The short film “Textile” was inspired by the exhibition Post War British Textiles at Copenhagen Design Museum. Gavin Edwards, the filmmaker, tells me that the idea was to bring the patterns to life with the aid of motion graphics in a dynamic and intriguing way.

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Animation from a kinder, gentler, classier time. Designed by R.O. Blechman and animated by Willis Pyle, 1996, for CBS Christmas station identification.

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It looks as if we may have inadvertently designed this storm ourselves.

Animation by University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment

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Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy is Fielding’s followup project after The Mighty Boosh. Luxury Comedy is a series of fantastical comedy sketches, all of which star Fielding.

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Superb Nasa data visualization of ocean currents. So many whorls and circular shapes and so much rapid flow along the equator. Beautiful. Also see the wind map of the USA if you haven’t already, and the satellite video of the earth at bottom.

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Animation shot at Type Bookstore, 883 Queen Street West, Toronto, Canada.

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Hiyao Miyazaki, one of my favourite filmmakers, is the Japanese director of the animated movies Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Totoro. Of all his films these three are favourite, probably because they are the most Japanese in their aesthetic.

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Almost everyone in Canada knows this animation from the National Film Board of Canada. It’s by John Weldon, 1979, with music by The McGarrigle sisters. The NFB has always been a brilliant organization, and now they’re offering Canadian films and animations for free in their iPhone app.

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This is a favourite Canadian animation about the domestic side of Armageddon. It’s by Richard Condie, National Film Board of Canada, 1985. This is not strictly design. But that doesn’t matter.

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This origami was created for Japanese shoe company ASICS by Sipho Mabona of Mabona Origami. Original video is here. Celebrating corporate advertising isn’t really our thing, but this little movie is pretty engaging and it has, not surprisingly, won many of the world’s top animation and advertising awards.

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