Design in motion

You don't have to look far to see motion and broadcast graphics dazzling, enthralling and enticing audiences. Just turn on any television set and wait. From BBC One's recent circular on-screen identity revamp to Channel 4 and MTV's many idents and stings, it's a vast and varied area for creativity. Yet defining an industry that covers so many disciplines and potential applications can be pretty tricky. "The term motion graphics is an attempted catch-all and a desire for people to tag and bunch diverse areas of visual moving image," says Shane Walter, director of cross-media production company onedotzero. "We don't have the language for this kind of new moving image."

Quba Michalski, one half of Turkey's premiere motion graphics company, imago, agrees: "Since motion graphics is such a broad discipline, there is a lot of confusion about it going around. Many of the clients we talk to are convinced we are a 3D animation company."

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