Inspiration blog - by PaperNotes

Nestle Chocolate museum in Mexico

Hmmz, if I ever go to Mexico I definitely want to visit the chocolate museum! Not only because I loooove chocolate - can't help it, I'm a woman - but also because this building is super cool:

From: Thecoolhunter.net

Artwork by Dhanak Pambayun

Came across this very special work by Dhanak Pambayun from Indonesia. His website, Tragiklab.com features a lot of his work of course. Couldn't make out if I love it or find it very bizar, partly at least.

Crazy Japanese shoes: Shou Shou

Spotted these at PingMag - Shou Shou shoes, origanally worn by Japanese construction workers. Those were always created in black, but a Japanese designer has ambitions to bring this style to the sneaker freaks of this world...

David Corcoran

Check this art out, by David Corcoran, an illustrator from Dublin. View more of his work at Digitalrampage.com

 

Nicely animated site: Ciudad Zombie

Can't really read what this site is about, but Ciudadzombie.com is animated in a sophisticated way. After a tiny feast, you enter this crazy world:

It's not a very efficient way to navigate through a site, but for a site aiming to show your work and skills, I like it very much!

Depending on it's purpose, a website based on purely visuals can be very helpful and fun. Take kids for example, for them this can feel like playing a game. It's quite an 'intense' experience to visit a site like this. But if it is something you need to visit every day, that's a different ballgame. There is no way to navigate quickly, so it would be an absolute pain in the ass...

Some more Japanese packaging design

I really love the sophistication in Japanese style. Thus I really need to share these great packages, from PingMag.

Art by Andy Smith

Check out Andy Smith's art at andysmithillustration.com. Like the combination of his difficult tone and the simplicity in his style:

Dora & Diego day for fans

Okay, I don't blog a lot about my work. But this one I still wanted to share with you, because I'm very happy with the creative and animated style that came out of this one.

For Nickelodeon Netherlands we created a (micro)site to promote a special day for real Dora & Diego fans. It's taking place on 30th of September this year. Since Dora & Diego are Nick JR's most popular characters, we thought we'd create a very cute site that appeals young kids and their parents:

Take a closer look at: Nickelodeon.nl/doradiego

The biggest part of this site is created by one of our designers called Massimo, who also seemed to have the skill to build this thing in flash and html :-)

Eco-ego: very cool online concept

Making people aware of the consequences your daily behaviour has on the environment, can be done in different ways. Al Gore uses a movie, but I guess this one is a lot friendlier in explaining to how and why of it all: Eco-ego from the Japanese agency Marukin Ad.

Essentially, this is a game where you need to have your character perform actions to make things happen. Animated very nicely...

As you can see I was not doing a very good job, leaves come falling from the tree and boh the ecology and stress meters are in red (on the right).

And when my time is up, I'm confronted with the whole story and it's consequences. In a very creative way, but nevertheless bringing across the message in it's core.

PS. Thanks for the tip Vinzl!

Hamsterwereld - kidssite for supermarket

One of Hollands biggest supermarkets has launched a website called Hamsterwereld. It's ment to bond kids and their parents to the supermarket Albert Heijn.

Why I blog about this? Because they get it. At least their agency IJsfontein does. Kids love casual games! The style is funny and creative, but not annoying. And always a good one; filling out coupons to earn extra points. The top game is a 'secret' one, another thing to get kids out of their minds...

I'm curious to see how this will develop and if it wil continue for a longer period of time...