Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Xeni "Hussein" Jarkov: A second home in Russia for American astronauts

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Over at Coolhunting, Tim Yu has a post up about this amazing video by Seth Brau:

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , CH friend and colleague Seth Brau recently completed the rather daunting task of bringing the words to life with motion graphics. The result is on one hand elegant — using a two-tone palette, linear — and on the other an experimental take on scale, the use of typography and symbolism.

Given complete creative freedom and a little over a month's time, Seth used a mix of After Effects and Illustrator to seamlessly connect the 30 articles of the document into a captivating piece. In this case, no plan was the best plan. Seth comments, "There were times when I had no idea what I was going to do for the next section of the document. I would churn out something that I would hate but in that process I would come up with the idea, layout or imagery for something I ended up developing and liking."

View in larger size/higher-def here: www.humanrightsactioncenter.org . Created by Seth Brau, Produced by Amy Poncher, Music by Rumspringa courtesy Cantora Records. (Thanks, Susannah Breslin )