50 Beautiful Flash Websites
Flash enabled designers and developers to deliver rich content over the browsers, creating motion, interactivity and an impressive visual experience. Good Flash-sites do not require too much bandwidth, load fast and allow for a smooth interaction; besides, beautiful Flash-based sites are Photoshop masterpieces, transporting some kind of reality and fantasy to the Flash movie.
In the showcase below we present 50 colorful, creative, interactive and beautiful Flash-based web-sites. Hopefully they will serve you as an inspiration for your future works or just entertain you on a lousy, boring Sunday.
You might also want to visit the following articles:
- 65 Excellent Flash Designs which features 65 examples of outstanding Flash-based web-sites.
- 39 Creative Flash Designs 39 hand-picked creative and colored flash websites
Drinks Sites
Martini Asti
This Martini site is a nice example of giving a fresh image of a drink. The navigation is made simple, the graphics have superior quality, it loads fast and runs smoothly. What else does a Flash site need? Note due to the law on alcoholic drinks, you need to enter an e-mail address, a password of your choice and accept their terms.
Glacéau – Vitaminwater
The vitamin water site is full of motion and small details like the top menu, with a colored wave effect, the mouse movement, the masks effects and swirls which make it great.
Bacardi – Original Mojito (currently offline)
The motion graphics and the water effects in slow motion give a unique style to this site. A fresh site, with a colored menu with a drag option, makes it functional and simple. Note: due to the law on alcoholic drinks, you need to enter an e-mail address, a password of your choice and accept their terms.
Portfolios
v5 Design
Beautiful landscape with some nice details such us the sun and butterflies. The old paper effect when opening from the menu, and the mask effect over the green plants give it a special touch.
Sensisoft
The Sensisoft site offers a nice interaction for users. The vortex effect while changing from path, the motion graphics in the background, the high quality and details of the graphics make it a great design agency site.
Mauricio Guimarães Portfolio
Mauricio portfolio is a good example of creativity. Instead of the ordinary menu, he uses a kind of parallax movieclip, where the user must interact with the stage to explore the site.
Colorchakra – Portfolio of Srinath Rangamani
A colored background with high quality graphics.
Magnivate Interactive Boutique Agency
A nice animated site. One particular feature on this site is that you need to set a character to explore the site.
e-Content Solutions
This studio portfolio starts with a nice and unusual preloader, a kind of puzzle which interacts on mouse rollover. Another kind of interaction is user’s ability to explode the balloons.
Ari´s Labs. The Digital Home of Graphic Designer Ari Hirvonen
The high quality of motion graphics, conception and the functional layout makes this site a good example of what a Flash portfolio should look like.
Edwin Murat Ganter Portfolio
A simple and creative layout. Not common, but still practical and easy to use.
Vegaone
Color effects and 3D layout on this site are remarkable. However, it could be improved with some motion graphics and page transition effects.
Infinit Colours
This site gives the user the option to change the background between beautiful high quality designs. The menu is also a creative alternative to deliver some interactivity.
Infographiste Indépendant
Another creative portfolio, full of interactivity and motion graphics. The background image is great.
Sonacom
A great Generative Art example which requires the user to interact with the stage.
CloudRaker
On this site you can use the character to move along. The graphic element is great and the concept it unusual.
Prismgirl
A great creative portfolio, using an unusual layout.
Agence Secondlife
At a first glance this site needs the user to interact with it in order to move forward. Rather than the graphics quality, this site creates a 3D globe, full of color which is a creative option to move around the site.
Insurance
Privado Seguros (currently offline)
The Privado Seguros site has wonderful graphics, with many rich details. A good example to get inspired from.
Let Your Worries Go
Another parallax site, with beautiful graphics, with funny interactions like dragging the characters – each of them represents one specific topic.
Projects
Sometimes designers and developers create awesome works, but these works never go online, because the client hasn’t chosen them. The following projects are great examples which will inspire you for sure on your future projects.
Imagine Air – Flash Site School project
Project: Coca-Cola Light – Tastes of the World
Games or Games Related
Get the Glass
This site is a 3D board game, with animated characters, full of action. The graphics, animations, concept are all awesome.
BioShock
A Playstation game related, this site offers a nice navigation through the site, and has cool details like the tv and cinema camera. The graphics are another great aspect of this site.
Commercial
Bebiko
A nice colored design, with motion graphics and integrated video content.
Nokia Trends Lab
This site is full of color which changes depending on the path the user has chosen. You can see some great details like the video images in the bubbles. Motion, multimedia content and color define this site.
Hewlett-Packard – Wake up your feelings with the power of touch
Another site with great graphics and an extraordinary concept. The navigation is just remarkable. A good place to get inspired.
