LOLA New York | A Flashy Website

A Flashy Website

Posted by Jonathan Wexler on June 09, 2009 in Design Internet

Smashing Magazine posted an article the other day about “50 Beautiful Flash Websites.” Most are gimmicky and take too long to load, but there are a select few slick ones.

The Sensisoft design agency’s site properly balances high quality motion graphics with accessibility, delivering information while telling a story. The main character is an interactive kiosk that travels through time and space on the click of a button. Beginning at “About Us” in London 1880, the kiosk warps to Moscow 1920, Chicago 1940, Paris 1970, Barcelona 2008, and finally “Contact Us” in Tokyo 2030. The image rotates in a space-bending vortex, teleporting to each new destination.

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LOLA New York is named in honor and loving memory after an abandoned, overgrown plot of land known as Lola Prentice Memorial Park. Using stolen wood from construction sites of nearby houses, a home-made skate-park rose out of nowhere within a month. It was organized, run and enforced by dozens of twelve and thirteen year olds. The park became a legendary refuge and playground for unsupervised youths. Around 1998 it became too popular and boisterous and the police decided shut it down unannounced; destroyed the ramps, dumping gravel over the park and building a police station on the grounds.

Through the designs, music, artwork, events & clothing the values of Lola Prentice Memorial Park: loyalty, freedom, creativity and camaraderie are able to live on and blossom.

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