Cloverfield end credits: Glitch Art design
Over the weekend, I went and saw the new American monster movie, [tag]Cloverfield[/tag]. I won’t review it here, there are already plenty of reviews out there for you to check out.
From a design perspective, I found the end credits interesting as they were inspired by a design technique called “glitch art”. [tag]Glitch art [/tag] explores unplanned errors created by computer or electronic devices that are captured and manipulated by the artist. I started experimenting with glitch [tag]art[/tag] several years ago when I was working on a temperamental mac. I found some of the frozen screens to be absolutely fascinating – layers of geometric shapes and lines overlapping my current desktop and work.
I can’t find any examples from the Cloverfield credits, but here are a few links to examples of Glitch art: