It’s a rare event that I create anything, and today is no exception. Amidst urgent projects, phone calls and hungry cats, I got the sudden urge to make a t-shirt and submit it to Design By Humans, my first design in fact. Check out the design:

It’s no hidden fact that paper newspapers are declining exponentially. The people who read them are now looking for their news sources online and the most innovative of news sources have taken their speaking platform to the digital. Here is a list of 7 influential newspapers with Twitter visibility. Take a look, [...]

My friend over at The Game Critique alerted me to something called “BORT” otherwise know as “Blogs of the roundtable”. What an interesting name, and I couldn’t help but wonder what it was. Apparently it’s a group of game designers who get together and discuss game design, theory, and so forth. This [...]

I understand when you’re in design school, or you’re just coming out (school just let out for the summer not too long ago) you want to work but you find most positions at design studios, corporate firms, and other venues filled with hard working (theoretically) designers. So what do you do? You freelance. [...]

After the Parsons Thesis show, I saw a lot of awe inspiring animations, namely one stood out to me because of its combination of hand-drawn elements combined with after effects technology made for a brilliant piece (suffice to say the story involved was beautiful on its own). This piece, however, is not that one (sorry to disappoint you) but one that reminds me of it. Katy Davis has a strong aesthetic style and great transitions and succeeds in combining stop motion animation with motion graphics techniques. The music is by BIM and you should check out Katie’s work at her website here.

Designatr will be a place where bands can go to find designers to do things like cover art, poster design, CD design, and possibly even band branding. Of course, it is also a place where designers will be able to go to find work to add to their portfolios. Definitely a great resources as more and more people are coming together to create music at a time where almost everyone wants to be a designer of some sort. Definitely stay up to date with them.

Great After Effects animation is hard to come by. With the slew of motion graphics art on the rise, its hard to find endearing and beautiful animation but I’ve managed to snag a golden example of engaging animation. The White Birds music video for Sarah Fimm by Newspeak uses textured artistic elements combined with rotoscoping and animated elements to create an emotionally driven and complete piece. Check them out on Vimeo as they have a ton of great animations that are perfect for inspiration.

Genki Ito has provided awesome, abstract, and astounding motion graphics paced perfectly with hard hitting industrial synth tracks. I’m impressed with his ability to sync the visual and the audio, which is a talent plenty of motion graphics artists lack.

There’s nothing wrong with upscaling your brand. If you have a product that does better in a more affluent demographic, perhaps upscaling your brand is what you need to do to get the sales you need. The problem comes when brands try to upscale products that are typically sold to a less affluent demographic.

I haven’t posted anything related to Motion Graphics in a long time and figured that 3am on a Thursday morning was the best time to post anything at all. Luckily the search was short and I came across the mind-numbing and awkwardly intense music video preview: Clarte by Jemapur.