Some of this year's holiday cards in motion are lovely. The UK-based digital arts organization onedotzero went to Wieden+Kennedy and Karsten Schmidt to create a piece using a design and visualization tool built for their annual festival. Words made from words tumble through space as the camera zooms inward, finally settling on a holiday greeting. Using the same generator, the holiday card's code has been made available so that others can play around and create new messages. And Flux, the LA-based media arts organization, commissioned six holiday animations by the eminently creative Miwa Matreyek to appear on Cooper Design's Space's video wall at 860 S. Los Angeles Street. The video wall, which itself was commissioned by building owner Steve Hirsh and unveiled in June of this year, runs on software designed by artist Perry Hoberman, and Flux serves as the wall's curator. Matreyek's pieces are heartwarming bits of fairytale whimsy, taking the traditional paper card's quick, friendly gesture into motion. The six videos by Matreyek will screen through January 1, but you can see two of them on the Flux site. (Image: Miwa Matreyek.)
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