Motion Graphic Design, 3rd Edition

1	a brief history of motion graphics early practices and pioneers

 

“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 artist-animators of our century. They are the undiscovered treasures of our time.”

—Cecile Starr

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 industry, the development of animated film titles in the 1950s established a new form of graphic design called motion graphics. ...