Motion & dynamic brands

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Creative BloqAngry Birds just flapped its way into the Kelly Clarkson feud with a cheeky animated poster design Chuck shows that anything can be a marketing opportunity.

10.17

Creative ReviewWildwood: The Exhibition reveals how Laika builds stop-motion worlds There’s something slightly surreal about walking through a museum and suddenly finding yourself deep inside an enchanted forest.

10.15

It's Nice That

It's Nice ThatCan motion design have a “body language”? Studio Kiln thinks so Studio Kiln are behind motion design for MTV, Vinted, Netflix and even the Baftas, so that’s why Charlie Hockling and Nathan Smith joined our Nicer Tuesdays stage to take the audience behind the…

10.14

It's Nice That

It's Nice ThatJoanna Blémont didn’t get to a 2,000 frame animation without doing a few “bad drawings” first The V&A Illustration Awards-nominated illustrator Joanna Blémont understands the gentle balance between illustrating for big clients whilst simultaneously defining your own style – this is why she…

10.13

Graphic Design USA

Graphic Design USACreative Comment: Look Backwards For Motion Identity Andrew Vucko makes the case that the brands best equipped for this moment, and succeeding decades later, embedded motion logic long before the medium even existed.

09.26

Dezeen InteriorsIsabel + Helen showcase their "obsession with movement" with kinetic models at The Conran Shop British designer duo Isabel Gibson and Helen Chesner have filled The Conran Shop 's gallery with colourful, kinetic models for their London Design Festival exhibition, Motion Sickness.

09.21

Colour HivePoltrona Frau | Vanity Fair XC In Motion Poltrona Frau marks 40 years of In Motion with a limited-edition Vanity Fair XC featuring Ivo Pannaggi’s Futurist artwork

09.11

発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo