Welikesmall : Redesign of Oscars.com

The Oscars are the second most watched TV event behind the Superbowl, so it was important for Welikesmall to give the stalwart award show a website that encapsulated the beauty, grace and craftsmanship it represents. The site boasts tons of content, from an interactive timeline, games, videos and more. Top that with a mobile experience, and you’re left with the most comprehensive and definitive Oscars site ever.

Aarra Agency: Welikesmall
Client: The Oscars and ABC

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rehabstudio : The Restart Page

At the restart page you can reboot your browser through a collection of vintage operating systems. The site is an answer to an invitation to collaborate with the OFFF festival and the YEAR ZERO project.

From Windows 1.0 (1985) to Amiga Workbench 2 (1986) or Apple IIGS (1991). The restart page is a tribute to the evolution of the rebooting technologies that is part of our daily life, featuring: OS2, MAC, MS, WINDOWS XP, Openstep, QNX, Apple, Workbench and Rhapsody.

At the time of this posting, there’s been almost 20k unique tweets, and over half a million views of the project.

View the site at http://www.therestartpage.com/

Aarra Agency: rehabstudio
Collaborator: Soon in Tokyo

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Aarra Insight : SilkTricky : Flash vs. HTML5

As part of a new feature from Aarra, our companies will offer their unique perspectives and opinions on emerging trends, technology and challenges that we in the industry are facing every month. For our first entry, SilkTricky gives their take on the Flash vs. HTML5 conversation. Read on for an in-depth analysis from Noah Costello, CTO of SilkTricky.

Short on time? Click here to read Noah’s guidelines on what to consider when deciding between Flash and HTML5.

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Minivegas : CNN Ecosphere

Working with Stinkdigital and HEIMAT Berlin, Minivegas created a powerful social commentary platform for CNN and the COP17 climate change conference in Durban. Any time someone tweets with the hashtag #COP17, the Ecosphere will add it to a tree representing that specific topic or discussion, making the most popular topics the biggest trees. After a few weeks of collecting tweets, the piece will be shown in Durban as an installation that renders the site as a 3D holographic image.

The entire site is built in WebGL/HTML and harnesses Minivegas’ incredibly powerful and flexible Atlantis platform.

View the site here: http://cnn-ecosphere.com/ and get a behind the scenes look at the installation here.

In addition view the full case study here.

Aarra Agency: Minivegas
Client: CNN
Collaborators: Stinkdigital/HEIMAT Berlin

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Welikesmall : Smokey Bones

Getting a chance to redesign their very own Webby award winning site for Smokey Bones was a task near and dear to WLS’ heart. The old site had all of the bells and whistles from the time period it was made in – full of Flash, easter eggs, VFX/motion and green screened videos – it set a new standard for restaurant websites.

The times have certainly changed, so for the new version of the site, WLS was still able to celebrate Smokey Bones’ signature style and humor, but this time under a lean and mean HTML5 and mobile optimized build. With its easy navigation, great content and a platform agnostic experience, WLS once again sets the bar for how restaurant websites should function.

Technologies used:

• HTML/CSS (HTML5)
• JavaScript
• Full CMS driven for both website and mobile
• Animated GIFs (Cinemagraphs)
• Geolocating
• Platform agnostic

Check out the site at: www.smokeybones.com

Aarra Agency: Welikesmall
Partner: Push
Client: Smokey Bones

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