Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Type in Motion 2 raises visual communication and motion graphics to new levels and captures the true spirit of innovation and imagination in the contemporary design scene.

The most advanced typographic work from around the world, from one-person experimental studios to university-based research groups.

It has been six years since the publication of the internationally successful Type in Motion , the first book to present an overview of animated digital typography. Six years is a long time in the digital world, and creative innovation in motion graphics continues unabated.

Over eighty projects are presented here in detail and arranged into five chapters that address particular issues facing today's designers. "Identifying" looks at kinetic typography's role in branding through media such as television identities, program titles, and transition sequences. The delivery of information about a product, service, or event through a typographic message is considered in "Informing." Stitching together word, image, and sound to create stories and establish a context, "Storytelling" addresses issues of narrative, in which the designer establishes the framework but the user crates the story. "Traveling" focuses on the user, from Web site navigation to chat rooms. "Speculating" features a wide spectrum of experimental projects in type and letter design, exploring new ideas, functions, and methods of communication.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction: Back to Basics (p. 6)
• 01 Identifying (p. 8)
• EyeballNYC
• Off the Street (p. 10)
• In the Court (p. 12)
• Michael Feldman
• Musical Inspiration (p. 14)
• Reviving the Past (p. 15)
• P2
• The Space In-Between (p. 16)
• Lobo
• Warm and Fuzzy (p. 18)
• Sublimated Beauty (p. 20)
• GMUNK
• Funk and Groove (p. 22)
• Fast and Furious (p. 24)
• Fuel
• Street Smart (p. 26)
• Tronic Studio
• Typographic Infestation (p. 28)
• Montgomery & Co.Creative
• Igniting Anticipation (p. 30)
• Defining the Genre (p. 31)
• Top of the Food Chain (p. 32)
• Stockholm Design Lab
• Scandinavian Simplicity (p. 34)
• Digital Kitchen
• Riding the Soundwaves (p. 36)
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Emotive Type (p. 38)
• At Play (p. 40)
• M+Motive
• Drill Bits and V-Rods (p. 42)
• Capturing the Moment (p. 44)
• mOcean
• Horror Type (p. 46)
• Koo-Ki Motion Graphics
• Spicing up the News (p. 48)
• Trollback & Company
• Formal Clarity (p. 50)
• Reinventing the Book (p. 51)
• Lebanese American University
• Conceptual Type (p. 52)
• 02 Informing (p. 54)
• Arthur Kuhn
• Omniscient Type (p. 56)
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Form and Counterform (p. 58)
• Foreign Office
• Digital Culture (p. 62)
• Digital Kitchen
• Protecting Creativity (p. 64)
• Lebanese American University
• Audiovisual Essay (p. 66)
• Fuel
• Teasing the Converted (p. 68)
• Sweaty Serifs (p. 69)
• Connecting the Dots (p. 70)
• Carnegie Mellon University
• History Lessons (p. 72)
• 03 Storytelling (p. 74)
• Mirko Ilic
• Intimate Characters (p. 76)
• Athletic Types (p. 78)
• California College of the Arts
• Personal to Universal (p. 80)
• Montgomery & Co.Creative
• Illuminated Narratives (p. 84)
• Examining the Details (p. 86)
• Bar-room Banter (p. 87)
• Trollback & Company
• Capturing the Classics (p. 88)
• Blind Type (p. 90)
• Visual Poetry (p. 91)
• InterStitch Films
• Lyrical Movement (p. 92)
• Ageless Elegance (p. 93)
• Formal Dissection (p. 94)
• Counterformal Synthesis (p. 95)
• Garry Waller
• Visualizing Conversation (p. 96)
• Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich & Matteo Bologna
• Taming the Type (p. 100)
• Type Faces (p. 102)
• Foreign Office
• Gestural Reality (p. 104)
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Story Lines (p. 106)
• Digital Kitchen
• Illustrating Whimsy (p. 110)
• Hitoshi Takekiyo
• Strictly Business (p. 112)
• KeeJung Kwon
• Erotica (p. 113)
• John Underkoffler
• Documenting Megalomania (p. 114)
• 04 Travelling (p. 116)
• Ten_Do_Ten
• Icons in Motion (p. 118)
• Fitch
• Automobile Telematics (p. 124)
• Guido Alvarez
• Soul Hunting (p. 126)
• Scenting Freedom (p. 128)
• W. Bradford Paley
• Literary Threads (p. 130)
• Unravelling the Code (p. 132)
• Yugo Nakamura
• Playing with Time (p. 134)
• Defying Gravity (p. 136)
• Flirting with Code (p. 138)
• Tronic Studio
• Recalling Memory (p. 140)
• Atmospheric Type (p. 142)
• BuroDestruct
• Architext (p. 144)
• VCU-Qatar
• Transformative Type (p. 146)
• Kyle Barrow
• Mobile Ideography (p. 148)
• PIPS:lab
• Graffiti in Motion (p. 150)
• 05 Speculating (p. 152)
• Gicheol Lee
• Typographic Organisms (p. 154)
• ASCII Image (p. 156)
• Bending the Rules (p. 157)
• Brian Lemen
• Tactile Typography (p. 158)
• Chisa Yagi
• Time in Motion (p. 160)
• Matt Woolman
• Pixel Aquarium (p. 162)
• Avi Haltovsky
• Scissors, Paper, Type (p. 164)
• Luigi de Aloisio
• Mechanical Organics (p. 166)
• Simulating Nature (p. 168)
• P2
• Materialism (p. 170)
• Reza Abedini
• Persian Influence (p. 172)
• Jeff Bellantoni
• Alphabet City (p. 174)
• Luigi de Aloisio
• Clowning Around (p. 176)