Animated Abstract Book Covers

Animated Abstract Book Covers

This is a pretty amazing fusion of graphic design and motion graphics. German designer & animator or Henning M. Lederer puts historic minimalistic cover designs into motion. In many ways it reminds me somewhat of Oskar Fischinger's pioneering abstract...

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Holiday Sweater Video

As we get a little closer to the holiday season, thought I'd share this video that I put together for the Port of Seattle for the holidays. By taking Jake Bartlett's amazing skill share class I learned the technique...

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Pretty cool visualization of every day actions

I saw this on the great site Flowing Data, and it's too good not to share.  The physics of everyday actions are beautifully and humorously visualized by Daihei Shibata in the short film Unendurable Line. The graphs and music...

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Hypnotic Film… Dubai Flow Motion

Hypnotic Film… Dubai Flow Motion

This is pretty amazing. Very hypnotic, watch it over and over again, it's well worth it. Dubai Flow Motion in 4K - A Rob Whitworth Film  

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James Bond titles for the Empire Strikes Back

James Bond titles for the Empire Strikes Back

Now this is really cool! Interactive artist Kurt Rauffer created this for his thesis and I sure hope he got an A because this is one of the most amazing things I've seen in a while. The Empire Strikes...

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Happy Birthday Saul Bass!

Happy 93rd birthday to the late great Saul Bass!

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Great Title Sequence… Anatomy of a Murder by Saul Bass

Saul Bass was a great and inspirational artist. He's a personal hero of mine, here is his classic intro to the film Anatomy of a Murder by Otto Preminger. In fact probably better than the film itself! If you're interested...

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Cool Stop Motion Animation Choreography for Plastic Army Men

This is totally awesome! Amazing stop motion animation... "Choreography for Plastic Army Men" by David Fain. An animated music video I created to an instrumental track by the band "Pink Martini". Choreography for Plastic Army Men from David Fain...

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Five Great Short Films from Jeremiah Warren

As a history buff, an information junkie and fan of animation and motion graphics I love the amazing work of the super creative Jeremiah Warren. Check them all out, they are insanely great. A Short History of the Modern Calendar 2011...

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Mars Mission 2025 After Effects Experiment

I thought I'd share an experiment with that I created today with After Effects, PhotoShop, Premiere Pro and Soundbooth. You could say I used lots of tools in my Adobe toolbox today! First, I took a photo from iStockphoto and...

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Digital Ephemera for Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Another Wednes­day has rolled around, so here’s my weekly col­lec­tion of inter­est­ing dig­i­tal ephemera I’ve found pok­ing around the vast Inter­net waste­land. Think of me as your guide through the eclec­tic dig­i­tal desert… Today's Menu Art & Design Motion Graphics & Video Marketing Social Media Something Cool Something...

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Great Design! EF: Live the Language

If you like good clean design and fantastic video work, check out the great campaign "Live the Language" for the company EF Inter­na­tional Lan­guage Cen­ters, which is, according to their website, ...is the world’s largest privately held education company that...

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