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A Brief History of Title Design

Douggie — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:30:20 +0000

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Ian Albinson of Art of The Title edited this video for SXSW, which shows cool title designs through the years. You can find the full list of movies used in the video on the Vimeo Page.

5Nations Squash Championships 2010

Douggie — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:11:28 +0000

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A funny short instructional movie with some nice typography effects in the “stewardess-there-are-exits-here-and-here-style” (if that is a term). Made by the Italian studio SNATCH S.R.L. and directed by Fabio “Fubah” Pini.

Storm Trailer

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:54:44 +0000

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The trailer of a short animated movie based on the performance Tim Minchin, directed by DC Turner and animated by Fraser Davidson of Mainframe. Check out their production blog here.

Jonas & François

Douggie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:07:41 +0000

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The previous post of Pas reminded me that Justice also released this really cool video with motion graphics on t-shirts for the song D.A.N.C.E.. This video made by the French duo Jonas & François has been nomitated for “Video of the Year” by MTV in 2007, so you probably have seen it before. They’ve done a similar video with LP covers which is the one above, which is a teaser for the ED Banger Vol. 2.

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The duo has done many music videos like Madonna’s 4 Minutes, but it seems like the ones using animations are the best ones. The one above is the music video for Kavinsky‘s Testarossa Autodrive.

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As with their other videos, here’s another one that’s recognizable for its animation, rotoscoping and typography: Flair’s Better than Prince. If anybody knows the official page for Jonas & François please post the link – it’s seems like my Googling skills are a bit off today.

Justice – DVNO

Pas — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:32:30 +0000

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If you’re a fan of Justice, then no doubt you’ve already seen this. For the rest of you, here’s the video for Justice’s “DVNO”, a really nice motion graphic using popular titles and putting their own spin on it.

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Watch this to see the title designs that the video was inspired from.

We Didn’t Start the Flame War

Pas — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:10:54 +0000

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A highly catchy and amusing rendition of internet culture, all in just under 3 minutes!

The Uppercase and Lowercase Clock

Douggie — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:24:56 +0000

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Stop motion AND typography? What more do you want? A short but sweet stop motion film made by ruifilipeabreu. The moving fonts are done quite nicely and here’s some “making of”-information of him in one of the YouTube-comments:

This was photographed with a Nikon D60 with a 18-55mm lens. I shot it with Istopmotion which is very easy to use software, and not very expensive. The music was made with Garage band. And most of the sound FX are stock sounds.

The letters were cut in MDF, and I used the substitution technique.

The set is made of 5mm cardboard painted with acrylic ink
and was inspired/copied from Jacques-Louis David’s painting The Oath of the Horattii.

Quite interesting that it is MDF – it sort of looks like clay.

Typography/Design Documentaires

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:31:09 +0000

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A documentary yet to be released called “Typeface” has its trailer just released. It seems interesting if you’re into typography and graphic design as the trailer shows a small part about old school typeface setting. The tagline is “Charting the intersection between rural America and contemporary graphic design”, so I excited to see it!

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This is an interesting, almost 3-year old documentary about the most used font on the planet, Helvetica. Even though “Helvetica” is the title, it is more the excuse underneath for the documentary, because essentially, this film is about typography and graphic design and that is what makes it interesting. Check out the official website for more interesting stuff, as well as cool merchandise. You can get the film too on the website.

Sakanakushon – Arukuaraundo

Douggie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:42:18 +0000

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Music video for the single “Arukuaraundo” by the Japanese band Sakanakushon. Japanese Typography on a whole different level than all the motion graphic typography you’re used to!

The Girl Effect

Pas — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:13:02 +0000

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A fairly old video I found last year, but one that is definately worth watching if you’re interested in typography or motion graphics. Very simple, clean job on the video, reminding us that simplicity is sometimes the best form of sophistication.