Designers United is a design team that was brought into being by acclaimed art directors Dimitris Koliadimas and Dimitris Papazoglou in order to engage visual research and systematic methodology into the design process. DU creates print and digital graphics that enable businesses, art institutions and other organizations to improve and strengthen their visual language.

Some great work coming out of London’s Post 98. The agency is led by 3 founding partners and specialize in identity, branding and spatial design. I especially love their more illustrative work and the high contrast and bright colors they incorporate into a lot of their projects. Very cool stuff.

Back when I was a student at Goshen College, I wrote a paper on the movie Seven for my Film Appreciation course.  I recall writing an in-depth description about the film’s title sequence, in particular, its sense of style and cinematography.  At the time, I had never seen a film’s opening sequence that so perfectly setup the movie and was, in itself, a work of art.  Since then, I have come to know that the man behind this and other similarly brilliant pieces of work is Kyle Cooper, a man I both envy and admire.  Cooper is a motion graphics designer who co-founded Imaginary Forces in 1996 and worked on a number of well known films before he left in 2003 and founded the creative agency Prologue.  I invite you to listen to a short talk on film motion graphics and designing by Cooper as well as look over his impressive bodies of work.

Kyle Cooper Demo Reel

Kyle Cooper Interview Part: One (Part Two Link)

Seven Title Sequence: