Another interesting animated type/design job. This time, a 30th anniversary “thank you” from Teradata to their customers. This time out, the concept I developed was that of a “perfect circle” between client and company. This feedback loop is what has kept Teradata ahead of the competition for 30 years. As a design element, this “perfect circle” became the “O” (or the zero) in every animating phrase. Another nice touch developed...
I had a weird dream. Brewster McCracken was elected mayor, and it was all because of my little video. ๐ No, but seriously, this was just something I felt I had to tinker with off-and-on for a few weeks and then scramble to finish right at the deadline for Brewster’s “Your City โ Your Vision โ Your Ad” competition. Then it won! The coolest thing about it: local film/game heroes...
Update: No one should do business with Chad Peevy under any circumstances. This jerk still hasn’t paid me in full for this animation, yet he’s used it on his website promoting new business for the last three years! Warning. Stay away! A talented artist/designer friend of mine (and fellow colleague from my Teshler ad-agency days) Luis Figallo recently called me in to help usher in a re-branded Chad Peevy Marketing...
Shortly before leaving Teshler Inc., Yuri sat down with me for 20 minutes and discussed what he thought his company was all about. I took a scribble of notes from that conversation and went away, and 24 hours later presented a one-minute typographic animation of that 20 minute dialogue. In essense, I did for Teshler what Teshler does for others. (And I used to do along with them.) Get to...