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Word as Image by Ji Lee

October 11, 2011

Ji Lee, former Creative Director at Google Creative Labs, has created this wonderful animated short to promote his new book Word as Image: The book collects together almost 100 of Lee’s illustrations. Each image is created out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself. Only the graphic components of the letters are used without [...]

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Trailer for Life and Fate

September 13, 2011

London-based creative agency Devilfish has created this fantastic Saul Bass-inspired animated trailer for a new BBC Radio dramatisation of Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate: Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant star in the eight-hour dramatisation of the book, which will be broadcast from 18 to 25 September on Radio 4. All the episodes will be [...]

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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

August 24, 2011

In this lovely animated book trailer by Matt Young for Penguin UK, author David Bellos talks about words, language and his new book Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything: (via @alantrotter who produced the video, clever chap).

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Something for the Weekend

August 19, 2011

Good Ink, a new imprint of Portland’s Scout Books, have announced a new collection called American Shorts. Each pocket-sized volume in the series pairs a contemporary illustrator with a classic American short story. The first releases are An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, illustrated by François Vigneault; Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, illustrated [...]

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A History of the Title Sequence

July 22, 2011

A History of the Title Sequence is a short film by Jurjen Versteeg. It charts the development of film title sequences by displaying the names of influential title designers in the style of their own work. In other words, it is a film about title sequences that looks like a title sequence. How great is that? [...]

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