Soulwire is a site built to greet anyone unfamiliar to Justin's work with a splash page, something I have long strayed from, but animated enough to give a truly warm introduction to his works. Animation is a central theme of everything done within his site, from the movement of his photo to the changing color of the frames when the page is changed, to the complicated experiments in his gallery. Each form of animation is a visual draw, highlighting just the right elements to encourage proper browsing of the site. Each page is also keyboard-friendly, allowing scrolling via the left-right keys. (Something that should be maybe a little more obvious on his site.) The experiments themselves however, are mind bogglingly impressive. Fully interactive and customizable physics-style engines designed explicitly for the web, content that makes all the tech guys scratch their heads, and all the designers look in awe.
You don't need a degree in animation to replicate what else makes Justin's work such an ideal site. Justin is networked. He has a twitter account, an rss blog operating out of his very site, a facebook, flickr, LinkedIn, visualize, DSPN, video, even a github and jsdo.it(something for the techies) account. On every page is the option to share his site with a number of social networking sites, and each page is enough of an innovation from the next, it's hard not to share them all. This versatility to implement easy networking capabilities on every page should be more than desirable for any designer. Plus the sheer number of accounts makes me question his daily sleep pattern. Bottom line, this is a site you must see to believe.
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