Theologos House of Jewellery
The simplicity of the site navigation and the beauty of flowers are hard to overlook.
Real Casual
Another site with great graphics and a nice concept.
Pirogov
A simple site, with great details, like the light at the left, the sea and the castle at the right.
White Gold
Do you like music? And interact with a movie-clip? Well, here you are able to have both. Great graphics, and the video integration is impressive.
Pantagonia
Another nice and interactive interface example.
Infinite OZ | Tin Man | SCIFI.COM
The graphics are exceptional, and the continuous movement between scenes is great.
Zube
A simple layout with quality graphics and great transitions.
Häagen-Dazs – Help the Honey Bees
Another example of a great user interactivity, with great graphics.
Environment
GE | Plug Into the Smart Grid
Maybe the majority of you have heard about this site, and even visited it due to the Augment Reality feature. But I still wanted to feature it, due to the high quality of the graphics, concept and design.
DirectGov – Act On CO2 Calculator
Another environment-related site, with an educational and informational purpose. You will find nice graphics, continuous motion and an easy navigation. A good example of delivering global topics.
Michelle
July 6th, 2009 3:47 amNot so long ago I was pretty skeptical about flash websites, but now I think flash has been taken to a level where it’s beautiful and user-friendly. I really liked the collection and the majority of websites I clicked on – didn’t load long at all. Flash is cool, and I dare to assume it’ll become even better soon!
e11world
July 7th, 2009 3:50 pmI think people who don’t like flash are mostly people who don’t know how to use it well. No flash, no fun on internet. Flash is becoming more searchable no js library can ever achieve what flash can do in the same ease and speed. AND it still won’t look as good.
People are finding ways to embed fonts on sites and it hasn’t been easy, but with flash it’s super easy. I
likeLOVE flash but still use XHTML & CSS and this is the way it will be for everyone out there. Sooner or later, you’ll need to use both.SparkyFlash
July 9th, 2009 10:40 pmGreat collection! Truly creative artists!
While some may argue Flash is great for creating websites. When optimized correctly using AS 3.0, its a joy to load and view. I love Flash because it provides so much space to have fun and play with all the elements, and with new AS 3.0 you can implement almost any idea you can imagine.
ganesh
July 18th, 2009 10:59 pmsuper it toppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp site are ther here
i love it this stuff
srinivas k
August 9th, 2009 9:27 pmI think flash website give you a new way of experience a website
thaDude
September 4th, 2009 6:32 amFlash can do it all, and with FLEX basically HTML/CSS sites will become mundane relics.
Some big companies not interested in marketing are adopting Flex RIGHT now, I’m talking about big time finance companies who want to deliver beautiful highly interactive charts within online applications.
People who down Flash DON’T KNOW HOW TO USE IT, don’t be scared, buy a book, learn, grow, accept.
bob
November 11th, 2009 1:45 amthats great :)
Flash Moto
December 10th, 2009 6:42 amAnd though Flash websites are considered to be slow and difficult to maintain, they are more impressive, interactive and dynamic that static HTML pages.
I love the animation and all these flash effects.
Thanks for the collection
Madhu
December 12th, 2009 11:55 amThanks , I like all of the flash sites and i am also learning to use flash but some guys tell me not to learn flash and learn javascript and ajax
WebDev123
December 18th, 2009 5:54 amGreat set of examples! Very inspirational! Thank you!
There seems to be a lot of Flash haters out there. It’s not Flash’s fault guys,… it’s the developers who misuse it and abuse it (or just don’t understand how to properly use it – and there are a lot of examples of that). Please don’t bash Flash just because some Flash developers prefer showing off their skills instead of providing a friendly user interface. Flash has it’s place. As for those who think Flash is becoming obsolete…. yeah, right… that’s why YouTube is going out of business!
AJAX is alright but Javascript has it’s problems too and if people have JavaScript disabled, then you’re screwed (just as if people have the Flash player disabled/not installed). Actually, AJAX has a lot of the same problems as Flash does when it comes to SEO, back button, bookmarks, etc., but both have their own way of going about it. AJAX is meant more for web applications, but I would still prefer using Flex as it saves tons of development time and is cross browser compatible! (Ever tried making an HTML/CSS website compatible with IE6? – which surprisingly is still a whole lot of users out there!).
In the end, Flash and AJAX are just two faces of the same coin. Combined, they can revolutionize the web as we know it. Don’t believe me?… then check out YouTube as one of many examples.
Chris Raymond
January 7th, 2010 7:58 amFlash is a wonderful tool, when used for a purpose for which it is the best suited: games, interactivity for a PURPOSE, not just to have visitor click around.
