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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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Typeface
2018Typeface Pickle-Standard both obeys and rejects the grid at the same time
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2015Tom Vek speaks about the brilliant connection between art and music
Motion
2013Patator Prod steps up with an ISNANE stopmotion for Professor Kliq
Motion
2011Moths / Synesthesiae Films
Publication
2019Editions At Play’s latest book challenges the conventions of publishing
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2019Animator Genís Rigol believes “mistakes” can open up new ways of seeing
Motion
2016Sam Pilling directs video for DJ Shadow track Nobody Speaks
Motion
2014Music Video: Markus Hofko's amazing new music video for Flying Lotus
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2011Quentin Dupieux: Rubber
Motion
2012The Best Blur Music Videos
Garment
2023Putting the multi in multidisciplinary, Alt-Border is the creative studio leaving no medium unexplored
Motion
2012Take some time and watch this alien, drug-filled video from the inimitable AG Rojas
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2022JP Bonino’s photography has gotten better and a heck load weirder
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2018Deep Throat Studio may have been borne out of failure but it thrives today
Motion
2014Film: Krishna Shenoi's alternative Gravity scene is a thing of skill and wit
Motion
2013Jake Fried produces a knockout piece of animation with the aid of coffee (literally)
Motion
2012Kahlil Joseph's short film for Flying Lotus is a sublime, emotive masterpiece.
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2019Indie imprint Pseudonym Publishing creates sharp, charming and experimental titles
Motion
2012Take that Friday morning! We look at the shapeshifting animations of one-to-watch Rhys Coren
Motion
2012Harrowingly exciting music video from the multi-talented genius that is Woodkid
Motion
2017Alex Moy’s animation explores where our minds drift off to when we’re distracted
Motion
2012Director Sam Kristofski creates a trippy video for Opossum's latest single
Motion
2014Peace terrorise a family in Ninian Doff's latest music video
Motion
2015Wahhh! An interview with Dan Deacon to celebrate his new music video
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2014Water, water everywhere – arresting VFX experiments from Lumiere Studios
Motion
2017Simeon Kondev creates Peen Zine, a bizarre series of animations (NSFW)
Motion
2022Cole Kush takes animation into the uncanny valley
Motion
2013Ex-Beta Band John Maclean demonstrates his filmmaking prowess for Django Django
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2017Adam Wells animates Love and Radio’s Dan Deacon interview through obtuse vignettes
Motion
2013Film: Shynola's dark and disturbing Dr. Easy is a real must-watch
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2008Dominic Wilcox
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201544Flavours experiments with an old airbrush machine in its latest works
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2016Antwerp-based designer Ward Heirwegh’s experimental portfolio of projects for the arts
Identity
2021Plus Mûrs is a slick and experimental studio founded on a love for collaboration, curiosity and scanners
Motion
2015Such a cool new music video for Toro Y Moi's new song
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2014Arthur Russell's Wild Combination crossed with The Muppet Movie
Motion
2017Matt Reynolds’ latest animation features ever-growing hot dog hands and grotesque storytelling
Motion
2013Django Django's video for WOR is a dangerously high-speed treat
Motion
2013Fantastic, informative animation "My Face is in Space" by the brilliant Tom Jobbins
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2018Record label Melody as Truth is carving out a woozy, spacey audio-visual niche
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2026How Lily Kong’s series Sweet Escape reignited her intuitive approach to illustration
Motion
2015At last! Björk releases her Andrew Thomas Huang-directed Black Lake video
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2018Butt Studio: Harry Butt’s multidisciplinary graphic design practice that doesn’t sit still
Motion
2016Russia-based Max Litvinov's experimental animations are a delight
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2012Walead Beshty's magnificent X-Ray-damaged photographs at Thomas Dane Gallery
Motion
2012Must watch now! Emily Kai Bock's new, dreamlike video for Grizzly Bear's Yet Again
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2008Mark El-Khatib
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2022Dive into the random, genius, alphabetically-organised world of HejHelloHalloAnnyeong’s web design experiments
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2012Documentaries, toilet humour and tribal automobiles from The Graduates 2012's Isabel Gibson
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2025Tjaša Cizej’s experimental work blurs the boundaries between the readable and unreadable
Motion
2013Not for the squeamish – Kris Moyes' surreal new video for Grizzly Bear
Motion
2019Cool 3D World on its bizarre, downright disturbing animations
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2012It's magic gang but not quite as we know it – let Lenka Clayton take you on a slowed-down journey of mystery...
