January | 2011 | ventilate

Guilherme Marconi + team: Mountains Region Project: Rio de Janeiro

Guilherme Marconi has put together a poster series charity for the Landslide disaster on January 12th in the Mountains Region of Rio de Janeiro which resulted in many deaths and missing persons. Guilherme is from this region and saw first hand the suffering this area was dealt. Together with UrbanArts, the Projeto Região Serrana (Mountains Region Project) is being launched, where 100% of the profit will go to help the Mountain Region: urbanarts.com.br/Artistas/PRS

Many impressive artists/designers involved: Alberto Seveso, Eduardo Recife, Evgeny Kiselev, Mulheres Barbadas, Murilo Maciel, Peter Jaworowski, Radim Malinic and many many others.

Stephen Crowhurst: 2011 update

Toronto based illustrator/Art Director Stephen Crowhurst updated with plenty of great work: stephencrowhurst.com

Jurriën Boogert: Meta

Recent graduate Jurriën Boogert, based in The Netherlands, posted his graduation recent project: Meta. Lots of other impressive projects on his site as well: arjunokecil.com

Smith & Foulkes: Honda Jazz

Nexus Productions and their directing duo Smith & Foulkes, directors of the ground breaking Honda Grrr, have returned to Honda, creating another piece of animation fantasy for Wieden + Kennedy and the new Honda Jazz. ‘This Unpredictable Life’, cleverly playing out the central premise of the ad, that life is an unknowable journey. Ben Cowell, ‘Head of 3D’ at Nexus, said, “From my very first discussions about the ambitions for this project it was clear that it would be one of the biggest challenges we have faced at Nexus. When describing the vision for the environments the phrase ‘Painting with Particles’ was used on more than one occasion, often in conjunction with the word ‘epic’. Every project raises the bar for the studio; in this case we would be creating 60 seconds of epic volumetric environments rendered in HD and all of which had to be believably 3D. The studio pulled together and we are really happy with the final result.

Nexus directors Smith & Foulkes added, “The team at Wieden + Kennedy asked us to visually interpret their beautifully poetic script, a fantastic opportunity of endless possibilities that doesn’t come along very often. How can you encapsulate the unpredictable randomness of growing up, falling in love and starting a family. In 60 seconds.”

Suprmarket, Inc / Grid—A—Licious v2

From the mind of Suprb comes Suprmarket, Inc and the first release is version 2 of the insanely popular WordPress theme Grid—A—Licious.

See No Evil: February 1st

For those lucky enough to be in London:

We’ve seen the See No Evil events grow over the last year or so and its not showing any signs of slowing down … up next, this February 1st See No Evil presents an evening with Foreign Office Design, who have produced commercials for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, digital work for Apple, Coca-Cola, Sony Playstation, right up to their recent work on blockbusters such as The Queen, Children of Men and even the most recent Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.

Enrty Fee: Free!!
See No Evil – Foreign Office Design
When – Tues February 1st
Time – Doors Open 7.00pm Talk Starts 7.30pm
Where – The City Arts & Music Project 70-74 City Road EC1Y 2BJ

Emilia Forstreuter: Transmediale 2011 Trailer

Speaking of the Transmediale 2011 Festival, here is another promo, this time from Emilia Forstreuter, a Berlin based graphic and motion designer: www.emiliaforstreuter.de

Michael Fragstein: Transmediale 2011 Festival promo

Michael Fragstein is a multi-talented designer/director. This is his most recent project, a promo for the Transmediale 2011 Festival. See more of Michael’s work here (sketches) and here (co-founder)

MTV Classic

Not sure if I’m late to the party on this one, but I really like the live action element of these MTV Classic spots, by Sven Müller. Very minimal and weird (which is always awesome in my book) but they totally tell the right stories.

Carson Magazine

David Carson finally took matters into his own hands and started his own magazine. Can’t wait for my first issue.

Ken Taylor: New Site

Melbourne based Illustrator & Designer Ken Taylor updated with a new site …. Ken has worked primarily within the music industry and is predominantly well known for his striking rock posters including those for Queens of the Stone Age, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Kings of Leon, Bob Dylan & The Rolling Stones.

Brand New School: Fuel TV IDs x 5

Brand New School has been busy these past few month yeah? Personally I’m loving everything they’ve been posting … this time its five more IDs for Fuel TV:

Meet Mr. Donald Bag — Supermoto — Board Breakers Anonymous Safe Place and Focus — Pioneer

Andrew Serkin: New work

Andrew Serkin is a Russian Motion Designer and Art Director. He recently updated his site with great new works, plenty of inspiration to click through.

Andreas Works

Art Director Andreas Shabelnikov updates his portfolio with personal matte paintings and big name brand work, including a short tease of the behind the scenes of Disney’s Mars Needs Moms.

Motion Graphics Design Census 2011 + Canada

Motionographer, Bran Dougherty-Johnson and Jake Sargeant recently posted the results of the 2010/09 Motion Graphic Design Census; the first-ever salary survey for professionals in Motion Graphic Design, Animation, Visual Effects and Film-making. This survey is designed to count everyone in the industry—from owners to interns, producers, designers and animators.

Calling Canadians:

The current Census is based on U.S surveys, however Bran and team are quite interested in expanding to Canada. Anyone interested in helping collate and analyze data, someone who can act as a point person who is familiar with Canadian money differeneces, regions, etc. who can co-ordinate with the Census team should get in touch with Bran: bran[at]brandoughertyjohnson.com

Silke Sieler: Warm Signal

Silke Sieler is a Hamburger, Germany based motion designer currently working at Sehsucht. This is his most recent short film, his thesis dealing with nature, transformation and metamorphosis and its relation to visual music … beautiful work.