Interview: Motion design and the Google identity
Google's Jonathan Jarvis tells us how integral motion design was to the recent Google rebrand, why you should give users superpowers and what kind of…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Animate your way to Google
Each year, Google’s in-house agency, Google Creative Lab, combs the planet in search of promising young creatives to become “Fivers.” In Google’s own words: The…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
40 Instagram accounts you should be following
Brian Gossett shares 40 of his favorite Instagram accounts — and explains why Instagram matters more than ever for artists and designers.
Brian Gossett • 9 years ago
The Epic Doc Interview
THE EPIC DOC INTERVIEW The following is an interview with Varathit Uthaisri, (“Tu”), the Director of Google’s “The Epic Docs” animation, a DemoSlam campaign project,…
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Lauren Indovina • 14 years ago
Google’s Project Loon and How We Create the Future
Google’s latest gloriously ambitious initiative, Project Loon, is all over the news this week. This beautiful piece – directed by Google Creative Lab with Mixtape…
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Elliot Blanchard • 11 years ago
How Google uses motion design to make tangible tech
When Google introduced its Material Design visual language in the summer of 2014, it felt like a train I’d been expecting for years was finally pulling into the…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
The Epic Doc
“The Epic Doc” is a short advert directed by Varathit Uthaisri (aka “Tu”), a filmaker currently working with Google Creative Lab in NYC. A few…
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Lauren Indovina • 14 years ago
ARD & ZDF, “Caveman”
Caveman 65″ [qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/65_CAVEMAN_BOOLAB_900.mov 900 506] Teaser Catapult 15″ [qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Teaser_Catapult_boolab_900.mov 900 506] Teaser Club 15″ [qt:https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Teaser_Club_boolab_900.mov 900 506] Credits Title: “Caveman” Client: ARD and ZDF Lenght:…
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Boca Ceravolo • 15 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
Google Wallet
More gorgeous work from Buck, this time for Google Wallet. Impeccable faux analogue and brilliant transitions anchored by solid design make this a worthy addition…
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Staff • 10 years ago
Glen Keane: Duet
Disney animator Glen Keane creates a moving short film for Google's Spotlight Stories project.
Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Elastic: Arrowhead Nature’s Fix
[pro-player width=’468′ height=’300′ image=’https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/raid.jpg’ type=’video’]https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Arrowhead_Nature_s_Fix__The_Raid_.mov[/pro-player] What’s more illicit than bottling water and shipping it across state lines? Just about everything. But that didn’t stop Elastic…
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Justin Cone • 13 years ago
Interactive experiences at the human scale: Making CenterStage with Andrew Bell and Lutz Vogel
It’s rare that a single project can sum up the possibilities for the convergence of motion design and interactive experiences the way that CenterStage does. Created…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Art.com “Moving In”
Lots of nice details in this commercial for art.com. I also loved art.com’s previous spots, directed by Michael Langan, We Are Art and artCircles.
Michelle Higa Fox • 11 years ago
Google’s Superbowl Ad: Falling In Love with Search
Of all the Superbow ads, my favorite is Google’s “Parisian Love.” Simple, on-brand and surprisingly poignant. Kudos to director Aaron Duffy for his restraint and…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
1st Avenue Machine: Google Fiber
1st Avenue Machine’s Ben Steiger Levine and Aaron Duffy have created this cute spot for the introduction of Google Fiber. This “car” film takes us through the…
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Angelo Collazo • 12 years ago
Google’s Chrome Shorts
Google has just launched a YouTube page with 11 short films to promote the launch of their new web browser, Chrome. Similar to BNS’s ‘Feature…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
Ensrettet of Acne Film for Absolut Vodka: “Black” and “White”
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Brandon Lori • 15 years ago
Tronic + Brandfirst: Yahoo! Trail of Tiles
[pro-player image=”https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tronic-yahoo-still2.jpg” width=”720″ height=”400″]https://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Yahoo_TrailofTiles.mov[/pro-player] Commissioned by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners for Yahoo!. Additional details from the press release: The sequence opens with an attract mode…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
NYCGO.COM
[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/nycgo.mov 960 540] Credits Spot Title: “NYCGO.COM” Air Date: 1/21/2009 Client: NYC & Company CD: Willy Wong Art Director/Designer: Jeffrey Lai Art Director/Designer/Animator: Chris Pacetti…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Master Plan: How Google is Going to Dominate the Entire Universe
Carole Guevin over at netdiver.net brought Master Plan to my attention, a visual essay/conspiracy theory about how Google might be evil after all. Maybe I’m…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Josh Raskin for Google
[…] met the Walrus’. Personally I’d been wondering what Josh had been up to of late, so I was delighted to take delivery of his…
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Simon Robson • 12 years ago
Google: Todo a 1 Clic
Nico Chausovsky and Leo Campasso created this cute PSA warning of the dangers of sharing too much online (en español) for Google, Chicos.net and Red…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
Not To Scale: LateRooms.com “Bubbles”
[qt:http://motionograph.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/BMB-LATE105-030H264.mov 960 540] What was the brief for this project? Agency BMB approached us to make a commercial that had something of the same charm…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago