sometimes i come across #multimedia #art and #design projects that blow me away so completely that i end up spending the rest of the day just playing with them.

Ceremony of Innocence (1997) tells the story of two lonely strangers who fall in love through a series of postcards... all based on the novel Griffin and Sabine by nick bantock.

each postcard is lavishly decorated and animated. but what blew me away was the tactile, playful interactivity. sometimes postcards are pried apart, caressed, or tortured into opening... all with the mouse cursor.

voice acting by Isabella Rosselini, Paul McGann and Ben Kingsley. the project won two BAFTAs in its day.

i'm offended that we have nothing today that compares with this multimedia experience. all made in #macromedia director by Real World Multimedia.

creative director Alex Mayhew has some background on the project here:
https://www.alexmayhew.com/portfolio-item/ceremony-of-innocence/

🙏 thank you @MossRC for the tip about this absolute gem

having fun documenting the mid- #90s and early #2000s interactive #multimedia #design movement

today's archival project is the companion #cdrom for the book "In Your Face: The Best of Interactive interface Design". it is full of dozens of #macromedia Director projectors highlighting award-winning websites, cd-roms, floppies and kiosks of the era.

most of the designs are fun, goofy and tactile

if you're feeling wistful for #skeuomorphic design, this is the cheapest time travel device money can buy 😅

disc image here - windows/mac:
https://archive.org/details/in_your_face_disc

Years before Rockstar's Bully, in Italy we had Tabboz Simulator. A free game released to great success in 1997, it was a simple Tamagotchi-like "white trash" simulator where you could get into fights with metalheads, get a girlfriend, modify your scooter and buy loads of furry clothes.

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I don't care what anyone says, this is the peak era of graphics in games