I’ve always been a big fan of groovisions from Japan. This is one of a series of music videos which uses these isometric illustrations. There’s a sense of humor in the animations that’s just really well done.

To conclude my week’s stay at Design Envy, I want to leave you with a question:  How does one project motion graphics onto water? It’s not easy, that’s for sure. But Charlie Whitney and Zander Brimijoin of Red Paper Heart decided 65,000 ping pong balls would do the trick, and the result is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time.

While my interests have constantly shifted throughout my career, there are a few contemporary independent designers and animators that I continuously seek out for inspiration. One in particular is Impactist, a directing duo based out of Portland, Oregon. 

Today being New Year’s Eve—the official holiday of Time—I could not resist marking the occasion with a tribute to Christian Marclay’s The Clock.

The epic video collage is not just a piece of cool video art—it’s a fully functioning clock meticulously assembled from thousands of film clips from probably just as many movies, edited together over the course of at least as many hours, depicting every minute of the day in a seamless 24-hour sequence that unfolds in perfect synch with real time.