TBWA\COMPACT are a niche French agency that handle campaigns with smaller budgets. Their new site is … well its just such a fun idea! This site is what you get when you just want to have fun with Flash. There are so many little things that make this site classic. Some of my favourite ones are: When you click “les compactants” (contacts I think :P) you see the staff running around France. Clicking on them brings up their personal bio’s.

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I stumbled across the new French site for Alpha Romeo’s new 159. Man what an amazing site. When you arrive you are greeted by the car’s key. Hovering over it emits a glow from the key, symbolizing the fact that you are about to enter something special.

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Nitro Group are focused on bridging the global reach market. If you need something launched around the world, they are the people to help you achieve your results. What I like about their site’s design is that it gives you the impression of flying through their work… or not being bound by the ‘2D’ aspect of the screen.

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Ah, a good old music site. The new Pink Floyd box set “Oh, By The Way” is out, and this site is there to give you a taste of all the albums that are in the box set. What I find great about this site is the minimalism of it. You have the prism of light, from the Dark Side of the Moon album, which has been turned into a visual equalizer for the song samples that are randomly played from albums in the set.

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Cirque du Soleil is the legendary performance circus, and has a fittingly legendary website. I haven’t come across a menu that has grabbed me as much as this one. I suppose its loosely based on the menu that Apple uses for their iTunes album selection on the iPhone (well that is the 1st place that I remember seeing something like this) but this is a very well revamped version of it. The menu loads for the casting area of the site, where people who are interested in joining the show can find their niche. It breaks down the acts to 8 categories, and as you move your mouse over them, the others zoom/blur out of the foreground and the selected one will ‘evolve’ into the show time version of that niche.

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I love sites that make me chuckle…and Hungry Suitcase is one of them. This clever marketing site, for Royal Caribbean, had me in stitches. Basically the site is centered around your suitcase that is wanting to go on vacation with you. But where this site is very well done is that instead of searching for a vacation destination via normal methods…you ‘feed’ your suitcase with things that you would like to do while there. Once you have given it enough to decide, it tells you where (according to your selection) he thinks that you should go…with a song number that will crack you up.

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FIFTYEIGHT, is a 3D design house based in Frankfurt. They are some very tallented, young designers with an eye for fun and detail. Their mascot called Cannics, is amazingly rendered in Flash Alpha Channels so he (well I think its a he?) is totally unaware of what you are viewing/doing on the site…and just carries on doing his own thing. This is the reason that I have decided to post this site. If you liked the “spider” animation on the M-PV site you’ll love this…

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Yeigo has the tag line “now you too can talk for FREE”…which is carried out further via their site. Let me explain. By using Open Source software for their site design, (ie the Joomla CMS) Yeigo have kept the costing of the CMS down and have had more time to concentrate on the design of the site.

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littledeviant.info is a site used to punt the new Toyota Scion. They have had a really interesting flash animation/game to get across the “urban-edginess” of their new product. I think they have really hit this right. With liberal uses of the “XD” smiley and the “sheep-people” the site has an edginess that helps pull of the marketing for this small car.

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firstborn is a design house based in the States, who have come up with a great idea for their new menu system that uses the “style” of tagclouds from the Web2.0 revolution.

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