration, and the emergence of a post-Brutalist maximalism trend that’s set to keep running into 2020 and beyond. Each one has been chosen either because it took a unique approach, or because it was central to a design trend that was a big hit in 2019. This column was originally published April 12, 2019.From some very tough competition, these are the 50 sites we liked the best this year. ![]() We’d like to say we at least kept it all in the family but the two are not related. What do you think of our list? Do you agree, disagree or think we left a deserving film out? Let us hear from you at or on Twitter poynter.Ĭorrection: Maureen Stapleton starred in “Reds,” not Jean Stapleton.
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