The advent of new software and the blurring of disciplinary boundaries have given rise to an entirely new creative category—motion graphics. Motion by Design is the first combined book and interactive DVD package to present the works of some of the world’s leading motion graphic studios. The book showcases new work by over 30 international studios, grouped according to genre: Opening Credits, Commercial/Installation and Web, each introduced by a leading motion graphic designer: Garson Yu, Why Not Associates and Hillman Curtis. A main introduction provides a history of motion graphics and a glossary explains the key terms. The accompanying DVD contains not only full samples and reels of almost all of the featured work, but also an interactive historical timeline tracing the development of notion graphic styles. Most importantly, these impressive works will be represented in their element—in motion.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
it's ok, May 28, 2008
By
Dsazzy1 (Chicago)
Good book for inspiration, but the dvd is just ok. The dvd automatically opened my Mac's dvd player at full screen - which was quite pixelated. You would have expected a dvd showcasing innovative motion graphics to look less honkey-tonk. It was as if the publishers thought about producing the dvd as an afterthought.
Great book but the dvd..., November 27, 2007
By
Mercedes (Auckland, NZ)
Great book for getting inspired, dvd was a bit off a let down the quality isn't the best. But this is a great book for people that need inspiration and admire great work.
Cool Book, Terrible DVD, June 25, 2007
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Peter LeeIf you plan to get this book for inspiration, it looks pretty good. But the DVD is almost worthless as the navigation makes it hard to watch and then the actual examples have text copyright information that is very distracting. Feels more like you paid for stock artwork but still get the white lines over the art. Very lame. There are probably some better inspiration material on the web. The packaging on this book is nice but don't expect too much in terms of content.
dont even bother, March 23, 2007
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Henry S. Birdseye (berkley, mi United States)
"Motion by Design" is a book about motion graphics. One might expect that a DVD enclosed with such a book might be chock full of tremendous examples of cool stuff. Not the case. The dvd is a mess. The disc is hard to navigate, videos play as windows within menus, NOT full screen, but that's made worse by the huge copyright super on the frames and an unanavoidable narration track. I feel ripped off by a promise unkept. Don't waste your cash on this ripoff.
very delayed reference, March 5, 2007
By
Cem Gül (Istanbul, Turkey)
qualified motion samples from all media with a short text explanation.
That's ok for me. But what's the problem with the DVD interface guys? You can not play all so you have to select each title from a long list, again again, its pain. The interface design so cheesy, low-end DVD for hi-end content. You can only watch a part of some long samples such as music videos, shame... 5 stars for the book not DVD.
