Spring 2023
Jump cuts: Fraser Muggeridge studio / Droga5
The Truth is Essential (2020)
Typography: Fraser Muggeridge and Michael Kelly, Fraser Muggeridge studio. Creative directors: Laurie Howell and Toby Treyer-Evans, Droga5. Editor: Tom Lindsay, Trim Editing. Director: Kim Gehrig. Music: ‘Requests’ from In The Moment (2015) by Makaya McCraven.The full title for this subscription campaign commercial for The New York Times is ‘The Truth is Essential: Life Needs Truth’. Over a track by jazz drummer Makaya McCraven, this skilfully edited 2'20" video juxtaposes typeset questions and statements (‘Is It OK To Go For A Walk?’, ‘Engage’, ‘Midnight Pasta’), with a rapid-fire sequence of frames that display various subject matter in overlapping stills, videos and text …
John L. Walters, editor of Eye, London
Read the full version in Eye no. 104 vol. 26, 2023
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