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Favorite Typography Videos

Many typography videos later, I have a a few new favorites!

*"Typolution": SO COOL. Typographic animation film with an environmental theme. Set to the song "Nostrand" by Ratatat.



*"Conscious": Undergrad project using motion graphics portraying the unconscious mind drifting into a dream state and finally coming to awareness within it. (i.e., really cool)



*"Flickermood": Flickermood is a fluid motion graphics piece containing lots of sweetly animated contortions of type synced to "Sonar Kollectiv," a cool recycled retro funktrack by Forss. Want more? See the full-length video here.



*"Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds": Kind of trippy. A video experiment in scale, condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute.



*"Universal Declaration of Human Rights": It's powerful to see this document visualized with type and other 2D animation. It was made for the Human Rights Action Center.



*There are also many, many examples of kinetic typography set to songs and movie scenes. This "Pulp Fiction" scene is one of the most popular -- but search any popular musical artist or movie, and there's a good chance someone (often a student) has made a film :)



Happy viewing!
Caitlin

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Design Chemists will Totally Appreciate

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Designing Passive Aggressive Notes

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Introducing:

The CMYK Pen
(it's just an idea for now)