Animating History
Graphic Design Studio at Western Washington University
Students animated a favorite item from The Archive
First-year BFA Design students in Western Washington University’s Department of Design researched and animated artifacts from the People’s Graphic Design Archive as part of their introductory Motion Design course. Students were asked to explore an alternative graphic design history and imagine it in motion. Guided by faculty member Kacey Morrow, students integrate their research with experiments in Photoshop, After Effects, and other tools to make posters come to life.
below, left: Mia Kehoe-Roberts created an animated version of a 1988 Seoul Olympics poster, Royal Screen Pattern.
center: Myles Rhea has captured a great sense of movement from Air Jordan from Nike Poster.
right: Rowland Hartnett animated poster for a symposium at MIT American Women in Science and Engineering while keeping a great sense of geometric form.
below, left: Maya Weakley chose to animate the The magazine cover Of “China Youth” -“中国青年”.
center: Brenden Hungerford gave life to a EXPO’85, originally designed by Igarashi Takenobuin 1982.
right: Draken Leithead animated a poster of Kyoto Southern Tobacco Retailers Association 1937 “For country, security. For socializing, tobacco”.
below, left: Maia Jacobs chose to animate the fly TWA posters by David Klein, designed for travel advertisement for TWA from the 1950s–1960s.
center: Warren Langerveld animated a Gauloise Cigarettes poster from 1928.
right: Ayla Metz animated a Okuyama Taiki's poster
Gurafiku: Respect the Horizon.
below, left: Nathan Tafalla animated a Honda HR-V 1998 Advertisements poster.
center: Jake Taylor animated an important poster for International Design Exhibition Poster.
right: Milo Fisher animated a poster published between 1950 and 1990 by Educational Productions in the UK Know The Game: Weather.
below, left: Cedella Dimarcellis animated Lucky Peach, an irreverent and important food magazine.
center: Cooper Ahern created a expressive typography animation for National Parks Service Poster.
right: Robyn Pike animated a Rocky Horror Picture Show Poster.
below, left: Una Nei animated The Society of the Spectacle (2nd edition).
center: Ella Thompson has well captured the movement of “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes.
right: Sophie Apple animated Blue Album.
below: Anna Wilson recreated the collage animation of Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Beyond and Phoebe Setter created a dynamic version of an advertisement for travel.
Western Washington University Department of Design
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