Chris & Trish Meyer

Creating Motion Graphics is the blog for award-winning motion graphic designers Chris and Trish Meyer of Crish Design (formerly CyberMotion). Here is where they share not just their latest tips, tricks, and gotchas for the tools they use, but also discoveries that help them run their business, sources that inspire their designs, and musings on the future of the motion graphics industry.

Chris & Trish Meyer founded Crish Design (formerly known as CyberMotion) in the very earliest days of the desktop motion graphics industry. Their design and animation work has appeared on shows and promos for CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, HBO, PBS, and TLC; in opening titles for several movies including Cold Mountain and The Talented Mr. Ripley; at trade shows and press events for corporate clients ranging from Apple to Xerox; and in special venues encompassing IMAX, CircleVision, the NBC AstroVision sign in Times Square, and the four-block-long Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas. They were among the original users of CoSA (now Adobe) After Effects, and have written the numerous books including "Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects" and "After Effects Apprentice" both published by Focal Press.

Both Chris and Trish have backgrounds as musicians, and are currently fascinated with exploring fine art and mixed media in addition to their normal commercial design work. They have recently relocated from Los Angeles to the mountains near Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Monday, June 07, 2010

Designing British Road Signs

What goes into conveying information to someone busy trying to drive a car.

I am a huge fan of the BBC programme Top Gear. Aside from the fact that I’m a car nut, I enjoy the wry humor, the unusual set (standing literally in the middle of the audience), the crazy stunts, and the graphic design that goes into the vignettes on many of the cars (that would be a nice gig…). I’ve been catching up on episodes with BBC America, and stumbled across an interesting interview with Margaret Calvert: one of the people responsible for designing the motorway signs in England after WWII. With the introduction of high-speed motorways, the government realized that their standard signs didn’t work. As a result, a whole new font and set of icons were designed. Graphic designers interested in how to convey information quickly may enjoy some of her insights:

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