An inspiring motion graphic conceived by Hardy Seiler and executed with the help of his talented peers (yeah thats right, this is student work) for a fictional education tv-series. I am not Hardy’s professor but give this an A… for ace.

Inspiring motion graphic montage by New Zealand Designer + Animator Lucas Redfern Brooking.

Artist Hiroshi Sato teamed up with video talent Daihei Shibata to create this freaky yet interesting music video for Yaporigami.

Two things about this video:  1)Amazing Cinema 4D creation.  2)I am definitely going to have nightmares tonight.

Photographer Matthew Williams + Animator QIL have created some amazing animated GIFs of Jack Donoghue based on photos taken for an upcoming issue of L’Officiel Hommes. I just can’t stop staring at that undulating cube and the clarity of the GIF. My mind is blown.

More crazy cool GIFs on QIL’s website

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One hour of video is uploaded to Youtube every second.  That’s kinda hard to comprehend, so some smartypants over there put together a slick website to illustrate just how big that number really is.  And the whole site is done with CSS and HTML animations and svg elements – no Flash!  If anyone can track down who the illustrators are, I’d love to know.  Really well done.

http://www.onehourpersecond.com/

Dimitris Ladopoulos is a director from Athens Greece who is working on a short film series showcasing art & science professionals working with their hands. I always love seeing people working with their hands to make amazing things and look forward to seeing more from this series. The tracking effect is very slick and definitely makes my inner motion graphics nerd very happy.

This interesting time-lapse experiment explores the movement and contrast of dark magnetized liquid streaming through soap bubble capillaries. My favorite part is at the end, when the black fluid starts to look almost electric as it’s magnetically drawn to the center. In a world with so much computer generated stuff, it’s great to see someone use conventional techniques and knock it out of the park.

Check out more of Kim Pimmel‘s work here.

Thanks to my borderline scary obsession with all things LFC, I stumbled on the agency Uniform, based in Liverpool, by way of a creative tech at the firm. I was really impressed by their work, but more importantly by how they communicated their philosophy and how they work. Often designers or agencies can, ironically, come across fairly convoluted and excessive when trying to communicate their process. I find it especially annoying if they do it only with words. Uniform’s execution, on the other hand, comes across really approachable & succinct. It’s not overwhelmingly detailed (the point is to explain your process to clients, not to your competition), but it also has enough meat that their audience won’t feel short-changed or patronized.

What I really appreciate about the videos, though, is the example they set in how important it is to spend time polishing your own messaging. Spend some time on your own brand, and people will trust you to spend time on theirs. You don’t really want your personal physician to be a 300lb, rock-climbing smoker, do you? You probably do.

Have 2 minutes for something inspiring and cool? Of course you do.

This animated short is directed and created by four obviously talented students at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands. I truly appreciate the cinematic techniques used and the way they edited it. The speed, style and imagination of this is inspiring and really fun to watch. There is a nice balance of traditional looking and computer assisted 3D animation.

Get all more details about this short film by hitting up their site.

Get routine, get inspired, and get yourself to Dana Tanamachi’s site to check out some amazing chalk drawn type. Even better? Check out the time lapse videos of her process in action.