Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Join 35 STYLE FRAMES speakers plus an audience full of designers, directors, animators, ADs, CDs, ACDs, ECDs, producers and EPs, HOPs, VPs, SVPs, VFX artists/supervisors, educators, audio and interactive designers plus VR producers, from all sides of the creative industry. [Watch]
Creative Director Gareth O’Brien and the Buck crew continue to up the bar for explainer videos with this luminous and intricate 60-second spot for western US health insurance company Bridgespan thru Seattle agency Cole & Weber. [Watch]
Hold onto your memes and emojis, Tomás García and his crew in Buenos Aires just sent us this absurd whack of chaos/branding for MTV.OS, aka the scary future of broadcasting that uses A.I. to take over your TV brain. [Watch]
Take a look at the visual treat Hornet director Eran Hilleli has in store for STYLE FRAMES attendees on the morning of Nov 7. Both inviting and epic, Eran’s titles capture the friendly, inspirational atmosphere as well as the important design issues underpinning the conference.
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When Donald Trump called Hilary Clinton a “nasty woman,” he unintentionally created a rallying cry for women voters and he also helped reframe how we see women struggling for respect in a world dominated by men. [Watch]
Istanbul creative new media agency Ouchhh keeps hammering at the edges of art, design, and technology with their newest commissioned work, a striking six-projector installation in Paris called AVA V2 inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller. [Watch]
Nexus director Jack Cunningham mixes classic stop motion and 3D animation with 3D printing to create “a unique insight into how the craft of making has evolved whilst still retaining traditional values and skills” for London men’s clothing label Tripl Stitched. [Watch]
Ever since Fritz Lang introduced Maria in his 1927 expressionist sci-fi classic “Metropolis,” audiences have been fascinated by robots both benevolent and nasty – see if you can name all the pop-culture bots featured in this snappy timeline tribute from Brainbot Studios in Madrid. [Watch]
The Aardman Nathan Love crew blow right past their regular 3D character animation parking space to join director Kris Merc in the pop-culture passing lane with this seizure-inducing torrent of multimedia disguised as the music video for Kool Keith X MF Doom ”Super Hero.” [Watch]
Julian Ticona Cuba, one half of the German creative team known as Noise (with Daniel Bartels) weaves sombre and mysterious visuals with the hypnotic poetry of UK wordsmith Johnny BANG Reilly in this director’s cut of “Nightfall” for Universal Music. [Watch]
Check this frenetic animated blast of dark humor called “Mr. Anxiety Goes on a Date,” an over-caffeinated interior monologue completed in one day by 4inaroom, aka Alyona Ciobanu, Anna Florea, The Sandul, and Serban Ilicevici. [Watch]
Paris director/animator Hugo Ramirez unleashes a visceral roto-nightmare he calls “black ink animation insanity” for Yann Kornowicz’s track “The Chase in the Ghost Train” thru Paris prodco Eddy. [Watch]
US designer/director Matt Smithson warms up the revolutionary (and somewhat scary) breakthroughs in mind reading technology with eccentric, light-hearted visuals for the Future of Storytelling speaker Marvin Chun, the Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology at Yale. [Watch]
Zombie Studio in São Paulo, Brazil make a brazen grab for your heartstrings in this promo for the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (NYC, October 17-24) with a mix of utopian and tragic imagery powered by the drama of the Les Misérables track “I Dreamed a Dream.” [Watch]
