Nuru International: Visual Essay “How Nuru Works”
Nuru International puts a typographic spin on erasing extreme poverty in this visual essay, How Nuru Works.
Brandon Lori • 14 years ago
Fantastic animated visual essay in this teaser for Waiting For Superman by Buck
Fantastic animated visual essay in this teaser for Waiting For Superman by Buck
Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
“Oh great, here comes Old Man Cone again, rambling about visual essays.” I know, I know, but I really do believe that when motion design…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
GOOD: The Hidden Cost of War
I love GOOD’s Transparency series. By combinging great writing with clean, concise visuals, GOOD consistently produces top-notch visual essays that treat viewers like intelligent beings.…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
GOOD Magazine’s Visual Essay: Oil Addiction
GOOD Magazine’s Visual Essay: Oil Addiction
Matt Lambert • 16 years ago
Airside + Demos: The Power Gap
British think-tank Demos teamed up with creative agency Airside to create “The Power Gap,” a three-minute visual essay that surveys the history of power structures…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Don’t Fail Idaho (Extended Version) by Buck
Over the last several years, Buck has made a point of creating elegantly clever PSAs for causes they believe in. For their latest visual essay,…
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Staff • 11 years ago
Jonathan Jarvis and Ray Dalio: How the Economic Machine Works
Jonathan Jarvis burst onto the scene (or at least onto Motionographer’s homepage) back in 2009, when he created an extremely helpful 10-minute animation, “The Crisis…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Framestore CFC: “Sugar Battery”
“Sugar Battery,” a new visual essay from Framestore CFC‘s design team, is a solid follow up to their previous “Hydrogen” for production company Coast. Taking…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
VFS: Perfect the way we are
Vancouver Film School alumni and faculty teamed up to create Perfectthewayweare.ca, a website and visual essay attempting to bring some of Canada’s pressing social and…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Crush: Hellmann’s “It’s Time for Real”
Nice mix of metaphor and infographics in this visual essay from Crush and Sons and Daughters’ Steve Gordan urging Canadians to eat local
Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Peppermill Berlin: “The Big Coup”
Peppermill Berlin recently created a fine visual essay for German rail company Deutsche Bahn. We’d normally Quickie this sort of thing, but the video comes…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Oil’d by Chris Harmon
Oil’d by Chris Harmon, a visual essay that reminds us of our dependence on black gold
Justin Cone • 13 years ago
Giant Ant: Men’s Health Magazine “How a Protein Becomes a Muscle”
Follow ingenious peptides through a visual essay explaining how muscle mass is created in the human body. Illustrations by the inimitable Mike McQuade, directed by…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
How Beer Goggles Work
Leftchannel busts out its traditional animation chops in “How Beer Goggles Work,” a chuckle-worthy visual essay for Men’s Health magazine.
Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Gergely Wootsch: Penny Dreadful Portraits “Dracula”
To promote Showtime’s moody new drama/horror series, Penny Dreadful, Gergely Wootsch directed this evocative visual essay about the cultural significance of Bram Stoker’s Dracula as…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
It’s a Plastic World
This depressing but educational visual essay explains the ubiquity of plastic in our oceans using an interesting low-poly microverse contained in a cube. After you’ve…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Making “The Wisdom of Pessimism”
For his directorial debut, Claudio Salas took on an ambitious challenge: a 2-minute visual essay for the philosopher Alain de Botton’s School of Life project. What began as…
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Justin Cone • 8 years ago
Process: Making the F5 Opening Titles with Block & Tackle
Over the last several years, conference openers have joined music videos, film titles and visual essays as ideal showcases for ambitious motion designers and visual…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
“My Brother,” a meditation on migrant workers
My Brother is a powerful visual essay about society and immigration, written and directed by Audrey Yeo for her SCAD Senior BFA Project.
Daniel Coutinho • 8 years ago
Marshall McLuhan, Al Jazeera and Daniel Savage
In this Motionographer Q&A, we chat with Daniel Savage about his new film for Al Jazeera, the growing momentum of visual essays and the need…
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Joe Donaldson • 7 years ago
Jonathan Jarvis and The New Mediators
Building on the success of his incredibly lucid and educational animation, “The Crisis of Credit Visualized,” designer/animator Jonathan Jarvis announced an interesting new venture, The…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Picturelab: Mint “One Trillion Dollars Visualized”
Picturelab shows us why trillion is the new billion. Based on the work by Jess Bachman of WallStats.
Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Superfad: Sprint
Superfad posted a couple new spots for Sprint that fall neatly into my category of “visual essays.” Employing a style that’s reminiscent of the data…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago