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What Is Motion Design?
What Is Motion Design?

From the dawn of cinema to Saul Bass to Digital Hollywood in 600 seconds.

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Stefanie Posavec on Her Obsessive Analog Data Visualization
Stefanie Posavec on Her Obsessive Analog Data Visualization

Inside the brain of one of today’s most creative information patternists.

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All Nothing: Poetic 1978 Animated Allegory about Mankind’s Greed
All Nothing: Poetic 1978 Animated Allegory about Mankind’s Greed

Frédéric Back’s beautiful short film about harmony and the tragic entitlement of our species.

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Whale Fall: A Lyrical Paper-Cutout Animation about the Cycle of Life in the Microcosm of a Whale
Whale Fall: A Lyrical Paper-Cutout Animation about the Cycle of Life in the Microcosm of a Whale

75 years of existential generosity, or what the ocean floor can teach us about existence, ego and impermanence.

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s Turns 50: Celebrating Audrey Hepburn
Breakfast at Tiffany’s Turns 50: Celebrating Audrey Hepburn

One of Old Hollywood’s most charismatic personalities, captured through the affection lens of a dear friend.

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Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design
Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design

The much-awaited monumental monograph of the greatest graphic designer of all time.

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The Art of Pixar: Behind the Scenes of 25 Years of Beloved Animation
The Art of Pixar: Behind the Scenes of 25 Years of Beloved Animation

A peek inside the creative process of modern animation’s greatest gems, from sketchbook to screen.

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Spike Jonze’s Handmade Stop-Motion Love Story for Bibliophiles
Spike Jonze’s Handmade Stop-Motion Love Story for Bibliophiles

How to punch a whale, or what Dracula has to do with Faulkner and Macbeth.

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Richard Feynman on Beauty, Honors, and Curiosity
Richard Feynman on Beauty, Honors, and Curiosity

The art of uncertainty, why awards are the wrong pursuit, and how to find wonder in truth.

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Everything is a Remix: Creative Influences in The Matrix
Everything is a Remix: Creative Influences in The Matrix

Tracing the line from Doctor Who to Morpheus, or what Neo has to do with Alice in Wonderland.

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