Stop go animation might be synonymous with such wonderful childhood plasticine creations such as Trap Door and Wallace and Gromit or recently the numerous lego based comedy videos on youtube. Some recent favourites have been Deadline (pictured above) and TXT Island.

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Whether you’re an avid movie buff, graphic design with a flare for motion graphics or a skate video maker you should have a look at The Art Of The Title Sequence. They have a huge archive of great cinematic title sequences with analysis of them, interviews with designers and directors, you can even watch most of them in brilliant HD too. If you enjoy the site be sure to subscribe to their podcast too.

Graphic design touches every aspect of our lives, mostly mediorce stuff that we don’t really acknowledge as being “designed”. However sometimes you see stuff that really stands out in the sea of boring everyday design. Recently there have been a lot of brilliant political based design works, mainly based around the US presidential elections. However I stumbled upon a short video about the hidden costs of war, have a look and learn something, or just acknowledge it as a good piece of motion graphics.