Typographic Music Video: Jay-Z feat Santogold - Brooklyn Go Hard

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

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Check out the new music video for Jay-Z’s ‘Brooklyn Go Hard’ featuring Santogold.

Director Evan Roth from Graffiti Research Lab uses typographic illustration, spelling out “Brooklyn” in cascading typeface, the component parts meshing and building full form images of Jigga and Biggie. (more…)

Examples of Kinetic Typography

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Daniel and I got on the subject of Pulp Fiction today and on how awesome that film truly is! Which, led us in to a discussion about the brilliant example of Kinetic Typography which utilised the dialogue of the Jules & Brett scene that circulated the net a while back. I remember seeing it when it first did the rounds and thought it was pretty cool, so I jumped on to YouTube to watch it again and managed to find a swagger of other Kinetic Typography using dialogue from equally awesome movies.

Please note most of these clips partake in an audible and visual dose of profanities.

Here are some of the gems I have found:

Pulp Fiction - Is Marsellus Wallace a Bitch?
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