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Over the past five years, Argos Web Solutions has worked closely with Sebastian Professional to create enhanced, interactive web experiences for their unique product lines. Using powerful tools like Adobe® Flash® and PHP, Argos continues to invent innovative solutions to showcase Sebastian's products.
Tex'styles
For their Fall/Winter 2008 product line, Sebastian returned to Argos for a new home page experience.
We built an interactive set of panels with Adobe® Flash to present Sebastian's seasonal line. Using art provided by the client, we developed a story for each of the product lines with simple animation and clean transitions.
Aurical Angels
Sebastian Professional called for a new interactive homepage to market the firm's spring 2008 line.
We took the customer's concept and turned it into a full functional Flash® animation piece including four separate sections for individual product lines.
Traitors of Privacy
A past project for Sebastian Professional involved creating an animated homepage and three linked animated sub-pages to exhibit a selection of the company's Fall/Winter 2007 product line.
Starting with just a static graphical mock-up, we began composing an animation plan to bring the graphics to life. The piece starts with a short introduction scene to evoke a feeling of movement in the end-user. We used a new Flash® 8 tool to make the title glow and pop out. Each of the three models on the page link to separate sub-pages. To ensure that the links were easily discoverable, we made creative use of translucent masks. Since the image is bright to start with, we darken the panels that are not hovered over instead of highlighting the one that is.
Little Black Book
The Little Black Book is Sebastian's print-marketing piece that is distributed to their distributors and end-users. Argos took this media spread straight from the client's marketing team, and built it into an interactive flash presentation for viewing on the web.
Sebastian Originals
A cornerstone of the Sebastian Professional website, the Sebastian Originals line page showcases the company's pride in their industry. This page required no less than a full flash viewer to properly present the products. Argos created an "infinite loop" effect while maintaining small filesize and asynchronous loading through actionscript.
evokatív
Sebastian's evokatív line is one of the newest product lines to their website. It is a collection of hair styling products that emphasize sexiness and allure. Argos took their print marketing panels and created rich, vibrant, animated flash pages for each of the products in the line. This is perhaps the most dynamic element of the website, with floating text, animated transitions, and fade-in information dialogs.
Laminates
Sebastian Laminates is a line of hair-care products aimed at professional stylists. The client had a print marketing piece for the line, but their website for it was static and inconsistent. Argos took the existing print graphics and composed an animated, interactive area to showcase the product line.
