Motion graphics are flat out neat. They’re what dazzles our eyes at the beginning of movies and during commercials. They’re what takes stagnant illustrations and makes them great animations. Even little pieces of motion graphics are implemented in video productions as well. There’s no other way to say it—motion graphics are cool.

As connection speeds go up, and users crave more and more immersive experiences, we’ll see motion graphics play a larger and larger role in web design. Recently I’ve noticed a lot of designers taking this route rather than learning coding and all that technical stuff. If you are a sure fire creative, video and motion graphics could totally be for you.

So to fire up those creative juices, we’ve put together a collection of incredible motion graphics. Let’s jump right in…

TVC Documentary

Sugar of the day

Cinco radio buenos dias 25 aniversario

Life on mars

FITC Toronto awards

Typomania festival

Sweet for After Effects (demo)

Social Media Awards opening titles

Think with Google

shoobAKA reel 2013

Etereas

Breakout ident

Clear History title screen

MTV Idol

By Any Means title screen

ARTV

Kankin free font video

The Customizers

Inspiration

Cumbia Ninja

Amsterdam Open Air festival

Health Spots GCBA 

Foxlife worldwide TV branding

20 century logos 14

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The U.S. Department of State will be recruiting for the Pathways Internship Program March 17-March 28, 2014.

If you know you want to pursue a Pathways Internship, you should consider preparing your application package in advance of the job announcement and create an account and Saved Searches on USAJobs.  

Visit our forums if you have any questions, or to search for topics of interest. The forums can be found under Engage on the careers.state.gov website. You can also search our FAQs for more information.

U.S. citizenship is required. An equal opportunity employer.

The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) has selected Professor Marie desJardins as one of four awardees of the 2014 NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award.

The award comes with a gift to UMBC of $5,000, sponsored by AT&T that can be used to further Professor desJardins’s mentoring activities. The award will be presented at the 2014 NCWIT Summit in Newport Beach, California in May 2014.

NCWIT is a non-profit community of more than 500 prominent corporations, academic institutions, government agencies, and non-profits working to increase women’s participation in technology and computing. Their annual NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award recognizes U.S. Academic Alliance representatives for their outstanding mentorship, high-quality research opportunities, recruitment of women and minority students, and efforts to encourage and advance undergraduates in computing-related fields.

Lynn Cazabon, Visual Arts, has been invited as the Judd Award Visiting Artist at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, MI and will give a lecture on her work there on March 20, 5:30-7.

Click here to find out more information.

An article published in the politics section of The Daily Beast on March 11 focuses on Maryland State Del. Heather Mizeur and her chances of winning the race for governor. With the Democratic primary nearing in June, the article outlines steps Mizeur and her campaign have taken to spread her message and meet with voters.

Many political experts have said Mizeur has a difficult path towards the nomination because her two opponents in the race, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Attorney General Douglas Gansler have greater name recognition and more campaign cash on hand.

Political Science Professor Thomas Schaller was interviewed for the article and said Mizeur has a bright political future even if she is unsuccessful with this year’s gubernatorial campaign.

“Mizeur is a strong candidate with an even stronger future in the party. I expect her to be a statewide nominee at some point down the line,” Schaller said.

“But she’s at least one cycle ahead of her time: Not because she lacks the skills or a natural constituency among Maryland liberals—she has both, in fact. But because, as is almost always the case, statewide Democratic primaries in blue Maryland are crowded affairs and tough to win. And frankly, the difficulties facing House Delegates in their effort to win a Democratic gubernatorial nomination are similar to those of U.S. House members trying to win presidential nominations: Their platform is too small,” he added.

You can the full article in The Daily Beast here.