Monthly Archives: February 2007

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

PSST! 2 Trailer is up.

PSST! 2 Trailer is up.

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

Free (Legal) Vintage Video Loops

Free (Legal) Vintage Video Loops

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

Inspire 07: The Aftermath

Thank you all so much for the kind emails asking about Inspire 07. From my perspective, it went really well, especially for our first time… Read more

Blacklist updates

Blacklist updates

Sneaux by PES

Sneaux “Human Skateboard”, a new spot by PES!

Ryan Larkin {RIP}

Canadian animation legend Ryan Larkin passed away on February 14 from brain cancer. {RIP}

Stylish IDs for ABC1 from zpsace

Sydney-based zspace did a beautiful job on these ABC1 IDs. The CG elements are elegantly simple, the type is understated and the live action is… Read more

Luminescene interviews Psyop

Luminescene interviews Psyop

Meet PandaPanther

PandaPanther is a new studio launched by Jonathin Garin and Naomi Nishimura with Executive Producer Lydia Holness and they are NOT messin’ around.

Wow! That’s pretty …

Warren Du- Preez and Nick Thornton Jones of Wanted Films direct this stunningly trippy spot for BMW that is full of amazing visual moments. Lasers,… Read more

Leftchannel Does East and West

Leftchannel has recently posted a couple very different projects for two very different markets. The first is an insane :30 spot for Japanese beverage-maker Kirin.… Read more