Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Inspired by the rollercoaster peaks and perils of parenthood, London creative director Joe Lovelock creates a typographic homage to the finer moments of child-rearing. [Watch]
New York prodco Dress Code relays the story of rediscovering Sherman, a typeface designed by Frederic Goudy in 1910 and revived by Pentagram in 2016 as the official font of Syracuse University. [Watch]
Riff Raff directing duo Ed Kaye and Alex Mavor (aka The Sacred Egg) team with the MPC VFX crew to nail three weird and wonderful spots to the wall for Mail Chimp thru Droga5. [Watch]
Mill+ directors bif dispatch electro-pop duo Shy Luv and their CG clones “on a provocative and elegant quest for love, as if they were puppets traveling through a surreal landscape.” [Watch]
Rising star director Oscar Hudson strings together 10 actors in 18 rooms with only two long tracking shots, one edit and zero VFX in this music video for the new Bonobo track “No Reason” – designed to give claustrophobics the bends. [Watch]
Dark, dreamlike and superbly crafted, this music video by Marseille motion designer Joseph Blanc for “This Mess Won’t Make Itself” by London indie pop group Dead Seem Old, toys with and then eradicates the boundary between 2D and 3D. [Watch]
The mother of all action-nerd animation series returns for episode 2 wherein Tesla and the Super Science Friends take on cherubic-but-dastardly Thomas Edison for control of NYC’s electricity. [Watch]
Your childhood memories of Humpty Dumpty just got a whole lot gooier courtesy of this pre-Super Bowl spot for TurboTax from Smuggler director Ivan Zacharias with VFX work from The Mill thru Wieden + Kennedy Portland. [Watch]
Kansas City motion mavens MK12 promise to MAKE AMERICA SEXY AGAIN™ and here’s the proof: a 12-minute venture into camp-retro-future-Nazi-weirdness called “MAN OF ACTION! II: Ashes of Vengeance.” [Watch]
If, like us (and most of the planet), you were enthralled by the refractive magic of the spec title sequence “Organic Machines” by Beijing visual designer Zaoeyo (Xiaolin Zeng), then you’ll certainly appreciate his luminous all-CG opening for Pause 2017. [Watch]
Here’s a little counter-programming for inauguration day 2017, a snappy two-minute peek at the 31 new animation, VFX and design projects included in Stash 121 and now part of the Stash Permanent Collection. [Watch]
With the inauguration of the 45th US president only hours away, this explosive call to unity by NYC director and visual engineer Steve Giralt bears a powerful message, “Democracy doesn’t require uniformity, but it does require active citizenship.” [Watch]
With President Obama leaving office this week, we wanted to publish a piece that captured some of the eloquence, charm, and narrative ability he brought to the hardest job in the world. [Watch]
Nexus director GMUNK teams with the VFX crew at The Mill in London to plunge you into an AI’s vivid data dream – part of the launch campaign for the new Audi A5 thru BBH. [Watch]
