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All creatives need to go to a museum now and then; it's inspiring, encouraging, and refreshing. The problem that motion-graphics artists face is the lack of venues in which to present their work. Pause :59 Minutes of Motion Graphics is a showcase that helps fill that void; an oasis of images that are designed to enlighten and motivate.
This oversized softcover (which uses time code instead of page numbers) presents some of the finest work from a global pool, 300 lavish frames that illustrate the best in contemporary video design, motion graphics, and animation. This collection--featuring such luminary studios as The Attik and MTV, and individual artists like Mike Mills and Richard Kennworthy--is not to be missed. It's a shame that the pictures don't move.
In fact, if there's anything to complain about, it's the fact that there's no accompanying video, CD-ROM, or DVD to display the stunning work in this book properly. Even a Web site with QuickTime clips would have allowed readers to study and admire the work as it was meant to be presented.
If you create animation--or plan to--or do anything that's related to video, film, or motion graphics, you should read this book. Eye-popping, international, and oozing with creativity, Pause :59 Minutes of Motion Graphics belongs not on your shelf, but on your desk; open, accessible, and well worn. --Mike Caputo
Book Description
With its dynamic synthesis of such diverse media as film, animation, graphics and music, video design provides an expansive view into the many states of contemporary creativity. Pause tracks and contextualizes the visual and technological treends that mark the work of the most innovative video designers. As well as broadcast work, Pause examines demo reels, music videos, film titles, animation and experimental 3-D graphics.
Contributing video artists include Tomato, The Attik, Intro, MTV, Fuel, Tycoon Graphics, Richard Kennworthy, Mike Mills and many others from the US, UK, France, Germany, Holland, Japan, Scandinavia and other countries. Work is arranged according to type, rather than author or history, and each chapter is devoted to a theme, with a short introduction. The book also includes an introductory essay and timeline on the development of motion graphics since the widespread acceptance of television.
About the Author
Julie Hirschfeld worked as a senior designer of on-air graphics for VH1, New York from 1997 and is now a freelance designer of motion graphics in New York City. Recently she has completed projects for MTV, VH1 and Showtime. Awards for her work include four Broadcast Design Awards silvers in 1998 and 1999 and the Type Director's Club 1998.
Stefanie Barth is a freelance graphic designer based in Frankfurt, Germany. She has designed numerous projects for print including magazines; vinyl covers; corporate designs; film titles and web pages; as well as on-air design for VH1, New York.
Peter Hall is senior writer at I.D. Magazine in New York. He wrote and co-edited the book Tibor: Perverse Optimist (1998) and has contributed essays to the upcoming titles Architecture and Film and Sex and Design. He also writes about design for The Guardian, Print, AIGA Journal and Creative Review.
Andrea Codrington is a New York-based critic and writer specializing in design and visual culture and a frequent contributor to such publications as the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, I.D. Magazine and Metropolitan Home. Codrington is also creative producer of a television series about design and architecture that is currently in development.
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