May 21, 2022

design companies

Lounge Lizard
Top web design and development firm. Specializes in online marketing.

Avatar New York
High-end web design, SEO and e-commerce with award winning results.

Purchase an Ad Banner for your design firm today: Click here

motion design, tv & branding

sort by date posted|sort by ABC's|sort by ZYX's

PG 1 | PG 2 | PG 3 | PG 4 | PG 5 | PG 6 | ALL |

Acrylick

From Madrid -- hot, sweaty, sexy, slow long looks through a thick fringe of dark eyelashes. The barest hint of smile is offered, till YOU smile -- then --!! The flash of sharp white teeth. That's Acrylick. You can spend hours on their website; it weaves childlike and phallic images without apology. Amazing use of color and iconography. Some annoying typos and English language glitches (fair warning for the NARROW-MINDED), but absolutely nothing is lost in the translation. Very, very cool. And, ah, did we mention hot and sweaty? And sexsexsexy? Go now. Sweat.... More

Also posted under international firms, Spain.

Acrylick

Adam Levite

An award-winning music video and commercial director, Adam has created videos for Beck, Interpol, The Stills, and many others. He is also a renowned graphic designer, covering motion graphics, interactive, print, branding and installations design. A complete creative director of the modern age.... More

Also posted under best of breed, usa based portfolios, graphic design.

Adam Levite

Addikt

Addikt, based out of Amsterdam, provides 2D and 3D animation and motion graphics for websites, film, and video. They specialize in 3D mapping of environments, which results in some pretty exciting territorial animations. You can see them all on their website. They cleerly sidestep that peksy language barrier by letting the work speak for itself.... More

Addikt

adolescent

adolescent is a New York�based motion design studio with a strong International presence, who produce very innovative, textural work. Mainly working for entertainment, music, environmental, and teen/adolescent-driven shows, their animated work has an appeal and realism to it that makes you feel like reaching out and touching the screen. Great stuff.... More

adolescent

Angdoo

Angdoo is the animation and film portfolio site of Jin Angdoo Lee, who - in a very trim 4-page format - has included direction/animation work covering spots, music video, installations and experimental films. Most of the projects were created while working at Fabrica (Benetton Communication Research Center) in Italy for the past two years. Currently, back in Los Angeles, Angdoo is thriving to find creative fun video projects and other creatives with whom to collaborate. Check it!... More

Angdoo

Atslopes

Westchester County's finest is none other than independent brand, motion, interactive and graphic designer Andrew Thompson. This self-proclaimed portfolio of "trendy stuff" shows us that Andrew has a solid understanding of the design game and knows where and how to kiss some serious butt. Yes... it's all in the irreverance, isn't it? As long as it sells, kids... as long as it sells! And that's why this great motion graphics designer with a BFA in design is looking for full time work? Please, someone snap him up quick.... More

Also posted under usa based portfolios.

Atslopes

Attik

Attik is a top notch full-service design company based in San Francisco with a great looking site, and a strong independent background (they are the designers behind all the famed NoiseLab books). Their current brand image is build around being "brand engineers", which we suppose could mean that they construct their branding work using a very technical, scientific, and methodical approach. But does that mean that they squeeze all of the emotion out of their work? Au contraire! It means they're developed the best methods to squeeze all the emotion and impact to the front of their work.... More

Also posted under best of breed, usa based firms.

Attik

B-Reel

B-Reel is a Swedish full motion and interactive design company that puts the activity in creativity. As implied by their name, they do motion design, commercials and on-air promos, but they also have been in the business of crafting cutting-edge web experiences since 1999. Much of their work is for home-based Swedish clients, but rest assured, even if you don't know the language or the clients, it all shines with top-notch multimedia interactivity.... More

Also posted under best of breed, international firms, multimedia, Sweden.

