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Pause :59 Minutes of Motion Graphics

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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.

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.

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.

I read this in a sushi restaurant, or rather perused it. The brief bits of text that capped each segment seemed ... inconsequential. Nice ideas at times, but most weren't developed. The design was great, well worth a few hours attention, but better to borrow than to buy. Cinematic works can rarely be broken down to key frames, but the compilers of this book did a good job of that, capturing the essence of the spot (or at least why they were excited by it) in a half dozen shots. I would have loved a VCD or DVD with the book, but no such luck.

This should have been a CD-ROM or DVD product. The stills did nothing to inspire or educate me on motion graphic techniques. Nice philosophic text though.

This is a great sourcebook and inspirational tool for any designer of motion graphics who, like myself, enjoys dissecting this type of work frame by frame, but rarely catches the opportunity. A treasure trove of new or heard-about-but-never-seen pieces by designers both familiar and foreign to me, this book is an important archive of a field whose medium is comprised of altogether too-fleeting or unaccessible work. The design and graphics in commercials, videos, network interstitials, and showreels are not mere adornment or ancillary; they construct and enframe our visual experience or the medium itself. The book is designed well, and really lets you examine the pieces (which are reproduced gorgeously) in detail sequentially , rather than just relying on a frame or two. Just one problem: where's the CD-ROM, so we can enjoy the pieces with our finger *off* the pause button?

I had bought this book because it was "Required Reading" for one of my classes in art college. Not worth buying. Each page features storyboards of various motion graphics commercials/video art (and not even the best motion graphics at that). If I could return it, I'd return it right away. If you're an art student and you're a motion graphics art student, and you're required to buy this book for class, please don't waste your money. You are better off reviewing reels of commercials on company websites and learning from them. The choices of work in this particular book are terrible. The art/color is very mediocre and most seemed to have been released in the 1990's. Much of commercials/motion graphics nowadays are very sophisticated and artsy. You'd learn a lot more by watching the commercials on t.v.

If you are a student, please save your money for your bus fare/train commuting, or better yet save it as lunch money.

A well-written and graphically documented work on the art of communication design for broadcast and film. There are excellent descriptions of the works, the photographs are of the highest quality and taste. I believe this book should be owned by every student of graphic design, every graphic designer and any person involved with graphic design issues in marketing products.