Oil'd

From the Designer:
'A year ago, a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it.

As the year anniversary was fast approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking.

So in an effort to further our discussion on oil dependency I created this short animation. I've spent all of my free time in the last month putting this together to help illustrate just how dependent we truly are on oil.'

This is a great 2 minute animation that I thoroughly enjoyed watching. The graphics flow so smoothly from one to the other, and the transitions are incredibly clever. The simple vector imagery fits the theme and the use of subtle textures is inspired. The typeface also suits the topic and seems very similar to the sort of typeface used in several other short animations like this, and the ones found largely on infographics.