Danish Director Casper Balslev Signs with Institute
July 17, 2025
Henning M. Lederer Enters the Machine in New Music Video for Max Cooper and Aneek Thapar
Follow director Henning M. Lederer (whose obsession with animating book covers we follow here), on his intricate motion journey for the track “I Exist Inside This Machine”, an audio collab between Max Cooper and Aneek Thapar. [Watch]
“Even More Covers” by Henning M. Lederer
Animator Henning Lederer is back with a third mesmerizing ode to modernist book design, reimagining 66 more covers as minimalist and op-art motion compositions anchored by austere Swiss typography. [Watch]
More Mesmerizing Mid-century Motion
In 2015 German animator Henning M. Lederer scored a cult hit with his hypnotic animated short “Covers” by infusing 55 mid-century book designs with motion. “More Covers” expands the exercise with 36 additional publications. [Watch]
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark “Isotype”
If there’s such a thing as minimalist maximalism, this entrancing and intricate infinite zoom created by German director/animator Henning Max Lederer for OMD’s new single “Isotype” is probably it. [Watch]
55 Animated Vintage Book Covers
Indulge your fetish for 70’s design with this five-minute, low-key feast of tightly kerned Helvetica, Swiss-flavored graphics and Op art – courtesy of German designer/animator Henning Max Lederer. [Watch]
