Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper
Tonight was the AIGA Kyle Cooper presentation. I earned my free, thrid row ticket into the event by directing traffic outside. I saw a few people I recognized, but didn’t get a chance to go say, “Hey, what’s up? How are you doing? Really? Aww. That’s too bad.”
It started on time, 15 min after scheduled. It was amazing.
For those who don’t know, Kyle Cooper studied under Paul Rand. He’s old-school, in a new exciting way. The key thing to take away from what he said was that you have to be a great graphic designer before you can become good at motion graphics. Essentially, the concept comes before the technology. (Where have I heard that before?)
Paul Rand’s work has a lot of motion despite being still. As is my understanding of motion graphics, it has to look good as a still before it’s going to look good in motion.
What I liked best about his work was his ability to just do what was best for each project. Kyle’s a strong Christian, yet he made a name for himself with the titles for “Seven”, in which he has said he was able to get into the mind of the serial killer in order to create the piece. He’s also relentless in achieving beautiful, perfectly crafted work in an insanely short amount of time. If you’ve seen the title’s to “Superman Returns”, that was done in 5 weeks.
There was a lot to be gotten (word?) out of the presentation. I’ve got a few images on Flickr.
April 12th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
He’s a strong Christian?! I didn’t know that. Truthfully, that sort of surprises me.