ARTIST/DESIGNERS - bascule

The corporate home for Tokyo-based web studio Bascule Inc you’ll see the site ‘exhibits charming cultural contrast with western designs’ (webdesigner, 2011). The page is very long and feels like a blog with paragraphs of text broken up by little flash animations and bright vibrant images. “Our mission is to promise high-quality user experience to people who visit our websites,” says the company’s PDF brochure. “We aim to provide unique and sophisticated communication design, leaping over the traditional paradigm of web creation.” The website produces unique illustrations with vivid and extravagant scenarios. The feature that I found most appealing was a very amazing animation. If you scroll right to the bottom of the homepage there is a small creature with a jar. If you click the jar it sucks the entire website into it. This looks and works very well with such attention to detail in this very different animation. The only down side was the long loading to enter the site due to the translation from Japanese to English.
Here are a few images from the home page.

www.bascule.co.jp

The image below doesnt done the website justice. If you go on the website you will see how interactive the webpage is.