Infographics Save Lives

What makes a video essay great? by Kevin B Lee

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/the-best-video-essays-of-2014

How to be alone- video essay with animation

Dot and the Line

raising hope- elementary reader style

See the storyboard here

Raising Hope uses an elementary reader style for their titles

from designer Ariel Shepard:

"I was hired by Shine Creative Director Michael Riley to illustrate these cards for Raising Hope, a comedic sitcom on Television Network Fox that first aired Fall 2010. I collaborated with animator Cory Shaw to create this Main title using the concept of a twisted comedic Dick and Jane. This was a
great project. The show got picked up for a second season and I went back to shine in 2011 and rebooted a few cards. Working with Shine and Cory Shaw is always a pleasure."

Short ads and stuff with IDEAS~

http://www.blacklist.tv/projects/warby-parker-introduction/#

http://www.blacklist.tv/projects/meth-project-montage/

http://www.blacklist.tv/projects/science-museum/#

Dynamic Graphics- Week 1

We talked in class about the word "dynamic" used to describe an image. I am copying here a definition of Dynamic.


dy·nam·ic/dīˈnamik/

Adjective: (of a process or system) Characterized by constant change, activity, or progress.

Noun: A force that stimulates change or progress within a system or process.

Synonyms: dynamics

You can imagine there is a degree of dynamism-- more or less. There is no measurement, but is about whether or not it makes your eyes and your emotions react in a way as if they are perceiving movement, anxiety, and speed. Think of the image of a rocket taking off.

Examine the following for different forms of dynamism.
Use these or other examples from the same artists as mattes to do your second dynamic image.



In the history of art, there have been movements when artists especially tried to represent the velocity of technological change.
For example, even to ride the train for people in the 1800s was very exciting feeling and even violent, because of the speed, and the loud noise and the irregular movement. Technological advancement was also experienced through the violence of World War 1, and artists tried to capture that in dynamic images--

See: Futurist Images HERE

RUSSULO, Luigi. 1911. The Revolt

Piet MONDRIAN, early 20th century

Guernica, by Pablo PICASSO. 1937

Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, Basque Country, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. FROM WIKIPEDIA. MORE

"Blips and Ifs" by Stuart DAVIS, 1963-4

"Eggbeat" by Stuart DAVIS



Good discussion of art of Stuart DAVIS at this link

Romare BEARDON. American artist 1911-1988

Saul Bass 1920-1996

The Man with the Golden Arm

john haddock vector graphics

Civil Rights protesters attacked with firehoses

From John Haddock's Cartoon Violence series


Picnic Scene from the Sound of music

Interview with Steve Duenes, graphics editor at the NY Times

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"When we create diagrams, we keep a couple of things in mind. We want to be clear, and we don't want to invent anything. Maybe it's obvious what I mean when I say we want to be clear, but I'll elaborate a little. It means we want to eliminate superfluous detail, and we want to establish a clear visual hierarchy." More..


Using modularity-- little icons accumulate to represent numbers.






Using flowing lines to show connections between events and people.

Sir Ken Robinson

Do schools kill creativity? What can we do to make sure they do not?