Month: August 2013

  • ‘The History of Typography’ by Ben Barrett-Forrest

    Ben Barrett-Forrest has constructed a charming introduction to the field of typography. This topic, which over the years has enthralled a certain type of graphic designer, has also left the rest of us puzzled as to what all the fuss was about. Forrest’s short educational film provides a carefully measured level of insight; not so…

  • Iki – See you soon (Iki – Bis bald) by Florian Maubach

    Florian Maubach documents his bicycle journey from Kassel, Germany, to the coast of Lithuania. In one minute twenty Maubach convinces us of his reverence for landscape, passion for adventure and artistic dynamism. The viewer adopts a satellite perspective while the surroundings immediately visible to the cyclist distort into a miniature globe. This frenetically changing sphere…

  • ‘Irish Folk Furniture’ by Tony Donoghue

    Irish Folk Furniture [clip] (2012) from Alan Eddie on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/59224188 We must have been busy with all sorts of of other things here at the blog (we have! – more soon) as it’s taken us a few months to catch up with this short which won the Short Film Jury Prize for Animation at…

  • ‘I Met the Walrus’ by Josh Raskin

    ‘I Met the Walrus’ is the animated extension of an extraordinary interview that took place in 1969. A fourteen-year-old Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape machine, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto. The ‘Beatle’ rewarded the teenager’s pluckiness with an interview that contains the distillation of the musician’s message of peaceful protest.…

  • ‘A Brief History of the Internet’ by Melih Bilgil

    Melih Bilgil’s ‘A Brief History of the Internet’ employs a distinctly simple visual language to depict a series of complex communication and technology developments. We are hurtled through the historical contexts of various breakthroughs that collectively lead to the invention of the World Wide Web. This animation project was conceived as a vehicle for showcasing…