Stinkdigital

Stinkdigital is an award-winning multifaceted digital studio handling everything from live-action films to phone apps, and of course site design. Originally started in London, it quickly expanded to New York, where it continued to maintain its excellent quality regarding web design and development.While most may recognize them more for their use of Flash with the "My Time is Now" Nike page, some of their outstanding work which are without Flash, far outshine it.

The CNN Ecosphere would be one of their crowning achievements, a 3-D image built on the js-canvas and linked to a thousand + sites and twitter accounts organized into digital trees on a rotating earth. Nonetheless it was built using the js canvas which, for those of you non-techies, is kind of like trying to draw the Mona Lisa in Paint. But it's not just about the technical solutions that other companies wouldn't dream of attempting, Stinkdigital's home site is in every tradional design sense a stunning experience.

The home page loads with a simple hierarchy  that isn't standard for page loads and appears to be timed. The fonts and spacing of text are elegant and not as abrasive as some of the other web based fonts. It even has a super minimal color palette, which isn't obvious at first when the background is in place, but most pages of the site use only black, white, and one other color dependent on which page of the site is being visited. They use a very simple parallax scroll on the main page to smoothly transition their sample works. The heading of each page collapses and moves with the scrollbar so visitors always know what page they're on. But most importantly, their content is displayed crisp, and there's not a bit of it that gets lost. Check out this site and their creations when you have the time.