Flash Essential

Below I've come up with a showcase of some of my favorite flash sites. I have tried to break them into different categories which was difficult as they all could be eligible for multiple categories!

The Categories are;

Navigation - Creative navigation techniques

Photography - Big and beautiful photography

Typography - Big and small typo used in the designs

Design and Illustration - Clever and complex designs

Animation - Complicated animation that will blow you away

Navigation

Flash sites have all sorts of weird and wonderful types of navigation. Not always the best choice for usability but hey who cares?

Navigate around this site using your webcam.

http://www.hrp.com/

Stunning navigation techniques with seamless transitions

http://www.sheridanandco.com/

Follow the lines and get to your destination.

http://www.wallysite.com/

Navigate your way around the sky.

http://www.didmake.com/

complex navigation techniques

www.hejz.com/

Photography

I love flash sites that use big and beautiful photography. Annekin Hanneviks site being my personal favorite of the selection below, great soundtrack too!

It's Nike, when have they ever built a bad site?

http://www.nike.com/nikelab/

Beautiful background effects on the photographs.

http://www.agmint.com/

Clean and simple gallery effect.

http://www.peredodo.be/

Beautiful photography with beautiful flash. Drag your way around the photo's to get the full scope.

http://www.annikenhannevik.com/

http://www.designsul.pt/

Typography

From the big to the small, below we have some really cool use of typography, be sure to check out march of the dimes directly below.

Really interesting idea, you can click each question on the background.

http://www.marchofdimesbaby.org/

Photographic typo techniques used here.

http://www.jam3media.com/

Big bold typography gets straight to the point.

http://www.resn.co.nz/

Type your own flash text here.

http://www.typeflash.com/

Big typography with beautiful color transitions.

http://www.tanoshism.com

Design and Illustration

Some awesome illustrations below, I really wish I could draw like that. Ecodazoo is my particular favorite amongst this list.

A nice mix of animation and illustration, go ahead and open a book.

http://www.ecodazoo.com/

Grunge illustrations here with nice animation.

http://www.theseen.biz/

Brilliant animation here, really good fun.

http://www.funnydevice.com/

Check out this creative pre-loader.

http://www.oddodesign.com/

A Flash Newspaper! browse your way around.

http://www.conceptm.nl/

Animation

Sensi-soft is my particular favorite amongst this list, It probably could have made the Design and Illustration section as well it's that good.

Best of the lot in my opinion, just have a look.

http://http//www.sensisoft.pl

Incredible interface by Red Interactive, it's another world.

http://www.ff0000.com/

Build yourself a robot with Fu-Design!

http://www.fu-design.com/

Open the curtains and enjoy the experience.

http://www.ramonfauria.com/experience/

Conclusion

Some inspirational stuff there I'm sure you'll agree. This is not just a show case of creative talent it's a showcase of how powerful the flash player can be, the sky's the limit as far as flash design is concerned.

Get Involved

What's your favorite from the list above?

Seen something better? Post the link.

This post is tagged Flash CS3, Flash Design Showcase

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