B-Reel

Bang Bang

Bang Bang is still quite new, and already the client list is a who's who of big names in the entertainment industry. Most of their work is in motion graphics -- lots of nifty little films, all at their site for your viewing enjoyment. They have, however, branched out into print -- and they seem especially proud of their design for a magazine called TEASE, which they have excerpted online. The title is appropriate. 18 and over, please. We're glad we are.... More

Bang Bang

Beehive

Since 1994, the buzz about Beehive is the work produced is as sweet as honey, and just as alluring...so much so that upcoming nest.tv has become another hive of symbiotic activity. Their silhouette style pops with the bright inquisitive colors that would attract both person and inspecting insects alike. Interactions include their silhouette profile page and a sophisticated reel that belies the cutting edge of the company. Expect the reverberations of this heightened hive to increase to swarming levels when unleashed the ad market.... More

Also posted under usa based firms.

Beehive

Blind

Are you blind? If so, my apologies (and how are you reading this?) If not, treat your eyes to a delectable visual feast. Their unseen influence is wielded in TV commercials (Nike�s �Rocketman�) as well as music videos (Jet�s astonishing �Be My Girl�). Providing a peek into their studio might relay a glimmer of inspiration for a visionary firm.... More

Also posted under usa based firms.

Blind

Bob's Your Uncle

While some motion design shops know production, and others know animation, Bob's Your Uncle knows both. Intimately. Their work for agencies, network and show producers is based on a strong brand-led approach that gets really smart results. And what a great portfolio site too—very simple, with minimal color fades... and the work is quite brilliant.... More

Bob's Your Uncle

Brand New School

With offices in New York and Los Angeles, Brand New School is a bicoastal directing collective working in all fields of commercial art. Recently the company has directed popular commercials for VW, Toyota, Target, Vodafone, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and EA Sports, and worked with agencies such as Arnold Worldwide, Wieden+Kennedy, TBWA\Chiat\Day, DDB and JWT. The company has also helmed viral ads and music video clips that earned MVPA nominations and even took home the MVPA for Best Visual Effects of 2005. In addition to branding, consulting and design, the company�s award-winning work has aslo included writing and directing popular station identifiers. The IDs Brand New School wrote and directed for VH1 Classic are still airing, five years after they were produced.... More

Brand New School

Bunch

Bunch was established in 2002 by Denis Kovac and Paulo Silva. It spread organically from London to Zagreb and then to Singapore. Talented friends joined, and they formed the multi-disciplinary design agency that is the Bunch of today. Bunch's focus is on the creation of intelligent and consistent brands for a diverse range of international clients. One of their cool side projects was inviting 100 graphic designers to re-invent and mess with their logo in a side-site called Made in Bunch.... More

Also posted under international firms, graphic design, Croatia.

Bunch

Charlie Company

Creating a brand imprint for a product is one thing, but for a TV show? That's like creating history, and we suppose that's what Charlie Company does, since they've created intros for such shows as...Celebrity Mole and Joe Schmoe. (Okay, so it's not exactly the opening credits to M*A*S*H.) Charlie takes design, applies it to branding, adds some motion, stirs it all up, and produces 'conceptually motivated ideas with contemporary and progressive design.' In other words, nifty commercials that stick in your head.... More

Charlie Company

Cisma

Cisma bridges the gap between fine art and commerce with a refreshing emphasis on the former. Their concise web site employs an elegant and nearly impenetrable font. And we wish they'd lend us that giant Hammer & Tongs-ish stuffed tooth that adorns their site's illustration gallery -- that thing is freakin' cute.... More

Also posted under international portfolios, illustration, Brazil.

Cisma

Cleo Buro

True or False: Art directors are a dime a dozen? Well, definitely FALSE when you see it from where we are sitting. From things printed, to animated to interactive, we were pleasantly surprised to see the wealth of work in this single designers' portfolio. His selected works show a sure command of multiple medias, and the work itself is bold, clean, professional and comes with just the right touch of tongue-in-cheek playfulness to make this one superbly rounded indy designer... err... art directors portfolio. Impressive.... More

Also posted under best of breed, graphic design, France.

Cleo Buro

Conclave Obscurum

Photographic "fantasmagoria" at its finest. A prelude to a newly-redesigned website offers enough weird eye candy and interactive video vignettes to keep the most discerning surrealist smiling -� albeit in a twitchy, mentally-deranged sort of way. Simply put: these folks offer fine examples of twisted art. We can only hope the Slipknot CDs and prints of Ren� Magritte (yes, there is an alternative to Dali) can keep us tweaking until Conclave Obscurum III comes along.... More

Also posted under illustration, Russian Federation.

Conclave Obscurum

David Navas

Quite a powerful talent, David Navas has created a number of intriguing minimalist illustrations and art pieces. But not content with mastering just one medium, his recent work has also covered animation, videos and motion graphics for television channels including MTV, Mun2 and The Locomotion Channel. His illustrations, comics and photographs have been published in the U.S., Mexico and Argentina, and his work has carried him between Europe and the U.S., to where he currently resides in New York City.... More

Also posted under illustration.

David Navas

De Facto Design

The fact-o's about De Facto, are that while they appear to specialize in print design, their true strength is their ability to effectively take branding projects and translate them across all forms of media. In fact-o, this is a creative group of graphic design purists, who can execute any style cleanly. Their portfolio showcases an innate ability to tackle all forms of advertising, marketing and promotion... got that, Jack-o?... More

Also posted under international firms, graphic design, United Kingdom.

De Facto Design Nottingham

DixonBaxi

Über talented motion design firm based in London founded by two award winning directors, has updated it site from the olden golden... If you've ever turned on a TV, you've seen their work, which has included such wonders as "helping MTV find its balls again" to the on screen graphics of Formula 1 racing sports. Truly, not enough can be said about the work of this duo, and perhaps enough has already been said. Check out the work, and let the images do the talking.... More

Also posted under branding & advertising, United Kingdom.

dixonbaxi

Doubleyou

Oh how sweet it is! Sublime design presented in a fun and distinctive format. The introduction to this Spanish company is a playful example of the technological skills that have earned this firm the numerous awards that bounce across their intro page. The expertly planned and yet seemingly spontaneous works section holds a collection of unique web and print designs ranging from logotype to TV commercials with only one consistency � superb execution. In layman�s terms� They rock.... More

Also posted under best of breed, multimedia, Spain.

Doubleyou

Dstrukt

Dstrukt is the edgy portfolio of a skilled motion designer, photographer and director — originally hailing from Manchester, UK. Inspired by movie titles and with a background in both online and traditional media, Dstrukt (or "Chris") produces work for a number of high end clients scattered globaly including MTV Networks Europe, Channel 5, BBC, Vodafone, Discovery Channel and VH1. Chris is also regularly featured in design and industry publications, such as Computer Arts, IdN and Stash whilst presenting at design conferences around the world. Great work!... More

Also posted under United Kingdom.

Dstrukt

EatPES

Home of the twisted films of PES, this is an amazing catalog of fantastic short films by video artist PES (and company). Mostly using everyday objects, and stop-motion "filmography" with outstanding editing, PES turns the everyday into the extraordinary. Imagination is at a premium here. Explore and be delighted!... More

EatPES

Elro

Elro provides cutting edge media content, from the simplest Flash animation to Jurassic Park-style dinosaurs. Well, maybe not that cutting edge -- but Elro's site does emphasize their 360ok design department, which provides 3D models for pretty much any sort of application your heart may desire. Want an interactive automobile model in three dimensions to grace your homepage? They can probably provide it. Want as awesome Flash-based movie promoting Legos? You're in luck, because they've already provided it. It's called Brickolizer, and it's the bees knees -- check it out, along with the rest of their swell portfolio.... More

Also posted under usa based firms, multimedia.

Elro

Fake-Up

An interactive and motion production studio, with a powerful obsession to detail. They create interactive design, motion graphics and 3D. Pretty much anything with pixels and key-frames... And also some great viral campaigns.... More

Also posted under usa based firms, multimedia.

Fake-Up

Filmtecknarna

Filmtecknarna is a Stockholm animation group that wows Europe regularly with its award-winning commercials and music videos. Many of these are on the web site, so you can see for yourself. Very MTV influenced, very bold, in-your-face stuff. Great animation, too. In a few years, these guys will be appearing in the nightmares of the major executives at Disney and Dreamworks. In fact, considering how many nightmares those people must have, Filmtecknarna is probably already there.... More

Also posted under international firms, Sweden.

Filmtecknarna

Friend of a Friend

Down-right dirty, but right to the point, this is a portfolio site that takes a back-yard approach. Wheel in the pick-up truck of links on this single page wonder, and you'll basically get direct project URLs, a bunch of motion videos, shorts, and a reel of their work. Simple and sans information, this dusty minimal approach gets high marks for originality, verve, and kudos for just not giving a damn (but underneath it all, showing they really do). Brilliant.... More

Also posted under usa based portfolios.

Friend of a Friend

Georgiew

The new online portfolio of Bulgarian-born photographer and music director Nikolaj Georgiew, this site catalogs nearly an hour of music video clips, more than 200 photos, and many more little additions. Quite a nice home for this over-achieving creative working in Germany, who began doing photography for music, fashion and sports, but has now moved into doing music videos, commercials and photo campaigns.... More

GEORGIEW photography | film

h4che

In the world of online freelance designers Jorge Calleja's portfolio stands tall as tour-de-force in interactive Flash, 3D design and motion graphics. His work for some of the top new media firms like Juxt, Exoplolis and Group W consists of only the cream of the crop projects. Apparently, whatever this proudly Mexican designer/artist gets his hands on, turns into bright, multimedia gold.... More

Also posted under best of breed, usa based portfolios, Flash specialists, multimedia.

h4che - Jorge Calleja

Hello, Logan

A production company founded by Alexei Tylevich and Ben Conrad, Logan adopts the singular pseudonym in a guise similar to the various hip hop/dance music acts they identify and work steadily with. With several top notch music acts (no need to namedrop, ), their roster list is deep but their reel only allows a few tasty samples...with their flash patterns and 80�s flair. Just like the music biz they work with.... More

Also posted under usa based firms.

Hello, Logan

Hello/Bye

Hello/Bye is a very nice minimal portfolio of video artist and music director Sun An. The work itself is very rich and provocative, and ranges from hand-drawn typography to music videos for MTV2. There's a subtle undertone and beauty to the work and music that evokes a sophisticated mood and feeling... almost like a moment of understanding between two passing strangers. Hello/Bye, indeed. Quite impressive.... More

Hello/Bye | Sun An

Humanot

Definitely one of the more exceptional portfolios of 2007, from top to bottom it will surely blow you away with high quality design. Originally a Film & Animation student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, John Slabyk shines brightest when creating identity and logo designs. But, as you could guess, he also produces high-impact motion designs, print, sports-team logos, and just some of the crispiest websites around. We could spend a few days in here disecting this marvel of work... but we could never, ever imitate it.... More

Also posted under best of breed, usa based portfolios, graphic design.

Humanot - Portfolio of John Slabyk

INTERspectacular

Luis Blanco and Michael Uman two wild and funny guys! They are the warped brains behind the award-winning design and concept studio INTERspectacular. Mostly focusing on character development, and motion branding, they are the creative force behind Comedy Central's recent network identity redesign—in which they introduced edgy MTV-esque interstitials and station IDs. Meaning, they basically get to cut loose and design the craziest stuff they can imagine. Today, they are creating print and broadcast projects for some of the world's most engaging brands, from Volvo to Virgin Mobile.... More

Also posted under graphic design, multimedia.

INTERspectacular

LAMBO

LAMBO is small studio production house for top-tier TV ads, interstitials, trailers and TV ID's. And actually, LAMBO is just a couple people with a full in-house photo and video stage, sound studio and workstation. Their work is highly professional, funky (yet commercial), and they are fully capable of any size job, large or small. Feast your eyes on this impressive real, and perhaps realize (or in our case; dream) that if they can do it... you can do it yourself too! Impressive.... More

LAMBO

Lucid Inc.

