Web design powerhouse North Kingdom has relaunched with a new site and some new project work. Their conceptual thinking seems to be transitioning nicely over to broadcast advertising and brand campaign development. It’s a testament to the kind of strategical thinking that goes into web design and development.
Venezualan designer Yker Moreno who now resides in Brooklyn and works for one of my most favorite places in the whole wide world, Buck has updated with a few new projects and a new website.
This is one fine little piece of brain candy produced by Takuya Hosogane. You can see the full credits at the Vimeo page for the video and learn more about some of Hosogane’s other projects at Bonsajo.
Universal Everything has released their reel for 2010. As always, there is some spectacular work to behold, they remain at the top of the game.
David O’Reilly & Jon Klassen’s collaborated to complete this recent personal project that will screen at the If You Could Collaborate show at A Foundation Gallery in London.
Via Motionographer.
“Light and dark, noise and calm, beauty, decay, pain and hope–these are the shattering contrasts that propel our lives ahead in the boundless, throbbing river of existence. None of us knows what the next moment will bring, the raptures and terrifying discoveries born with every choice. And yet, in the alternation of day and night, in the ebb and tide of the oceans, in the constant expansion and quiet contraction of our lungs in and out with each breath–we know our journey is not random chaos but a journey where every shouting supernova, every trembling cell, returns to the one perfect mystery from which we all come and go.Instead, in the rotation of the stars, planets, seasons, increase, loss, sadness, joy, struggle, surrender– there is a cosmic beauty, a unity and purpose.”
Credits:
Ayhan Cebe
S. Asli Cebe
Ben Lukas Boysen (Hecq)
Hicabi Gulgen
Khaliff Watkins
Archana Mahalingam
Buenos Aires based motion agency PepperMelon has updated with a new reel and new work for twentyten. The best part of their recent site is that they delve deep into the process involved in crafting their animations including some really nice images detailing character development from sketches through completion. It’s a nice thing to browse through and gives some insight into just how much work goes into creating a minute or less of animation.
“Form+Format was conceived out of a relationship between creative strategist Ita Jalaluddin, graphic designer Daniel Neye and multimedia designer Marcel Wessling.” Their partnership has allowed them to work with clients like Vattenfall Europe, Nike, Kitty-Yo and Entak.Inc / Kilo Records. Their work has been featured, published and broadcasted worldwide in magazines, books and festivals, such as Die Gestalten, MTV Asia, the National Film Institute London and the highly acclaimed NEMO Festival in Paris.
Dress Code is a New York based design and motion graphics studio that has recently relaunched it’s website. There are some super fun background images loading randomly on the site including the one above.
Robert Hodgin AKA Flight 404 has launched a new personal website exhibiting his experimental and now often commissioned work with Processing from the last few years. His work continues to amaze and grow into something that begs to be seen.
Motion designer Ricardo Villavicencio has updated with a new cache of visually stunning work. Loving the piece above.
I am really digging this little experimental motion piece titled, ‘Metempsychosis’ from motionographer Alain Lores. I would love to see something like this utilizing typography. You can see more of Alain’s work here.
“An experimental typographic work (from Murat Pak); trying to go beyond the limits of our well known garamond.”
“For the first time in HD on Christmas 2009: … _grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally … various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds …
Media critic Matt Hanson, author of The End of Celluloid and founder of onedotzero festival says: “_grau appeals to me because it is organo-tech. it does not deliberately ape the abstract pioneers of abstract cinema, and it is worlds away from the motion graphic masturbation of many of those enamoured by digital animation. seidel’s work is impressionistic, melding biological and emotional currents. out of amorphous shapes we make out bones, heads, a hand. a spirit leaving the body. at least, this is what i sense out of the chaos of galactic reconfigurations, neurological connections, and biological forms. this is a powerful piece of digital animation precisely because it does not feel like such, it feels emotional, epic. and once you release the background to the animation–communicating a ‘coming to terms’ with the aftermath of a car accident–you realise why. ”
More about Robert Seidel here: 2minds.de
Philippe Intraligi does some crisp and clean vector branding work for some big clients. He also cranks out some nice visuals for use in television spots. He is a bit of a jack of all trades and it doesn’t seem to hinder him at all from pulling in the projects.
Moscow-based graphic and motion designer Serge Zavyalov has a lot of work on his website executed in various styles. His imagery often harbors the ready-to-burst kinetic energy that helps it translate directly into motion.
Berliner Timo Boese A.K.A. Lowerground, got in touch to let us know that he has been busy creating new motion graphics for the likes of Nike, Lamborghini and A-Ha.
North Kingdom has released a new show reel featuring selected cases from 2003 to 2009.
