Pause : 59 Minutes of Motion Graphics [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Laurence King
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1856691993
• ISBN-13: 978-1856691994
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 9.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,346,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Look before you buy, October 11, 2000

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Bongo "bongo2001" (OVERLAND PARK, KS USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pause :59 Minutes of Motion Graphics (Paperback)

I'm not sure what I expected, but I was certainly glad I didn'tbuy it.

'Pause' takes several commercials and displays roughly16-20 frames of each one. The advantage is that most of thesecommercials aren't available to one audience (the USA, for example).

Yes, it's a neat looking, well-designed, oversized thing to hold.There WERE some inspiring things in there. However, in my opinionit's NOT a $35 dollar book. It makes a nice first impression, but inthe end it felt like a very high-end, $20 design industry magazine.It should have been priced as such.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful layout, full of incredible inspirational media art, July 31, 2000

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Daniel Zuccarelli (Mount Laurel, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pause :59 Minutes of Motion Graphics (Paperback)

I just picked this book up in NY and I'm blown away. Every time I eye it on my shelf I have to stop what I'm doing and pull it out, sit on the floor, and pour over the pages... This is wonderful art for the generation X/Y age group. Not to cram too many buzzwords into this review, but this stuff really is on the edge... it's out there... I'll be a happy man is this is the direction the art world takes in the next few years...

This book takes an empty approach to design... lots of white and black space with strange freeze frames of different video and web pieces. Unlike most of the digital art books today, this does not have a companion CD-rom. Thats what makes this book so interesting, is that you have digital moving art, frozen, taken out of context, and put to paper. There's not many books like this, too bad.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good overview of the latest in motion graphics, May 26, 2000

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Patrick Tang - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pause :59 Minutes of Motion Graphics (Paperback)

Pause is the latest addition to the growing genre of books focusing on motion graphics and it does a good job. There is little text here, well-written introductions to categories into which the authors have contextualized the work. You won't find a detailed analysis of the process behind each work. However, this format does allow the visual imagery to speak for itself. Without being overly designed, the book celebrates the concentrated energy and beauty contained in every frame of kinetic motion graphics. It will likely draw comparisons to such works as Type in Motion, but Pause seems intended to be more of an inspirational resource, than a design technique book. The entire book itself is a metaphor of watching a tape of motion graphics. Flipping through and stopping to reflect on a single image. You just wish you could see more. Recommended if you're looking for the most current survey of motion graphics, but not the most definitive book ever about the subject. Check it out in a book store before you buy.