Motion Graphic Design, 2nd Edition

1 a brief history of motion graphics

early practices & pioneers

 

 

The moving image in Cinema Occupies a Unique niche in the history of twentieth-century art. Experimental film pioneers of the 1920s exerted a tremendous influence on succeeding generations of animators and graphic designers. In the motion picture film industry, the development of animated film titles in the 1950s established a new form of graphic design called motion graphics.

“It seems inevitable to me that some day, in an elegant new hi-tech museum, someone will holler out in recognition and affection: ‘Hey look, a whole room of Fischingers!’-or Len Lyes-or any of the great artistanimators of our century. They are the undiscovered treasures of our time.”

—Cecile Starr