Reel of the Month Club (Dec. 2024): Coat of Arms
December 21, 2024
At the 2017 Emmy awards, Elastic director Patrick Clair claimed three of the five nominations in the Outstanding Main Title Design category for his work on American Gods (Starz), The Crown (Netflix), and Westworld (HBO). [Watch]
Agile Films director Zac Ella steers the manic, multilayered chaos in this launch film for the GLITCH two-part soccer boot from Adidas which allows players change the outer layer to suit the mood. [Watch]
Directors Dalmiro Buigues, Martin Dasnoy and the crew at Buda in Buenos Aires launch the Nike Epic React runners in Argentina with six intensely cute fantasy animation pieces made for mobile via agency Nosotros Cinco. [Watch]
The all-Jerusalem team of director/animator Kobi Vogman and street artists Brothers of Light (siblings Elna and Gab) combine talents to create a striking mix of stop motion and 2D animation for Israel’s Shapiro Brewery. [Watch]
Magnus Atom, motion graphics designer at VICE in Brooklyn: “To celebrate Weed Week, I was asked to create some trip-inducing animated visuals to play on and around 4/20. Happy Weed Week ya’ll!” [Watch]
French director/designer Ugo Bienvenu applies his signature golden age of comic books style to a quirky and perky retro-future holiday promo for Japanese clothing brand Edwin. [Watch]
Drawing inspiration from a poem by Italian architect, designer, and Memphis master Ettore Sottsass, director Ryan Rumbolt and the Wonderlust team in Halifax “explore the spectrum of emotions in everyday life.” [Watch]
Blink director Dougal Wilson and the MPC VFX crew re-team to shake up the sartorial status quo for ghost parties everywhere in this spot for IKEA thru Mother. [Watch]
Danish photographer Søren Solkær (best known for portraits of music icons like Björk, The White Stripes, U2, etc.) announces the global tour of his SURFACE exhibition with a graphically intense promo by Frame in Copenhagen. [Watch]
The Ugly Project makes it’s break into the mainstream with Nikita Diakur applying his singular talent for severely busted 3D marionettes to this :15 MTV Ident. [Watch]
Director/animator César Pelizer and weareseventeen in London just released this surreal (and strangely accurate) look at one man’s search for the meaning of life while drifting off in his cubicle. [Watch]
Installed at the Pilevneli Gallery in Istanbul, Refik Anadol’s hypnotic Data Sculpture for Melting Memories comprises a five-meter high media wall driven by custom software and explores “the intersection of advanced technology and contemporary art.” [Watch]
Pictoplasma Berlin 2018 kicks open the doors May 2 with this fun short film which director Jon Dunleavy describes as “a subversive initiation into the art of character design, as told by a malevolent artificial intelligence.” [Watch]
ManvsMachine on turning imagination into reality: “For the 4th year running we teamed up with our friends over at Nike Sportswear to craft their global campaign for Air Max Day.” [Watch]
