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Christian Knopf

2nd September, 2010

So there’s a heavy element of Flash at play here – and the portfolio of work is fairly corporate, but there’s some nice touches to the web design that are worth checking out…

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Aakash Nihalani

31st August, 2010

Some cracking updates on the site of one of our favourite street artists, New York’s brilliant Aakash Nihalani…

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Benjamin Lowy

23rd August, 2010

From Haiti to Afghanistan, Iraq to Papua New Guinea prisons, news photographer Benjamin Lowy doesn’t shy away from uncompromising – often harrowing – subject matters…

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Artiva Design

13th August, 2010

Italian studio Artiva have a rather lovely portfolio, heavy in brilliant typography – but guys, you could do it all just as good – if not better – without the Flash….

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War Design

27th July, 2010

We’re struggling to see the reasoning behind the use of Flash on this Sydney based studio’s site, but it doesn’t stop there being a ruck load of lovely work within it…..

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Transformer Studio

16th July, 2010

You’ll know by now that we’re not massive fans of Flash, but look past that and the cumbersome navigation and you’ll find some beautiful work from this Moscow studio….

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Ewen Spencer

18th June, 2010

Well, it’s in Flash – but we couldn’t resist this ridiculously cool design, complete with big, fat, bold typography, for Brighton photographer, Ewen Spencer…..

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DesignStudio

7th June, 2010

The beautiful portfolio of work from this London-based studio helps us forget about it being a Flash website….

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Y-3

6th June, 2010

You’ll probably have cottoned onto our feelings towards both Flash and (grrr) ‘websites with sound’ – but the new Y-3 site does have some rather lovely interactive effects….

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INVEN.TORY

17th May, 2010

Nice slick web design for this stylish New York fashion boutique courtesy of digital agency Layerframe… shame about it being in Flash…

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Foundation Vol.2

13th May, 2010

So it’s in Flash, it goes full screen without asking, and it’s got a horribly long preloader…. yet, once loaded, it’s a visual feast to behold…

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MyORB

4th May, 2010

We fail to see the need for this site’s use of Flash, although there’s a thoroughly good portfolio of work from this New York based practice that’s hard to ignore….

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Waterlife

30th April, 2010

Really making the most of our least favourite technology, Flash, this film promo website works beautifully well on so many levels….

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Jongmin Kim

28th April, 2010

So, it’s in Flash, it’s cumbersome to navigate, and it’s likely to cause a fit… but it is rather beautiful nonetheless…

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Grip Limited

26th April, 2010

Certainly a unique approach to navigation and structure… we can’t really see this taking off, but a brave and inspiring site nonetheless….

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Drew Kelly

19th April, 2010

Startlingly atmospheric road trip photography in this portfolio…. but, did you really need to use Flash?

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Socio Design

10th April, 2010

Far from the most exciting of websites, and in Flash – grrrr – but saved by some lovely work, in particular the ‘Truth Brochure’ (pictured)….

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Adhemas Batista

8th April, 2010

Making the most of what Flash can offer a website, this Brazilian born, LA based digital artist is laden with awards… and with work of this quality it’s easy to see why.

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