Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Artist Exploration

I've chosen a site called "The World Is My Canvas"




Check it out at

http://www.theworldismycanvas.com/


I found this site to be very interesting and entertaining. To be completely honest I wasn't sure what it was at first. After exploring for quite sometime I found that it is a clever plug by Nokia to market their products GPS devices.

The site introduces an interesting and comical host 'Stavros' as he explains the concept of "position art through GPS." The site itself includes a nice navigational system bar that's clean and easy manipulate. It interaction is simple and maneuverable. It includes fun little movie clips and intros to explain GPS tracking tools and how to make funny art. It even includes a contest for people to actually use the concept. In a separate section it allows screen saver and desktop downloads of the miniature comedian. I think it has an awesome promotional aspect because it's hilarious.

A few other interesting flash based sites that I found by Nokia are as follows

http://www.nokia.com/

This is a direct link to Nokia's main website. Here you can access area support, find and purchase various products and explore features of their company.

http://ovi.nokia.com/ovi/app/ovi/flash/
This site links to info, pictures and music options within Nokia.

These sites are equally well designed, clean and easy to navigate. Their page layout is interesting because it presents a picture slideshow that is shown over multiple turning screens (each that is seperately cued with the user mouse.) It's a nice touch to the site's interactivity..

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