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THANK YOU has relaunched their site with a brand-spanking new 09 reel and overall juicier site! Lots of amazing work to check out.

RGD Ontario will be hosting two very interesting workshops in Toronto by Daniel Schutzsmith of the Barbarian Group and Graphic Define:

Starting a Design Business Bootcamp
Attracting New Business Bootcamp for the Designer

Hope to see you there.

Digup is an independent editorial project. It’s a video documented review on digital design, accessible to non-specialists. Digup is led by a team of French interaction designers and documentary makers. Some great interviews, insight and inspiration.

Graphic design and Art Direction from Barcelona : István Szugyiczky (via The Strange Attractor).

David Fincher and Blur Studio have optioned the CG animated film The Goon by Eric Powell. Here is a first look.

WOW! Have you seen the line-up at KL Design Week? Five full days of some of the most impressive speakers going. And all hosted in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. KL Design Week is their inaugural festival inwhat i am sure will become a successful annual event. STUDIO4℃, Stefan Sagmeister, Umeric, Tokyoplastic, Troika, Hue Visual Labs, Chris Bosse, David Carson, IdN … just to name a few.

New work from The Core’s Chris Hoffman; Trailer for newZonia; “newZonia needed a piece that expresses creative and inspired imagination. Coming up with the planets was the most fun part… Each planet needed to represent a channel of creativity, music, film, gaming, print media and so on.”

Toronto based Alchemy (helloalchemy.com) have uploaded new projects … check out their 08 reel too.

TODESIGN is a team of italian designers who produce forward thinking interior design. TODESIGN conceives walls, ceilings and floors as wide canvases on wich they artistically design spaces devoted to living through multi-faceted methodologies, processes and materials, such as personalised wallpapers, vynil, cloths or more precious manual paintings

New reel up for San Francisco based freelancer Adam Patch.

Toronto based The Juggernaut launched a new site and 2009 reel.

Aduana is the portfolio of Madrid based Art Director Kike Besada. Alot of great interactive designfor Absolut, Diesel, Nokia, Mercedes + many more.

New site, reel and personal works up at Mutual Friend, showcasing the talent of Chicago freelance motion designer Aaron Kemnitzer.

Buenos Aires based Superestudio develops motion and design for TV branding, commercial spots and audiovisual productions. They recently launched this spot for the AXN Film Festival, which won a PROMAX/BDA LATAM Gold Award for Promo ID. Lots of other great work to check out as well including their reel.

The always impressive Syndrome Studio updated with several new projects including this spot for New Balance : Candy Collection.

Adrian Lawrence updated his site with plenty of great new motion work and boards.

Blue Vertigo has updated its fourth annual focus on Argentinian Motion Graphics. Great resource for inspiration.

As part of their launch of the MTV Oooh rebrand, MTV commissioned Amsterdam based PostPanic to write, direct and produce a short film encompassing the attitude of MTV Oooh. Post Panic was given complete creative freedom to propose whatever style and subject the preferred. Director Mischa Rozema decided to make this short film inspired from a piece of paper found on the street on which someone had written, “Here, I’m alive. I’m everything all of the time”.

deisgn mind Motion Issue; a stop-motion promo from Frog Design for their Motion Issue of design mind.

Founded by Sean Rodwell, the Aeiform studio works extensively in the field of image making on a range of advertising, fashion, music and editorial projects.

Talented Nexus director, Celyn, has created a heart-warming spot with a chilling message for WWF; Because We’re All Connected. Celyn: “The World Wildlife Fund wanted something informative and entertaining, the aim was to give the message of the animation a universal appeal but with children carefully considered. I wanted to construct a colourful and engaging world for children that has some of the magic that I enjoyed myself as a child. The music too also reflects a little nostalgia for classic BBC children’s shows and adds a real warmth.”

Founder of Transistor Studios, Jared Plummer has launched a new studio: HAUS. “We do mograph and live action but aslo have a strong focus on design, in particular interactive and integrated.” I can’t imagine how this is not the way of the future. Integrating broadcast talent with interactive and integrated. Great site and work to check out.

All new site and reel up at Marcos Ceravolo’s site Bocamtion.tv. Impressive motion and boards to check out.