Lucid is a multimedia-based creative studio making non-fiction, story based advertising, brand communications and documentary films. Their portfolio features interesting video and story work most recently for clients such as BlackBerry, Dentsu and Nokia. Their site features a digital-newspaper style site with nibblet-sized contrasting typography. Very nice.... More

Lucid Inc.

Mashinima

We're not quite sure what Mashinma does; we can assume that Grupo Audiovisual means that they're a firm which works in multimedia; Illustracion means they do Illustration; Print and Web mean, well, print and web. So apparently Mashinima does everything, and to prove it they have a site with no English but plenty of eerie imagery -- stone cherubs that change colors, futuristic citsycapes, flowers that bloom out of nowhere. It's one of the loveliest sites we've seen. But, um, we're still not too clear on what they're all about.... More

Also posted under graphic design.

Mashinima

Milky Elephant

Milky Elephant is a professional collective of three unique design artists based in New York. This collective consists of Karl Ackermann, Eun-Ha Paek and Mumbleboy (a.k.a. Kinya Hanada), who together make installations, games, illustrations, music videos, animated series, and artistically inspired designs. They work on an eclectic variety of funky projects spanning from toy design to viral interactive e-postcards that you've probably helped spread. Very quirky, often miniture and cute, it seems like they have a niche around being silly and youthful, which also shows in the variety of mediums they like to craft their projects (everything from coin purses to TV interstitials). Also check out The Milky Shop, the cool pink retro nav (that we really like) and the sites of the three design artists.... More

Also posted under usa based portfolios, multimedia, illustration.

Milky Elephant

Modernista!

Founded in 2000, Modernista! is an accomplished ad agency that focuses on what they call "the big ideas". What is a big idea? Well, you may have seen their H3 Hummer ads running on a certain small sports show called the Superbowl, or perhaps on the streets of NYC in the form of oversized black and white outdoor posters for Napster. Eitherway, one can tell from their successful projects that Modernista! injects a bit of art into each of their endeavours... Therefore contrary to common advertising ideas, they look beyond the staus quo to help change your mind, intead of just trying to please it. M! is a truly progressive brand and ad agency, who also happen to update their online presence each year. One to watch.... More

Also posted under branding & advertising.

Modernista!

Instead of building out actual web pages, Modernista skipped right to the web results by building "hot links" directly to google, flikr portfolios, wikipedia descriptions, and facebook pages (no myspace or friendster - they really are forward thinking!). Yes, Modernista! has done the unthinkable for a web firm, although in a way, it's a logical progression for an agency showing they "get" online media and web 2.0. The only drawback to this approach is that these pages, which are maintained on other sites, and are subject to breaking down.... More

Also posted under usa based firms.

Modernista

Motica

A young motion design studio dedicated to audiovisual, artistic and commercial graphic design. The artists hail from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and launched this nascent portfolio presentation in 2007. Impressive reel for a this collective group of three graphic designers with ten years of experience in various post production studies.... More

Also posted under international portfolios, Argentina.

Motica

Motion Theory

Top end developers of videos (Beck, Velvet Revolver, R.E.M.) and TV commercials (HP, Lenovo, DirectTV), Motion Theory creates cutting edge work at the convergence of filmmaking, design, animation, and visual effects. The company�s live-action directors, designers, animators, and artists craft a wide range of memorable, inventive work. We quite enjoyed the sneaker commercials (Nike, Reebok), which mix together music, urban scenes and animated illustrations.... More

Motion Theory

Nagi Noda

Famous across Asia and the West for her analog music videos, art and creative direction, Nagi Noda recently passed away at age 35 from complications after a car accident. Her work brought her from Japan to NY, most recently being signed to Partizan as a music video and commercial director. Her avant garde explorations in the digital and analog mediums were as powerful and symbolically rich in metaphor, as in their impact. Here are some more links: A news article, A fashion video, Her fashion line, A short film.... More

Also posted under best of breed, international portfolios, multimedia, Japan.

