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Indivi abound

Here’s a slew of individuals and their sites that that seem to be doing things right. Doug Purver has apparently recently left Stardust to venture… Read more

Brand New School: Footjoy

Brand New School rocks some silky-smooth 3D work in a new spot for Footjoy. I love the live action integration after the product shot. It’s… Read more

PSST! 2

The PSST! 2 films are now online. There are nine films, made over a 4 month stretch by 27 different teams with over 70 people… Read more

Robert Hodgin/Flight404

I first happened upon Ben Fry and Casey Reas’ a/v-oriented programming language, Processing, when I attended FITC back in 2005. (I even did a little… Read more

Will Campbell and Anh Vu: The Lemon Tree

Will Campbell and Anh Vu, two SCAD students graduating from the Broadcast Design and Motion Graphics program this spring, were given Student of the Year… Read more

My Happy People

My Happy People, a design and production company created by Guillermo Lecuona and Tera Hollingsworth, is brimming with nice work full of attitude and ambiance.… Read more

The Unsung Art of Screenwashes

About a month before Inspire, we realized we needed something on the screens between presentations and during introductions. “Yeah, like one of those looped animation… Read more

Lambo: New Site, New Reel

Lambo launched a new site with a strong new reel. Is it just me or does this reel feel much more mature and marketable than… Read more

Psyop does Fanta

Awesome character design and story line in this simple yet hilarious spot for Fanta. They were able to take a fairly clichè idea and turn… Read more

Tower of Grantville Goes Back Up …

Buck has released a short film that is a sort Suessian / Goreyian fairytale with awesome illustration, character design and animation, and a pretty sinister… Read more

The Mill Scores with Levis

Great writing and flawless execution combine in this Ringan Ledwidge-directed spot for Levi’s, with post-production handled expertly by The Mill. It’s basically the BNS Shuffle… Read more

Elegantly executed piece by Heebok Lee

Check out this short film by Heebok Lee, based on a sad story of unrequited love. Visually it is beautiful and emotionally it delivers. I… Read more

Shilo Posts a New Cingular Spot

Following up on the success of the Cingular BlackJack spot, Shilo has created a slick new Cingular ad, this time featuring two phones. Because they… Read more

Transistor makes some shapes.

I love 100 ft. tall robots crashing through cities as much as the next guy, but sometimes the old eyeballs want something more graphic. Transistor… Read more

Daniel Garcia updates

You may remember recently Daniel Garcia, the dark master of motion graphics, directed videos for MF Doom and the late, legendary J. Dilla. He’s back… Read more

Stop-motion typography piece from Montreal based Julien Vallee

Based on Kurt Shwitters “Thesis on Typography”, Julien Vallee has created this meld of stop-motion and motion-graphic typography all with influences pouring in from the… Read more

Universal Everything: S4C

Universal Everything and Proud Creative collaborated on this intriguing series of IDs for Welsh channel S4C directed by Simon Ratigan. Each spot centers around concepts… Read more

Kaktus Film Presents a Tale of Robot Hubris

I know, I know: Robots stomping through cities is soooo 2006, but this cute little short from a few guys at Swedish agency Kaktus Film… Read more

UVPH Updates

UVPH updates with a slick new reel full of work in a staggering array of styles.

Jeff Han’s Version of the Bud Select Spot

NYU’s Jeff Han has proven himself to be the master of multi-touch displays. This latest video shows some amazing interface work that reminds me of… Read more

LA AIGA presents The Pentagram Papers

The Los Angeles chapter of AIGA, the professional association of design, will be hosting an open-to-the-public event on Thursday, March 15th at the Pacific Design… Read more

Contest: Wallpaper for Vector Packs

The folks at Go Media and I came up with an idea for a simple contest: Make a 1280×1024 wallpaper (.jpg or .gif) using at… Read more

Getting Caught Up With Motion Theory

In the flurry of activity surrounding Inspire (not to mention this ramshackle mess I call my life), a couple new projects from Motion Theory slipped… Read more

Say What Again

SCAD student Jarratt Moody is in Time-based Typography I here at SCAD (a course for which I’m currently the teaching assistant), and he recently finished… Read more