The Animals

I found Nacho Gil on the web, he has created a collection of animals using triangles and gradients. The are amazing, its such a simple idea and it looks amazing, almost as if someone has folded paper to look like the animal heads.

http://www.nacho-gil.com/

The heads are all symmetrical (apart from one strange looking creature), and the one above is one of my favourites. It looks like Gil uses black and a light blue/white colour as the gradient, and it works really well.

DON'T CLICK IT!!

I found a website with an interesting concept, don't click! It is a flash site where you don't need to click to navigate to different pages, just hover. Its weird and wonderful, and it made me really want to click the mouse! I did, intentionally, to see what happened. Basically they are analysing what movements you make, whether you click, and if you do, is intentional or accidental.

http://www.dontclick.it/

Have a go and see if you can resist the power of the click.

Boone Oakley

Boone Oakley is an advertising agency with a difference. Their website is actually a series of youtube videos, all linked to one another. I've seen a couple of these before, where people tell a story and you pick what you want to happen. Its different and very clever, and the simple graphic's add to its effectiveness. And the music is amusing. I think you might have to redirect to youtube.com if you want it to work properly.

Zevs

I was just doing a bit of research for dissertation when I came across an artist called Zevs. I've never heard of him (he is anonymous like Banksy, but french) but his work is pretty interesting and his website is clever! He used google as the layout, I wonder if he had to pay them to use it.

http://www.gzzglz.com/

Zevs is known for "liquidating logos", e.g. below.

He also cut out a model from a big Lavazza billboard in Berlin, and wrote above it "visual kidnapping - pay now!" His own work coined the term "visual kidnapping"- when someone steals an image from a poster.