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Category Archives: Animation
Cover Art
Two years ago I shared a story about German designer Henning M. Lederer’s clever animated book covers. Now he’s back with another set of intriguing 20th century abstract cover design animations.
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, Europe, Film, Tech
Tagged book cover design, book covers, Cover Art
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The New Yorker in Tokyo
The Tōkyōiter is a brilliant project from Tokyo-based artists Andrew Joyce and David Roberts, along with a disparate group of Japanese and European illustrators. Riffing on the iconic format of The New Yorker magazine cover, they created an imaginary periodical for Tokyo incorporating … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Asia
Tagged Illustration, Magazines, New York City, The New Yorker, Tokyo
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Perspective on Transportation
You may be familiar with the brilliant work of Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Livschitz from his opening credits film for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert or his wild video Buenos Aires Inception Park, but his crazy short Perspective will blow your mind.
Posted in Air Travel, Animation, Film, Public Transport, South America
Tagged CGI, Filmmaking, Stephen Colbert
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Resist Periodically
Last January, I posted a story about RESIST! magazine, which was launched to coincide with the women’s marches against the illegitimate Trump regime. The editors Françoise Mouly and Nadia Spiegelman issued a second edition of the protest magazine on the … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Freedom of Speech, USA, Writing
Tagged Art Spiegelman, Comics, politics, Resistance
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Historical Inaccuracies
h/t Tom Gauld
It’s Still 1984
Posted in Animation, Books, Europe, Freedom of Speech, History, Writing
Tagged 1984, Animal Farm, Eric Blair, George Orwell
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Getting Your Priorities Straight
I love each and every edition of “Reading Quirks” comics. You can catch-up on the series, with illustrations by Laura Pacheco and scripts from The Wild Detective bookstore guys right here.
Little Books
British illustrators Emma Ehrling and Michael Driver created this amusing animation for Penguin Random House to promote the publisher’s imprint Vintage Minis. Cleverly summarizing twenty books in two minutes , the short film covers big subjects, with single word titles … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 