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2019Joel Evey tests the visual boundaries of Gap through his “under-the-radar” work
Motion
2014Music Video: Florent Texier's cryptic animation for Xiu Xiu takes you on quite a ride
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2015Is it art? Is it design? Is it a deck of cards? Well top my trumps, it’s all three
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2012Brilliant cartoonist and experimental animator Lilli Carré is out of this world
Motion
2012A very suggestive one minute film Yeah Just There by Grant Orchard
Motion
2015Cross-dressing, guns and hirsute nudity in Skrillex' latest music video
Motion
2013The Knife return after seven years with a stunning new video
Motion
2016Tom Bunker and Pete Sharp create animation for Bonzai’s new track
Motion
2015Arcade Fire to release feature-length film from Fly-Lo director Kahlil Joseph
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"Gilbert Paper Exquisite [201674]
Identity
2026Who knew a spiral could do so much? Pentagram did, in this joyful Tokyo museum identity
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2012Don Hertzfeld: Rejected
School
1933Black Mountain College
Identity
2026aino.agency — Awwwards SOTD
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1969Spirits Unchained
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KIBLA Multimedia Centre 2002 Paganini of Typography David Carson
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2019Experimental animator Amanda Bonaiuto on building her own worlds
Motion
2014Check out this creepy new Beck video for Heart is a Drum
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2013Snorkel beverages and tongue popsicles from the mysterious Caio Lekecinskas
Motion
2015We ask Young Replicant about his stunning new Flying Lotus video
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2008Graphic Thought Facility
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2019Camille Soulat's sensitive works use digital techniques in whole new ways
Motion
2014Check out this hilarious new White Fence video set in prison
Motion
2013Sergio Calderón and Céli Lee's under-water inspired film is exquisite
Motion
2015Hiro Murai's new video for Earl Sweatshirt is shot with a thermal camera
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2015Ghostpoet's latest album cover is made of his SKIN!
Motion
2015A film starring massive rocks with eyes on opens the Pictoplasma Festival 2015
Motion
2013Film: Bompas & Parr, some exploding jelly and classical music? Sure thing
Motion
2014Film: Nadav Kander's new short is beguiling and deliciously creepy (maybe NSFW)
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2016Georgia Cranstoun’s process-driven style tests the rules of graphic design
Motion
2013Music Video: Incredibly intricate new Atoms For Peace video
Motion
2019Ellen Evans' latest film zooms into the tiny world of miniaturism
Motion
2013Daniel Sierra's thesis animation is an audio-visual barnstormer!
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2020Animator Milo Targett takes us on a wonderfully weird journey of repulsive patterns
Motion
2013Legs, bums, tums and an old people's home in Jordan Dodson's mad new video
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2024Forget brushes, Daniel Eatock is painting with rolling pins
Motion
2015The most ambitious stop motion music video ever made? Probably
Motion
2012Dark and broody new video here from The xx, directed by Young Replicant
Motion
2020Laura Jayne Hodkin’s new video wants you to have a good time “without being overly cheesy”
Motion
2013Music Video: The fantastic animated video for the new single by Arctic Monkeys!
Motion
2019A tiny pink dog in jail? Victoria Vincent’s latest animation is an absurd tale
Typeface
2026Yee Hawr: horsegiirL is the new face of Dinamo’s half sans half serif experiment in type design
Motion
2021Kijek/Adamski continues to “break new ground” with its experimental approach to animation
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1995Abstract refuse : a heteronymic primer
Motion
2012Why make one music video when you can make ten? Micachu shows us how it's done
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2013Intriguing new project from the mysterious and wonderful Thomas Albdorf
Typeface
2022Fiction and philosophy drive Benjamin Dumond’s experimental type projects
Motion
2012Good-strange new music video from Jeremy Liebman with Aurelien Arbet for My Best Fiend
Motion
2013POW! Extraordinary animation from Nicos Livesey and Tom Bunker
Movement
1954Gutai Art Association
Motion
2012Genuinely hilarious – and timely – vermin-riddled animation from Amael and Leo
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2020“It’s sporadic and random”: Jackson Bowley on his experimental, hands-on photographic practice
Motion
2022Tomaszewicz Studio’s mesmerising film highlights the endless possibilities of junk
Motion
2022Get lost in the gloriously grainy animations of creative duo Rapapawn
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2012Fulvio Bonavia makes cauliflower bobble hats and watermelon helmets. Cool!
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2016Considered, understated but experimental work from Berlin studio Tim+Tim
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"Gilbert Paper Exquisite [201671]
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2015Dennis Cooper’s strangest “novel” yet is written entirely with gifs
Motion
2012Unreal new Tame Impala video from Super-duo Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling!
Identity
2020Motoi Shito designs fresh and unexpected packaging for a Japanese confectionary company
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2016Icelandic design grad Helga Dögg's experimental zines are a delight
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2022Organic in style, wacky by nature: discover Joe Taylor’s brilliant animated illustrations
Motion
2020Optical Arts is a collaborative studio pushing the boundaries of motion and CGI
Motion
2018Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared to debut at Sundance Film Festival
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2011Norman Mclaren
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2016An experimental comic from ELCAF-prizewinner Liam Cobb
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2020Kevin Herrmann animates the state of mind silence can induce
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2012FiZZZ BZZZZ: Antique De Profundis & Animal Grotesk
Motion
2018Raman Djafari’s unpredictable approach to animation makes for a hypnotic and emotive film
Motion
2026DEMO Fest 2027, starring… you? Submit your motion design for a chance to be screened worldwide
Poster
2016Designer Okuyama Taiki encourages you to “play freely” with his experimental posters
Motion
2013Animation: A technically brilliant and super weird short from Murat Sayginer
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2010Tyler Askew
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2017Animade’s Milo Targett tackles role play in this series of funny and absurd shorts
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2011Ubu Web
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2020Hoi Chan envelops a solitary sense of serenity in his delicate illustrations
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2015Breakable, slidable, playable, readable, intelligible - it's December's Things
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2017Friday Mixtape: An after-show mix from The Flaming Lips
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2010Pixar: Day and Night
Garment
2015Russian photographer Erik Panov's latex and salmon themed fashion shoot
Motion
2014Film: 1000 litres of black treacle and nudity means a new website from Carl Burgess
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