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Taste Is Your Edge: Why AQ Matters More Than Ever

In a time when creative pitches are falling flat and AI is rewriting the rules, your real edge isn’t a clever tagline, it’s your taste. Aesthetic Intelligence (AQ) is your ability to sense what resonates, articulate your value, and lead with clarity. Discover why AQ is becoming the must-have skill for creative leaders in 2025, and how to tap into it to stand out, build trust, and drive change.

Staff • 2 days ago

The Motion Awards™ Launch Final Submission Stage, and Reflect on the Journey

As The Motion Awards™ launches its final submission stage, we reflect on a global journey that’s spanned thousands of entries, countless stories, and one unwavering mission: to celebrate the craft of Motion Design. Watch the 60-second recap, and join us before August 25 for your chance to be part of what comes next.

Staff • 2 days ago

Being Queer in… Music

For Being Queer in… Music we hear from UK musician Dylan Holloway. Dylan discusses how his experience as a trans guy led him into a life in music, why being labeled as “gay” was easier for people to understand, and how lockdown changed everything.

Dylan Holloway • 2 weeks ago
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Being Queer in… Production

Over the last twenty years, my work, my sexuality, and my heritage have intertwined to inform my creativity and drive me on my mission to help serve the communities I am a part of. But it wasn’t always like that…

Kimberly Knox  • 2 weeks ago

Costumes, Props, and Layers of History: Design as a Visual Storyteller in The Gilded Age

Reconstructing a historical past on screen is no easy task. Making moving images feel increasingly authentic, whether in film or television, requires a careful orchestration of multiple creative disciplines.

Jesse Rylander • 3 weeks ago
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Being Queer in… Motion Design

For our series Being Queer in… we’ve hand-selected some incredible people to tell their stories and give us candid accounts of the queer experience in the creative industries. Being Queer in… is inspiring, raw, and dripping with authenticity. 

Ed Kevill-Davies • 3 weeks ago
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MOUVO: A Ten-Year Legacy of Shaping Culture Through Motion

“MOUVO has always aimed to be a small, intimate event, not a large and impersonal gathering. We’ve focused on creating a friendly, personal environment where everyone feels welcome, finds something meaningful, leaves inspired, and returns has always been part of our big dream for MOUVO. We believe it has come true.”

Staff • 4 weeks ago
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Interview with Alan Turing: The AI Gay Father

“Yet, whether that truly qualifies as “feeling” is another matter. Feelings, as I see them, are more than responses—they’re deeply entwined with experience, memory, and context, elements that a machine would struggle to truly comprehend without having a human’s lived experiences.”

Staff • 1 month ago
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Paul Trillo: Hacking Cinema’s Next Level

At his first student-film showcase he screened a slap-stick comedy short to stone silence, just crickets and no laughs, while the crowd reacted to arty films and tortured dramas. “Bombing that hard was liberating,” he grins. Translation: if nobody’s clapping anyway, you might as well break stuff.

Wyz Borrero • 2 months ago
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Imaginary Forces Thunderbolts* Marvel Studios Logo Reveal

MILFSHAKES DROP/ THE MILFOS

Matheus Canto / cantopia The Elchmuck Diaries

Harry Hyun Mobile Suit Gundam: ZAKU

Victor Verdugo The Waste We Leave

Studio Float The Cryptide

CTRL+X Agency SAV!OR – The Epilogue | A Short Film

Haohao Yu Impostor Syndrome

COLORTV / Jared Tay 911

Covert Lenovo Legion “Always Get Back Up”

Junjie Pan (PJ) In My Daily Life

Scholar Mercury ‘Banking Should Do More’

Coffee & TV Design Studio Sky Creative – Lions Series 2025

LOOCREATIVE – CGV Trailer

Art&Graft Coffee Run

NotReal The One Club for Creativity — Emotion Meets Design

Boris Seewald Klanglicht – sound of light

GOOSEBUMPS SADNESS – A Visual Journey Through the Emotion

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