Changethethought

I’ve been here for years. But yes, Changethethought.com will be making a return in the year 2016. An entirely new site design is on its way. I will also be acknowledging a more roundabout manner of content that will more holistically acknowledge the life and times of a post millennium creative. So much has changed. I’ve tried and failed at running a studio, and in several iterations. And I’ve chosen to come home back to where it all began. Changethethought.com is and always has been one of the best things I’ve ever done. In the past 5 years I’ve become a father twice over. And now more than ever I worry about the future. And I think this website has a role to play and a voice to be heard and shared. It’s time to shift focus back to where it belongs and plug this sucker back in. Much has changed since I unexpectedly fell silent in 2013. But I believe 2016 might be the absolute perfect time to begin anew. Call it a feeling.

I’ve since been reinventing myself as a Creative Director, Art Director, Director, Animator, Designer, Illustrator, Brand(er) and Writer again via a new personal experimental playground here: The Changethethought Studio

I’ve teased a relaunch of this website before but this is not a tease. The fury will be coming again soon and this time I intend to light a fire much brighter than what burned before. Thank you for your past support and I hope you can stay the course with me in the future. I chose the name of this site for a reason. And I intend to work towards fulfilling the promise the name makes. I’ll be speaking with you all again very soon.

Expect daily posts and a robust on demand storefront featuring lots of design-centric, politically loud-mouthed and typographically observant merchandise.

Watch this space.

Christopher Cox
Changethethought Founder and Administrator

written by Christopher | tags: 2016, announcement, Changethethought, Christopher Cox, Relaunch

“For FITC Amsterdam 2013, we created these titles based on the creative designed by mr Bradley G Munkowitz (aka GMUNK)
Since Bradley was already working on the creative for the print campaign of FITC Amsterdam 2013, and we loved his design work, we decided to step in and give FITC a complete and cohesive visual package instead of visually creating something completely new or different.

And so here it is.. our “Pyradical” main titles for FITC Amsterdam 2013. Pure disco!”

Produced for FITC Amsterdam 2013. More info at fitc.ca/amsterdam

Credits:
Design & Concept: GMUNK (gmunk.com/)
Production & Direction : ONESIZE (onesize.com)
Type Font Design: Brian M Gosset (briangossett.com/)
Music & Sound Design: MassiveMusic (massivemusic.com/)

The soundtrack was composed and designed by our friends @ MassiveMusic Amsterdam

Man I want to go to this so bad this year. Hmm. How to talk my wife into letting me go to Barcelona.

written by Christopher | tags: FITC, Gmunk, motion design, Typography

Graphic design just does not get hipper or more ‘now’ than it does at Pure Magenta.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Minneapolis, Pure Magenta, Sarah Kissel

Credits:
Visual: Carlo Vega – carlovegaart.com/
Audio: Chilly Gonzales – chillygonzales.com/
Special thanks to Tilman Zitzmann – geometrydaily.tumblr.com/

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Gray Keys, motion design, Typography

BVD has recently updated their website and portfolio with some absolutely inspiring work. It’s an equally inspiringly designed website as well.

If you can make 711 look that good. Well…

written by Christopher | tags: Branding, BVD, Graphic Design, Swiss

There is some crazy fantastic type and illustration work combined in perfect harmony throughout the portfolio of designer/illustrator Neil Beech.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Illustration, Neil Beech, Typography

Direction: KID CASH klub7.de
Edited: EDITUDE PICTURES editudepictures.de

Music: KNOWSUM – taken from his album “The most Awkward” (Sichtexot)
KNOWSUM Album: knowsum.bandcamp.com/album/the-most-awkward sichtexot.com/
Music mixed by: EFALIVE of the JAZOBURBS

Years of production 2010-1013 in Berlin, Hamburg, Halle-Saale and New York
Thanks 2: Philip Hiersemann, Graffiti Reserch Lab, Skulls & Crosspens and Facade Printer

KLUB7 Artcollective:
DANI DAPHNE, DISKOROBOT, LOWSKII, MIKE OKAY, OTTO BAUM & KID CASH
klub7@klub7.de
klub7.de
facebook.com/pages/KLUB7/126258316864

