Links

It's amazing how random links through design can penetrate other areas of one's design practise, put into context, my last post documenting recent design around the city of Amsterdam completely randomly landed me on an example of motion graphics after following up a link in one of the pictures - www.getitdone.org

"Get it done is a global community that empowers you to positively change people's lives", this piece of kinetic typography is a promotional/persuasive video encouraging people to get involved

Dutch

I recently had the chance to go on an all expenses paid, weekend trip to Amsterdam due to a few fellow creatives living out there working on various live projects. For the very short time and little camera battery life I had, I tried to capture some of the more interesting graphic design and typography around the city. I fell in love with Amsterdam when I was about 16, mainly for the grungy but friendly atmosphere it had to offer, in recent years it's cleaned itself up a lot, especially in terms of graffiti and street art, although their design is still as strong as ever...

Hangul

Hangul is is the native alphabet of the Korean language, I'm unsure whether this typeface is called 'Blooms' or it's just the title of the video. Only working with specific glyphs from the language, this motion graphic explores a massively wide range of techniques commonly found in many kinetic type designs. Predominantly using black and white until the end where colour is introduced alongside a kaleidoscope effect, in which the colour feels very relevant and considered.

W O R K

A lot more relevant to the short, solely type based, silent movies we're focusing on at the moment. This video along with a couple more from the designer experiments with the word work over a 10 second periods, only manipulating the position and rotation of each letterform.

Auto Pilot

Night Shift

Although this isn't motion graphics so to speak, in terms of being produced in After Effects or motion software, but I was so amazed by the one night production of this poster for the 3rd Antropofest Festival 2012 by designer Bohdan Heblik, it had to be blogged. The type could easily be applied to motion graphic software and create a beautiful piece of design using the block shapes and tubes, experimenting with perspective and interaction of image as type.

D-Sign

Colourful Kinetic Typography from David Klassen a Freelance Motion Designer based in Germany.

Better

"We are starting the new year with some new projects, new goals and new challenges.
Whatever you do, always try to be the best you can be. Spread the word."

A minute long motivational typographic motion graphic from Clim, simply using the quote, 'I'm/You're/We're going to make it better', a quote that should always be lingering in my head as a designer. Beautiful use of colour and type, especially from 0.50 - 1.00 min. There is some really crisp stuff over at their website, more posts coming this way from the studio...

Without Words

"A short film that explains the rules of typography without any actual words. The rationale behind the project was to communicate a complex subject through simple graphic images.  ...This medium has been used in order to explain the rules more effectively, rather than static images on a page."

I'm very drawn towards the abstraction of typography in this piece of motion graphics, a very simple take with a strong sense of content once the projects intentions are revealed. Simple in terms of colour and technical process but very effective in my eyes, easily achieveable for the level of technical ability I'm hoping to attain.

Wim Crouwel

These type animations were created for Dutch Graphic Designer Wim Crouwel's exhibition - A Graphic Odyssey. Some amazing typographic forms and designs from Crouwel, definitely a source to remember and explore further.

 

Kinetype

A series of experiments involving typography in motion.

motionography

A few more examples of a kinetic typefaces most created with/for use with Adobe After Effects...

Typogami

An animated typeface for After Effects, although not specifically motion graphics in terms of storyboarding to greater extent, but I want to collect a rounded body of research into areas of kinetic typography.

Inspiration

Self-promo ident for Ben O'Brein's portfolio site BensFolio.com. Inspired by the 1980s idents from Channel 4, a high impact 10 second personal advert so to speak, definitely something to think about for my own personal self promotion, more so if moving image becomes a larger part of my creative output.

Neuforma

HypeForType - Neuforma Typography Ident

OCR A

These two typography experiments were made using the font OCR A Std, combined with the colour choices I love the overall design. More importantly the designer has exercised some of the core elements I've been learning technically in After Effects and also theoretically, putting the content I've been learning ever more into context.
I think it would be setting my sights reasonably to say I'd be particularly pleased with an outcome of a similar standard to the top example here from this current module.

Spiekermann

This piece of kinetic typography works with a quote from graphic designer Erik Spiekermann, talking about his love for typography. The initial frames seem fairly straight forward, moving quickly and cleanly in what seems to be an abstract manor, until the frame zooms out revealing the word 'type' assembled from the type used throughout.

Portal

This particular piece of motion design is for a game particularly close to my heart. The game challenges concepts of depth, perspective and thinking, represented quite well though the use of type and effects used throughout this promotional motion graphic.

Cropped

This is another short example, using only black and white to communicate a word. It makes use of the cropping and zooming elements of motion graphics we learnt and experimented with in the first storyboarding workshop.
A really tight and simple example of defining meaning through motion, almost exactly the task we have in hand currently, only slightly shorter.

Starting to look at kinetic experiments using type, only 9 seconds long, this example is the kind of length motion graphic we're aiming to produce at present. I love the combination of type, paths growing and entwining to make up the final forms. It's a shame about the final zip animation that it cuts out with, unnecessary detail, I feel.