Overpopulation, overbearing traffic and not so good public transportation have contributed to the expansion of bike commuting in a large number of cities around the world. Such is the case of Hungary's capital Budapest, a growing city that is quickly rising in popularity. Following the requisites of what a cool city should be, Budapest locals have embraced biking as their go to transportation and KitchenBudapest's media research lab SubMap got to work on an animated data visualization of the bikers around the city. This time-lapse animated map shows all the data collected of the most tran

With all the variety of digital cameras that are available today, sometimes we forget about where things come from, and the long road technology has taken to bring us all the products that we know today. Following the 8bit graphics trend, animator Antonio Vicentini has created alongside illustrator Billy Brown a beautiful short animation of the evolution of cameras, from the early standing models to the Reflex we know today. The video itself has some beautiful illustrations that capture each camera's style with just the basic elements and vibrant colors. How many of them can you recognize, or

Some people are lucky enough to have brilliant grandparents who can tell unbelievable stories and have an immense amount of knowledge of pretty much everything, the kind of wisdom that only age can give you. That's the case of Hardy Seiler, a German graphic designer who has a very particular aesthetic and great work under his arm. This project is part of his bachelor's program and it revolves around the story of things. It's a beautiful video (although just a trailer!) that takes on the subject of all the information that is available right now because of the internet, and what we can take fro

Typophile is a community of type enthusiasts that covers everything on the topic. They've produced a series of Typophile Film Festivals, and although this opening title is a couple years old (it was released in 2009) it won't stop being amazing. It was made by a group of BYU students and faculty members, creating a fun video that appeals to all senses. It's really fun to watch, and is quite amazing to think that it was completely made without any computer generated graphics, only stop motion. These opening titles are a clear result of pure type love, each section has been carefully

I came across this beautiful Boolab Studio animation video of the human evolution. Using the stop-motion technique and basically just pen and paper, they've created a really funny and entertaining video that shows in a lovely way a pretty quick overview of our history as human beings. I specially like how the artist kind of interacts with their drawings and the non-chalant feel to it. Had to share! Via

This short video by Glen Milner was shot for the Daily Telegraph at Smith-Settle Printers, Leeds, England. It captures the process that's behind the production of a book using traditional methods. It's quite interesting to see how many people are involved in the making of these books (would you ever have thought that such lovely and well-dressed ladies would be behind book binding?) and the succession of different little tasks that have to be done and re-done to perfection to keep each book the same as the next one. And besides of being highly interesting, the video is executed in a very bea

I have to admit I have a soft spot for cartography and everything that involves visualized geography. So when I came across this animated  model of the oceans' currents made by NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, I couldn't resist not to share. What you're seeing below is a representation of the currents from the period 2006-2007 made by using an incredible amount of satellite collected data. But most importantly, how beautiful does it look? The white lines that move creating spirals or long strokes have a particular character that makes this visualization look like it came out from an exp

Letterpress printing is coming back in full force. The retro trend going on right now has brought back the old techniques as well, but many haven't seen how the letterpress process takes place. In another version of Dany Cooke's short documentaries we can learn about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier. Letterpress printing has suffered quite a bit since the surface of easier techniques, first with linotype and after that by offset printing. But luckily the use of the old crafts is havin

NASA has created a computer generated video that shows their theory of how the moon has evolved since its beginnings as a ball of fire to the satellite we know today. It's impressive to see how many changes it's had over billion years, and how the moon we know from the beginnings of humanity is actually always changing. The production of this video is also very startling, it's slow paced and shows in a fairly delicate manner how the moon was  basically bombarded for billion of years before we see it now. I'm always fascinated about these kind of representations of the aspects of our universal

Athletes from all over the world are preparing for the London's Olympics that are just around the corner (it's almost April, seriously??), and not only sports' fans can be excited about them, art lovers can expect a little treat here and there; such huge event now overtakes the entire world's attention with both competitions and related cultural events. The impressive work of Quayola and Memo Akten falls in the latter, a code-based animated video that translates the movement of athletes into deconstructed and abstract animations. The display of this videos alone are quite beautiful, but when y