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, motion, The Klub7 ABC, Typography

At this point you could call Un.titled a ‘classic’ contemporary graphic design firm.

written by Christopher | tags: Branding, England, Graphic Design, London, Un.titled

There are just so so many pop-culture inspired illustrations brimming over Sir Mike of Mitchell’s cup. Quick. Drink up.

written by Christopher | tags: Drawing, Illustration, Mike Mitchell, Movies, pop art

Trüf is a Santa Monica based creative studio ‘obsessed with designing better brands’. It looks like they pointed that obsession first at themselves with some excellent branding work for their own studio.

written by Christopher | tags: Branding, Graphic Design, Santa Monica, Trüf

Choros from Michael Langan on Vimeo.

Choros / 2011 / 13 min / HD / Stereo

Credits
Directed by Michael Langan and Terah Maher
Music by Steve Reich

“A chorus of women are borne from the movements of a single dancer in this dreamlike “pas de trente-deux.”
‘Choros’ premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2012 and has gone on to play dozens of festivals worldwide. The film is currently broadcast in Europe by Canal+.”

For more information on the history of this technique, visit: chorosfilm.com

written by Christopher | tags: Choros, COMPOSITING, motion design, Short Film

I am enjoying the dramatic, modern and eerily contemplative structural photography of German Art Director/Photographer Nick Frank.

written by Christopher | tags: Germany, Munich, Nick Frank, Photography, Subway

Rainbow Narcosis from Jonathan Monaghan on Vimeo.

A lamb gets lost in the multiverse.

Credits:
Animation by Jonathan Monaghan
Original Soundtrack by Evan Samek

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Jonathan Monaghan, motion, Short Film

There are some tasty tasty updates in the portfolio of Kindrid Studio. Count me as a fan of Andrew Fairclough’s style.

written by Christopher | tags: Andrew Fairclough, Australia, Kindrid Studio

The Pub from Joseph Pierce on Vimeo.

“A day caught up in the murky slipstream of a North London pub.”

Credits:
A 59 productions Film. 59productions.co.uk/
Featuring Aneta Piotrowska
Written and Directed by Joseph Pierce
Produced by Mark Grimmer
Sound by Dominic Fitzgerald
Edited by Robbie Morrison
Cinematography by Vanessa Whyte
Music by Blair Mowat
For full list of credits go to: 59productions.co.uk/project/the_pub

info@josephpierce.co.uk
twitter.com/#!/josephpierce

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Joseph Pierce, London, motion design, The Pub

Essays On Reality, Chapter 2 from Greg Barth on Vimeo.

See Chapter 1, the integral work, research and analysis: cargocollective.com/essaysonreality

Making-Of: vimeo.com/57189786

“A caricature of hardcore pornography, a visual intepretation of our relationship with social technology, and a critique on the collapse of the Europeen Union.
The Theme for this chapter is the Generation Y, and is separated into 3 essays.

Essays On Reality is an ongoing series of short video art installations, influenced by the existentialist and surrealist movement, and inspired by social-political and economic events from around the world.”

Credits:
CREATED AND DIRECTED BY Greg Barth
MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN: Nookaad Productions

TALENT: Maxime Roux
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Jean-Constant Guigue
ART DIRECTION AND LEAD DESIGN: Greg Barth
ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: Jean-Constant Guigue
COSTUMES AND PROPS: Yuki Honjo-Archer, Greg Barth
SETS: Jean-constant Guigue, Clement Yeh

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Essays on Reality, Greg Barth, Short Film

Manchester based Eskimo Creative has launched a new website with some cracking new work presented in a clean and considered manner. Very English.

written by Christopher | tags: Branding, Eskimo Creative, Graphic Design, Manchester

Advertising is mostly ugly, distractingly noisy clutter. So why not make some improvements or at the very least some art.

vermibus.com
Camera: Xarlee, cargocollective.com/xar_lee
Editing: David de Larrea
Music: Rob Costlow – Contemporary Piano – Bliss

written by Christopher | tags: Advertising, Art, collage, Graffitti, Vermibus