I went to Lilia’s Planet, and I have a high-speed connection. Took quite long to load, and then it took me a few seconds to realize this is a photographer’s site, not an illustrator’s. I found the whole Flash-based interface annoying, After “flying” around the globe once, I was tired of the whole thing and frankly didn’t wish to explore this person’s photography. The visual premise could have been executed in xhtml/css and jquery, and then the focus could be on the PHOTOGRAPHY and not the annoying interface.
Felt the same at the House of Jewellery site. Pointless use of my time to see a Flash movie with flowers. This is not a florist’s site, it’s jewelry. I never stuck around to see the jewelry.
scott
January 21st, 2010 7:47 amYes, these are really great looking sites, I find that none of them work in the ‘new’ form of technology such as iPhone and Blackberry and iPod and all of the mini notebooks which are the rage and fad right now. Along with that, the problems of always getting people to upgrade to the latest flash player is sometimes troublesome and many people get irritated So, just plain old basic HTML seems always a safe and nice choice. Plus I find a lot of people think of FLASH as just a commercial.
Thanks for putting this list of nicely designed sites together..
-scott
Olesya
February 3rd, 2010 7:00 amFew months ago I saw a flash website which was very cool and inspiring, and now I cant find it! May be some of you saw it and can give me a link? the only thing i remember is that it was flash website and for navigation on home page the guy had the animation of his head (does it make any sense?) like when you made mouse over some buttons his head was turning towards it. He had there his blog, photos and portfolio as well.
Please if you know it, can you give me a link
Thanks
Garbage
February 7th, 2010 5:02 pmSome of these websites take ages to load and as a user are hard to navigate. They suck hard.
joe
February 21st, 2010 3:26 amsadly, flash sites are bad for SEO!!
kangzin
March 9th, 2010 12:49 amThe Great posts !!!
I like all of them, but the flash site’s bad for SEO
reva
May 31st, 2010 10:35 pmnice picture:)
Ryan
June 12th, 2010 10:54 amAwesome list! best list I’ve seen so far! Thanks!
jd
July 12th, 2010 12:06 amit’s very very amazing…
ulises
September 7th, 2010 7:21 ammuy bueno diseño
xed
September 12th, 2010 10:08 pmnice collections!
iman ghazizadeh
September 14th, 2010 10:31 amVery very good, I love your website :)
iman ghazizadeh
Mike
October 20th, 2010 6:02 pmI stopped looking at the sites in the list when I got to the first site’s third annoying flash page. I haven’t even seen what the site is trying to do yet. So I do hope the other 49 are better than the first one. But scrolling through, I have never visited a single site that is listed here in 30 years of using computers. It seems some people have different priorities when it comes to web design.
“Websites that force users to sit through sequences with nothing to do will be boring and pacifying, regardless of how cool they look.” – Nielsen, 10-29-2000
mankis
October 28th, 2010 11:14 amGreat post. There are whole new worlds created in Flash websites.
doshine
December 8th, 2010 10:20 pmAwesome………….
kahil
February 3rd, 2011 10:07 amhi i am very interested in one of this site who i can contact
there are no mails and contact information on them
please please this is urgent
coud somebody tell me
thanks
domanokz
May 7th, 2011 11:59 amCan you bookmark a page of a Flash Website?
anonymous
June 2nd, 2011 11:24 amUhm, dude? A site that doesn’t use links and forces exploration isn’t original. This idea has been around for years, and people actually don’t like it.
Nonoy
June 9th, 2011 9:04 pmI love this list. Very beautiful websites. Thanks for this.
sajin
July 14th, 2011 8:56 amreally amazing flash templates
sajin
July 14th, 2011 9:04 amis there any problem if i copy this templates to my blogspot…
plz reply
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Ani
July 14th, 2011 10:07 pmWow ! Simply Stunning.
yai panji
September 20th, 2011 7:08 pmcan you help my project? i must maker flash presentation atractif… how much money?
nick
October 9th, 2011 10:51 amseriously guys if u hate to wait and don’t like flash,why are you even on this page?get your ass out of this post. cant you just see title??its meant for flash websites,if you cant accept piece of art,go shake your drums in your boring, AJAX blah blah blah…we don;t need your fucking negative comment here..shooo you haters
BSD
October 17th, 2011 8:22 pmGreat work. keep it up
Junaid
May 9th, 2012 7:23 amPeople who dont want to work on HTML5 and CSS3, These people dont want to move forward. Even Adobe Flash has stopped making Flash animated softwares and they also said that they will work on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript and will dedicate their efforts on this new technology. Surely, There is a lot to be created/coded/make in HTML5 and make it browser compatible.
I hope HTML5, CSS and JavaScript will take over Flash and by the way it has taken over Flash 70 to 80%.