From Hollywood blockbuster to striving independent filmmaker, from mobile phone games to characters advertising products on television, from pseudo live action through to virtual environments, animation is able to transcend boundaries to reach new audiences.
This book shows how artists, designers, filmmakers, programmers, directors, writers, and producers have seized the chance to entertain using a versatile and compelling medium.
Animation in Process is not only a creative showcase exposing the best talent in the field today, but an in-depth exploration of working methods and processes that go behind the highly-polished features enjoyed today, with previously unseen material such as sketches, working drawings, storyboards, and other work in progress that documents the animators’ craft.
Andrew Selby is an award-winning illustrator and Programme Leader for the Visual Communication disciplines at Loughborough University, covering the areas of illustration, graphic communication and animation. He is also an active member of the LUSAD Animation Academy. He writes regularly for the design press.sustainable.
This book shows how packaging design has changed to meet the demands of its new context. It takes the reader behind some of the world’s best-known brands to meet the designers, clients, marketers, technologists, scientists, environmentalists and retailers, to tell their stories about the development of some of the most remarkable packs of our time. Showcasing the best packaging design from around the world and presented through new colour photography, it also features in-depth case studies of some of the most innovative design processes in the field, with interviews illustrated by details about the design.
Janice Kirkpatrick graduated in graphic design from Glasgow School of Art and in 1985 co-founded the international design consultancy Graven Images where she is Creative Director. A writer, broadcaster and lecturer, she has also curated several exhibitions including ‘The Good Buy Girl’ for the Design Museum, London, and ‘UK Style’ and ‘UK PackAge’ for the British Council.
