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by Julie Hirschfeld, Stefanie Barth, Andrea Codrington, Peter Hall

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Accession 9783927258822 ISBN 9783927258822 Publisher Gingko Press

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1. **Motion Graphics as a Distinct Design Discipline**
The book establishes motion graphics — encompassing broadcast design, music video, film titles, animation, and experimental 3-D graphics — as a field in its own right, synthesising moving image with graphic design principles. It traces how the discipline emerged and evolved from the widespread adoption of television onward.

Connect to books about: graphic design history, visual communication, broadcast design, title sequence design.

2. **Time, Motion & the Moving Image**
Unlike static graphic design, motion graphics are inseparable from time — the work only exists as it unfolds. The book implicitly interrogates what it means to design *across* time rather than *on* a surface, and how duration shapes meaning.

Connect to books about: film theory, animation theory, temporal aesthetics, cinema and perception.

3. **Technology & the Democratisation of Design Tools**
The book charts how the ready availability of desktop editing and compositing software transformed who could create motion graphics, shifting production from broadcast studios to individual designers and small studios.

Connect to books about: digital tools and creativity, desktop publishing, software culture, post-production technology.

4. **The Convergence of Film, Animation & New Media**
The book presents video design as a dynamic synthesis of film, animated graphics, and new media — dissolving the boundaries between previously separate creative industries and practices.

Connect to books about: intermedia art, digital cinema, new media theory, hybrid arts practice.

5. **Global Visual Culture & International Design**
Contributing artists span the US, UK, France, Germany, Holland, Japan, Scandinavia and beyond, framing motion graphics as a genuinely international creative language rather than a nationally specific practice.

Connect to books about: global design, cross-cultural visual communication, contemporary international art, creative industries worldwide.

6. **Music Video, Broadcast & Commercial Visual Culture**
Much of the work surveyed comes from music television (MTV, VH1) and broadcast contexts, situating motion graphics firmly within commercial popular culture and the visual economy of entertainment media.

Connect to books about: music video history and aesthetics, broadcast culture, MTV and media, pop culture and visual identity.

7. **Experimental & Avant-Garde Graphics**
Alongside commercial work, the book examines experimental motion graphics and abstract 3-D work, connecting the field to a longer tradition of avant-garde animation and non-narrative moving image art.

Connect to books about: experimental animation, abstract film, video art, avant-garde visual art.

8. **Design Criticism & Contextualisation**
Rather than functioning as a pure portfolio showcase, the book includes critical essays and a historical timeline, framing individual works within broader visual and technological trends — treating motion graphics as worthy of serious design criticism.

Connect to books about: design writing and criticism, visual culture studies, design history methodology, the critical analysis of popular imagery.

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