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 • 14 years ago
Julien Nantiec for Ulule
Julien Nantiec for Ulule
Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
Airside + Demos: The Power Gap
British think-tank Demos teamed up with creative agency Airside to create “The Power Gap,” a three-minute visual essay that surveys the history of power structures…
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Justin Cone • 14 years ago
The Story of Cap & Trade
A new installment in the Story of Stuff series: The Story of Cap & Trade. (Thanks, Jeff!)
Justin Cone • 14 years ago
Nuru International: Visual Essay “How Nuru Works”
Nuru International puts a typographic spin on erasing extreme poverty in this visual essay, How Nuru Works.
Brandon Lori • 14 years ago
Peppermill Berlin: “The Big Coup”
Peppermill Berlin recently created a fine visual essay for German rail company Deutsche Bahn. We’d normally Quickie this sort of thing, but the video comes…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Jonathan Jarvis and The New Mediators
Building on the success of his incredibly lucid and educational animation, “The Crisis of Credit Visualized,” designer/animator Jonathan Jarvis announced an interesting new venture, The…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Picturelab: Mint “One Trillion Dollars Visualized”
Picturelab shows us why trillion is the new billion. Based on the work by Jess Bachman of WallStats.
Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Crush: Hellmann’s “It’s Time for Real”
Nice mix of metaphor and infographics in this visual essay from Crush and Sons and Daughters’ Steve Gordan urging Canadians to eat local
Justin Cone • 15 years ago
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
“Oh great, here comes Old Man Cone again, rambling about visual essays.” I know, I know, but I really do believe that when motion design…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Michael Reissinger: “A Short History of Marketing”
Michael Reissinger directed and illustrated this informative little diddy about the history of marketing
Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Kyle Downes: A Short History of Video Games
“A Short History of Video Games” from Kyle Downes for his degree at RMIT in Melbourne
Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Theo Alexopoulos: Preparedness Now
ShakeOut sets up this project better than I ever could: Up-and-coming film director, motion graphics designer and Art Center College of Design alumnus, Theo Alexopoulos,…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip
For his Animation MA at the Royal College of Art, Leo Murray created an ambitious 11-minute short film on climate change, “Wake Up, Freak Out…
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Justin Cone • 15 years ago
The Comma
The Comma, for the Brazilian Press Association (ABI) (Thanks, Umy!)
Justin Cone • 16 years ago
VFS: Perfect the way we are
Vancouver Film School alumni and faculty teamed up to create Perfectthewayweare.ca, a website and visual essay attempting to bring some of Canada’s pressing social and…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
GOOD: The Hidden Cost of War
I love GOOD’s Transparency series. By combinging great writing with clean, concise visuals, GOOD consistently produces top-notch visual essays that treat viewers like intelligent beings.…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
GOOD Magazine: Lords of the Rings
GOOD Magazine’s latest addition to its Transparency series, “Lords of the Rings,” created in collaboration with Dorian Orange.
Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Axel Rudolph: Knowledge
[Updated with subtitles] For his final year project at Berufsakademie Ravensburg in Germany, Axel Rudolph created “Knowledge,” a proof-of-concept video for his vision of what…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Framestore CFC: “Sugar Battery”
“Sugar Battery,” a new visual essay from Framestore CFC‘s design team, is a solid follow up to their previous “Hydrogen” for production company Coast. Taking…
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Justin Cone • 17 years ago
