Smashing Magazine have put together yet another amazing trawl of motion graphics. This is a great reference for students, especially for my third year Visual Communication students who will be working on a title sequence project for IADT undergraduate films in March 2009. We have worked on this project every year for the last five years with increasing success and I hope to update the our programme website with a ‘best of’ compilation of the students work shortly. It is possible to view some of the students work on their individual portfolio websites here.

Massive Attack, Royal Festival Hall from jbarahona on Vimeo.

This video backdrop for Massive Attack was created by United Visual Artists. Its MA’s most explicitly political piece yet and includes references to rendition flight numbers etc. The message is both visually and semantically powerful, and expertly sychronised to the music.

The Helvetica fever continues, via a Helvetica theme for your Google Reader. Another way for keeping your life tidy and adhering to the modernist way…

Another useful tool for layout grid creation. This one is by Tom Genoni. Its good because it is purely visual so you can see the impact of changing measurements instantly. Very useful for comping website layouts.