Nagi Noda

Perish Factory

The home studio of music video designer "Lung". Some great bit-mapped video art and animation. Especially the soundboard video for Bomb the Bass. A good diversion, epileptic video design. It is what it is.... More

Perish Factory

Piloto Cine TV

Piloto are obviously the rockstars of the motion design industry in Brazil and they have a spanking new portfolio site to prove it! These specialists create interstitial ads for the likes of MTV and Nickelodeon that are mostly visual, with rich illustrations and video clips that use very few words. Developed by GRAFIKONSTRUCT (another Brazilian firm specializing in web and Flash) the site exemplifies this visual nature and blends nicely with their existing style. On the one hand, we wanted this site to be a webdesign pick, but they fit very nicely under designcompanies. Enjoy the eye candy, kids!... More

Piloto Cine TV

Post Panic

Say you're an advertising exec in charge of a new commercial campaign. Say your deadline is approaching and you haven't accomplished anything yet. Say you panic. After that, you might do well to turn to Post Panic. You check out their website, are impressed by their showreel of films and commercials made for clients like Nike and Nikon. The firm's in Amsterdam, but this is the Cyber Age, after all. Say you get a raise. Go you!... More

Also posted under Netherlands.

Post Panic

Project Film and TV

Project Film & TV is a high-end production studio focused on broadcast film and video, and their site reflects a specific design theme as a single part of a comprehensive marketing communications program designed by Dept3.... More

Project Film and TV

PSYOP

While we're at it... why not go all the way with the flat illustrated style and use it in video motion? Surely, this fantastic design organization, "Psychological Operations", can light the way. We especially liked 'Come Brazil'.... More

PSYOP

REZN8

Founded in 1987, REZN8 was an early-comer to the digital revolution, and is on a mission to create "emotion and wonder in the mind of the beholder." The Harvey Entertainment's Looney Tunes web site will surely do that, as well as Landmark Entertainment's "Prehistoric Chicago 3-D Ride Simulation Film" (complete with dinosaurs). REZN8 covers the gamut of broadcast, TV commercials, large-screen trailers, and web sites. We felt like kids in a...cartoon store. Mom! Oh Wow! Lookit THIS! AWEsome!... More

REZN8

Ringside Creative

This high energy video house based in the Detroit area sports a promotional site in line with their "knockout" brand theme. The high impact homepage immediately showcases over 35 different reels, and was designed to immediately impress a viewer with the breadth of styles and effects offered by Ringside's creative team. Nice site and great reels covering videos, car companies and consumer stores.... More

Also posted under branding & advertising.

Ringside Creative

Rolito Land

From the devilish mind of Rolito comes a series of skewed animated clips worthy of their own independent film channel. With alien saucer sombreros and dogs with visible bladders, the fun on the site is superb and worthy of a call to Tim Burton. Sadly, said figures make navigation somewhat cumbersome and inconsistent, making us wonder if we actually got to see all the �delicious vectorial poisions� Rolito claims to be brewing.... More

Also posted under illustration.

Rolito Land

Sakebomb

Ridiculous, sexy, thrasher types with a soundtrack for everything (or so they would have you believe), Sakebomb had the honor of crafting the Jackass the Movie web site. Mean Girls, too. They keep online journals and post them as portfolio pieces. They exaggerate. They are foul-mouthed. They consort with Angelina Jolie and tint all their graphics red. They put things in motion, especially skateboard punks and BMX bikers. The highlighted "original work" will have you playing the "Pornstar or Meteorologist" game (just invent a name and rotate hairstyles every five years).... More

Sakebomb

Sarkissian Mason

Sarkissian Mason is an accomplished full service media agency with three offices across USA. Establised in 1998, SM's big clients (at the moment of this posting) are Mazda and Boeing, for whom they've conceived video-rich, innovative online promotions—featuring some pretty slick technological additions. Additionally their new full-screen video portfolio works pretty well; it's clean and easy to use above all else. In the end, this is a well-awarded and respected firm whose work is constantly pushing technological barriers, so we look forward to featuring some of their sites in our Webgallery in the years to come.... More

Also posted under best of breed, usa based firms.

