Heliotropy

by Studio CRONICA

A charged-up website lit by a yellow animated beam explores two stories of Heliotropy’s founders. Each of the personal pages appears brimmed with draggable text, photos, videos, handwritten notes, naive illustrations, and even embedded music balanced with a mono-colored background and smooth scroll.

505

1/7

2nd place winner

Hayal & Hakikat

by Marina Meyer

The website tells a poignant story of Turkish convicts who had to be photographed with their palms on the show so the Sultan could decide whether they would live or die. As you scroll down the page, multiple centuries-old photos of people appear, flickering as if the photoshoot is still going on. The flow is sometimes interrupted by intertitles explaining one thing or another.

1/8

1st place winner

Roman Sazonov’s portfolio

By Roman Sazonov

Explore this highly interactive website on load and hover. On top of the strong typography, the above-all-pages 3D element, a custom cursor and popping animations, the designer integrated dozens of hi-res visuals.

1124

1/6

2nd place winner

Website for Wow typeface

By Carol van Waart

“Wow” is an artistic project that re-thinks typography through abstraction. The page starts with an animated 3D object that rotates and transforms as you observe it, and offers two typeface variations to switch between. Both subpages show the creation of the typeface through stories, colorful sketches, and samples.

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