Tennis

MNSTR, Lacoste, The Australian Open, and the Small Screen.

If you work with video, animation, or motion graphics for advertising, or promotional materials you should probably start thinking heavily about mobile outlets and how you will deliver content. Case in point, the video below from MNSTR for Lacoste and the Australian Open. This video showcases the work MNSTR created specifically for the small screen, and even more specifically for the short time frame, touch points like Instagram and Snapchat require. Simple, short, colorful animations paired with high quality sound design help to make these work. MNSTR did their homework and got their heads wrapped around the space these would presented in and pulled it off. This series of short animations were dribbled out over the two week event helping to extend the total reach of Lacoste’s efforts.

More Than The Score.

I never saw this promo air during the US Open. It might have played locally, but since I tend to mute, pause and skip, or record then blast past ads, I probably just missed it. Produced by BUCK for IBM and Ogilvy & Mather, the animated short features loads of data visualizations done up in an entertaining way, set to the beat of Andrew W.K’s “I Love New York City”. In typical fashion BUCK nails the animation and brand styling for IBM. It’s worth watching all the way through if for no other reason than the facts they present about the US Open and New York. Oh they get extra points for going with a square format for the finished piece.

Buck Serves Up Datagrams for the US Open.

I love this. What a great use of white hot visual social media goliath Instagram, beautiful design, and animation, plus data provided by IBM. At the US Open this year, Buck in conjunction with IBM and Ogilvy & Mather created live video animations that were uploaded to Instagram. A custom toolkit and workflow was designed and built to accommodate the live data that was being entered and shifted with the on court action. The result was responsive data-based animations, rendered and uploaded in minutes. The video below shows the end result highlighting the clean design work and simple animations.