Sarkissian Mason

Schematic

Schematic is a top agency who value their success in their ability to be cross-disciplinary, and by excelling equally at a network of interwoven fields. They specialize in everything from strategy to QA, copy writing to design, and technology to user experience. In other words, everything a great agency needs to keep expanding in today's advanced new media marketplace.... More

Also posted under best of breed, usa based firms, multimedia.

Schematic

Shynola

Here we go�another shy introvert trying to change the world. Based out of the UK, Shynola�s concentration of material stems from mostly video and music accompaniment. These visionaries demonstrate an utter lack of fearlessness reminiscent of their shyness-implying handle. Far from cautious, they represent an intriguing portrait of confrontational, hard-pressing brushstrokes that is the shining beacon for the art/media merger movement.... More

Also posted under international firms, United Kingdom.

Shynola

Special Blend

Special Blend is a unique creative studio specializing in editorial and production for the entertainment and corporate industries. They create a product that blends in their own influences and creative style with their clients marketing and demographic needs, with positive results.... More

Special Blend

SPG LAB

SPG LAB is a live action design company that creates content for ads and video marketing. This space serves mainly as a portfolio for Philip Shtoll, covering his many roles as director, designer, animator, editor, photographer and producer. When it comes to making motion video designs, Mr. Shtoll appears to be the jack of all trades, and his deep portfolio reads like a library of commercial work.... More

SPG LAB

Stay Honest

Honestly, Honest is at the forefront of the new archetype in advertising and design, blending the subversive and the ideal solution all in one. And the easy going folks at Honest cover it all. They've got their print ads and web sites, which are all fine and good, but what is really exciting are their short films and commercials, commissioned by the likes of Diesel, Nike, the band The Gorillaz, and more. What happens when graphic design sensibilities are transposed into short works of cinema? Try downloading a few, and we think you'll agree that the results are awesome. Stay true to Honest, and you'll be surprised with the outcome.... More

Also posted under usa based firms, graphic design.

Stay Honest

Sticks + Stones

Charaterized by storytelling, eclectic casting (like monkeys) and natural performances, the commercials made by this agency usually leap off the TV screen. And to compliement that, the site for this commercial production company site really makes good use of the black background, displaying powerful, yet minimal images and fonts, that grab the attention of the viewer and beckon them on. We really enjoyed their reels, but especially their video game reel, where they showcase truly eye-popping motion graphic skills.... More

Sticks + Stones

studio aka

Construction paper cutouts and �primitive� pen marks run rampant at the studio aka site. Some nice illustrations, but after perusing the sample pages, we have to say, um, "been there, done that." Sure, they've won awards, but if the London based production company doesn�t inject a little variety (and reach out from the UK), their days may be numbered. That being said, they can probably use the �singular style� style for identity recognition, aka "branding."... More

Also posted under illustration, branding & advertising, United Kingdom.

studio aka

Studio Dialog

The Studio Dialog website is a great showcase of motion and design work using dynamic movement, yet tempered by practical interaction. Representing their portfolio in this format reflects a passion for design and embodies the multidisciplinary frame of mind of this studio. We really liked was the ease of navigation, and the full-screen "drawing board" style presentations of the projects. Very professional display that exudes firm control over their projects and how they present them online. Quite impressive, and dynamic motion work overall.... More

Studio Dialog

Tavo Ponce

Hailing "hola" from Spain, Tavo Ponce is a superb motion graphics designer whose projects are rich, unique, colorful and very beautiful to behold. The structure and beauty of his work is quite striking, spans several different styles – from urban street to minimal – and are of top notch quality and masterfully refined. Holler!... More

Also posted under international portfolios, Spain.

Tavo Ponce

The Rock Collection

You know you're a talented graphic designer when you create a 3-page website, plaster in a bunch of huge jpeg samples of your work, and don't even bother to put in a back button. It's like... who needs a website with navigation when the work speaks for itself... and your browser has a 'back' button embedded in it anyway? Well, this is one of those special occasions where it truly doesn't matter, because in the personal portfolio of Philippe Richardson, the illustration work and stills of broadcast commercials (some with Quicktime movies) will blow you away, and you won't even notice you're sitting at your desk anymore, much less which direction you want to navigate (besides simply scrolling up and down... over and over and over again).... More

Also posted under usa based portfolios, illustration.

