PIXELS:
Old school 8-bit creatures assault on New York! A very clever, funny and well crafted video by Patrick Jean
This is a short by David O’Reilly, who won Cartoon d’Or with this retro-futurist psyched-out animation trip!
Anyone slightly interested in animation MUST know Hans Bacher and his blog. There’s also a marvellous book by this great production designer called “Dream Worlds: Production design for animation”. A must-read!
This is an animation short made by an Italian true talent, Donato Sansone. Concept, design and direction are so clever and full of imagination. Enjoy!
This blog is full of inspiring stuff, going from Polish editorial graphic design to Iranian children books. Each post catches me unprepared, since it succeeds in presenting something you’d never think about: for example, take a look to Iranian children books. It also has an extremely rich list of links and the news about the authors and illustrators named in the blog are always precise and exact. So, a real treasure chest!
Here you have some brilliant design lessons (unfortunately only in Italian), produced by Italian broadcasting company, RAI. They’re very interesting and clever, using the nice idea of “impossible interviews” to make some giant of graphic design talk about their aesthetics and works (i.e.: in the first lesson, there’s an impossible interview with Gropius).
This is the poster of Jim Jarmush’s latest movie, ‘The limits of control’. I haven’t watched it yet and it has no Italian distribution, but I’m quite sure Jarmush has made another fascinating work.
Head title sequence taken from ‘Vogliamo i colonnelli’ (We want the colonels), a 1973 movie by Mario Monicelli. The graphic and style are so rooted in the ’70s, but they still could be very inspiring. More info to come…
