A Little Fuel for the Road
I’m in the middle of a five-day road trip from Cupertino to Savannah, burning up countless gallons of fossil fuel. How appropriate, then, that I…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Danny Yount and Prologue Films: The Invasion
Danny Yount has been directing top-notch title sequences for a while now. Perhaps his best-known effort was the opening for the Emmy Award-winning Six Feet…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
The Kingdom Main Titles
The movie’s getting lukewarm reviews, but the opening credits for The Kingdom function as an effective prologue to the film. I hate to beat a…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
Black / White
The Sound of Color is five original songs each based on a specific color and videos created for those songs. The stand-out piece is definitely…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 17 years ago
Two diverse spots, one diverse dude, Daniel Garcia
Everything a music video should be in my opinion is beautiful and loosely narrative. If it does any job at all of revealing the zeitgeist…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Framestore: Monster “Stork”
I’m on a bit of a posting spree today, but this charming Monster advert conceived by BBDO NY is a wonderful change of pace from…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Only Say Yes When It’s Yes
As the President of The Ashy Agency and Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Broadcast Design Association (BDA), Brett Ashy has worked with…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Andy Rutledge’s “The Opposite of Professional”
A friend of mine passed me Andy Rutledge’s “The Opposite of Professional,” a diatribe that argues, among other things, that design professionalism cannot be instilled…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
21-19 Finally Launch.
Melbourne based multidisciplinary studio 21-19 have finally launched their site, full of a plethora of delightful print, motion and even some interactive work. There is…
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Jon Gorman • 16 years ago
Capitu Titles
So, due to popular demand, I’m pleased to re-present (as a full post) the title sequence to ‘Capitu’–a TV miniseries, based on a 19th century…
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Lilian Darmono • 16 years ago
Poll: Shepard Fairey
Over in the Quickies, I recently tossed up an interview with Milton Glaser regarding the work of Shepard Fairey, and it sparked some heated discussion.…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Psyop for T. Rowe Price: The world is connected, beautiful
Global greed, the pursuit of happiness, and 2009 have B**** slapped the world. Stories surface daily on the entanglement of American owned companies such as…
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Lauren Indovina • 16 years ago
Tintori and NABIL: Breaking your internets
It’s happened to you at least once — a color explosion on your screen created by an ill-fated download or a codec mismatch. A compression…
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Michelle Higa Fox • 16 years ago
Perrier “Melting” and “House of Saddam”
If you haven’t seen Ogilvy & Mather Paris’ Perrier “Melting” spot on the interw3bs yet, you will. It’s one of those projects destined for viral…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Surface to Air: Favorite Color and Varathit Uthaisri Working Together
A while back, we made a post about the Bonaroo line-up animation, the basic concept of which was taken from Javan Ivey’s My Paper Mind.…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Alberta oil-sand mining exposed: La Moustache for H2Oil
Happy Friday, Mographer fans! And what better way to celebrate the end of the week, than with a timely dose of ‘issue’ animation. La Moustache,…
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Simon Robson • 15 years ago
2009 Motion Graphic Census: Who, What, Why and How
Do you ever wonder how many people actually work in the Motion Graphic Design business? Do you ever think about where they might live and…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Alaska Nanooks 2010 Hockey Intro
Mike Martinez’s Alaska Nanooks’ Intro of 07-08 was a truly over-the-top pastiche of lo-fi animation with hockey, explosions, a huge Polar Bear and 80s music.…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Tronic & Marco Brambilla – Spec Ops Game Trailer + Q&A
View trailer on Vimeo Q&A with Jesse Seppi and Vivian Rosenthal of Tronic From scouring through your previous work, this appears to be Tronic’s first…
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Jake Sargeant • 15 years ago
Dear Sesame St.
Dear Sesame Street, We, the undersigned, would like to register our concern over the contest you are now conducting with Aniboom. We are concerned that…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Gabe Askew’s Ten By Ten
Gabe Askew’s new video for the song “Ten By Ten” by Bluebrain is a really interesting and well-executed piece, and quite a departure from Two…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Stephen Panicara’s DPTV Rebrand
I came across this project by Steve Panicara over at the Motion Exchange and was very impressed by it. Immediately by the tight and energetic…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 15 years ago
Kenichi Tanaka: Japan-A Strange Country
UPDATE: English VO version found on youtube! Thanks for the info, tvp. Kenichi Tanaka made this thesis piece to show his countrymen that things that…
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Lilian Darmono • 15 years ago
[Review] Frank
Editor’s note: Like all our reviews, this is one is uncompensated and written purely out of curiosity about a new service that might be useful…
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Justin Cone • 13 years ago