The Rock Collection

This is my wall

Somewhere in Europe, perhaps near Spain, a newly painted brick wall is jealous of this wall. Yes, it is. But this is Rafa's wall so he puts what he wants on it. And in our opinion, this print and motion video art director can paste up, glue, tack or stencil whatever he wants to his wall. Because this virtual cork-board is truly the complete portfolio experience. It comes with large tear-off sample sheets and built-in Flash transitions that work seamlessly to create a great window into an immersive portfolio that we haven't seen produced quite as well anywhere else. That's why we are telling you... Other walls are getting jealous!... More

Also posted under international portfolios, Spain.

This is my wall - Rafa Pavon

Trollback and Company

Emmy-winning title sequences, as well as some of the most effective print work we�ve seen, move through T + Co.�s very fine website. The Nike Butterfly ad does make us want to buy the shoes. More impressively, however, The Lifetime Channel branding makes us wish we actually watched. Conclusion: this company works miracles.... More

Also posted under branding & advertising.

Trollback and Company

TwoThousandStrong

Lights! Camera! Action! 2D, 3D, music, visuals, voice overs, and sound-- they do it all! While TwoThousandStrong has the strength to pump up movies, theater, song, dance, sports, and television series, their themes run slightly on the side of the macabre (quiet images, reverse lighting, dark and light contrasts) -- perfect for those National Geographic specials about lost ancient artifacts. Their packages are quite impressive. Their commercials talk. Literally.... More

TwoThousandStrong

U.F.O. | Mathematic

Mathematic is a French motion design studio based in Paris, which provides post production services and art direction to production houses. In 2006, they launched U.F.O., which is their own production label... This allows them to direct their own work, which as they tell us, has always been the aim of this strong team of designers. So, check out some of the spots they've created, and 'njoy the eclectic work from this talented and funky creative group.... More

Also posted under France.

U.F.O. | Mathematic

Viela

Jamie Alvarez Sobreviela is a Madrid based freelance designer and director. His work evolves around art direction, direction, broadcast and personal projects. Along with a small sampling of sketches, we find that Jamie's main strength is his motion work which is both delicate, modern and professional looking. Jamie has studied digital design since 2000, and more recently moved into film and direction. Clean and classic.... More

Viela

We are A2/17

Hmmm... A2/17. Not exactly the most descriptive name (sounds more like my flight and gate number). So, where to take off and describe this collective of 4 German multimedia artists? Well, they are composed of 4 different types of directors, animators, stop-motion, 2D and 3D artists. So, any visit to A2/17 means you have to visit the sites of: Hendrik Niefeld (concept, direction and animation), Egmont Mayer (3D stop motion artist), Frederik Ring (direction, animation and illustration), and Stefan Schomerus. They are directors. They are designers. They are animators. They are 3D. They are 2D. They are stop motion. Now we understand! They are A2/17... flight boarding now.... More

Also posted under multimedia, Germany.

We are A2/17

Xururu

Xururu must mean: Impressive. Simple, yet bold. Jusging from their client portfolio, this company does a lot more than just deliver the goods. This company, simply put, ROCKS.... More

Also posted under international portfolios, graphic design.

Xururu

Zoecom

Specializing in 3-D animation, video, and interactive works, Zoecom also has tendencies towards web design for fashionistas. Their style tends towards the techno-futuristic, tempered by the occasional cartoon and lots of gradient color. The online portfolio, while sometimes prone to error messages, shows off work for some interesting clients like "Hercules the TV Series" and Hanna Barbara/UNICEF.... More

Zoecom

PG 1 | PG 2 | PG 3 | PG 4 | PG 5 | PG 6 | ALL |

sort by date posted|sort by ABC's|sort by ZYX's

motion design, tv & branding

about

motion design, tv & branding is...

Firms that produce motion design work and effects for film, commercials and videos. Station ids, show packages, commercial shoots, animation, 3D effects, title design, and all things relating to video and motion are considered.