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We’re happy to announce the latest incarnation of the Barcelo Hotels website.

Rebuilt from the ground up, using our in-house Epifony CMS, the site is focused on delivering a much more simplified and intuitive user journey.

Once of the key features is the ability to filter criteria to meet the customer’s specific needs.

The new site also comes with a brand new, redeveloped, user-friendly booking engine.

As well as the hotels and bookings sections, the site comes with new areas to explore and book all the other hotel facilities available.

Barcelo Hotels has been a Pod1 client for over 6 years (previously called Paramount Hotels), with the very first website delivered in 2004, (and winning an NMA site of the week).

Website number 2 came in late 2006, and this won Travolution’s Best Hotel Website category.

We have high hopes with this latest release, but as with all new websites, the proof is in the pudding.

Check out the site here, and let us know what you think.

Love the mix of spaced out techno models, sleek colour splashes and little black fat flying bats!

Monki gives you a sneak peak into the imaginary Monki World with the new film ”The Goddess”. Explore the Monki Fields, inhabited by lace butterflies and origami birds. Climb the Ruby Mountains and visit the city of Oil and Steel. More about Monki and the collection at monkiworld.com

Gave this presentation at the Ecommerce event held by Figaro Digital on Wednesday. Lots of pictures, very few words….

It looks at new and emerging trends that are changing the ecommerce landscape. Take a look:

Areas covered include:

- Ecommerce Platform
- Crowd Commerce
- Online/Offline
- meTail
- magCommerce
- mCommerce
- Distributed Commerce
- Social Commerce

A great collaboration between photographer and art director from Czech studio Locomotiv

Big Bang Big Boom. The new stop motion wall painting from BLU.

If you haven’t already seen their amazing previous work it includes Combo and Muto.

Via Laughingsquid

… is a site to showcase cool experiments for both JavaScript and web browsers.

I particularly like…

and…

But there are loads more here

This 2 minute animation by Buck is a full of typography, iconography and info-graphics goodness.

Found via: Fubiz

Some great loop animation and illustration from designer BRANDON JAN BLOMMAERT

Pod1 NY is delighted to announce the launch of a new website for Simmons Jewelry Co.

This site marks the fist phase of a number of initiatives in working with the awesome Russel Simmons’ brands, with a fully-fledged Magento powered ecommerce site in the works right now.

Simmons Jewelry Co is quickly emerging as an industry leader and design innovator in all jewelry categories. The company holds the licenses to the Simmons Jewelry Co. Steel Collection; Kimora Lee Simmons for Hello Kitty Fine Jewelry and Watch Collections, Hello Kitty by Simmons Jewelry Co. and the Green Bracelet for the Diamond Empowerment Fund™.

We’re very happy to announce the launch of Dia, the first fully comprehensive Arabic (and English) fully transactional ecommerce website on the Magento platform.

Dia has a unique proposition in that it’s aimed at showcasing and selling middle-eastern style to the world.

The site is also the home for a major online magazine ‘Dia Magazine’, a borderless urban guide to a region that is not defined by geography as much as it is by a collective desire to broaden the frontiers of contemporary fashion, design and art. Cool.

Even though this isn’t Pod1’s first foray into the Arabic language (Chic Outlet Shopping), it’s certainly our first into Arabic ecommerce.

Watch out for further developments.

And here’s what the English version looks like: