MOtion Designers Wanted (2021)

Inspired by our old office’s history, I created this short animation for ROSEWOOD Creative, as an invite for awesome motion designers to join our team. I wanted to capture the static and distortion from the sound of radios and the visuals in old tvs as a tribute to H.A.M the Zenith Man.

The story says that our office, located in Mar Vista CA was home to Ham the Zenith Man. “Horace Hamacher was an electronics technician during World War II before becoming a news writer for radio station WOW of Omaha. After moving to Mar Vista in 1948, he decided he preferred repairing radios to writing copy, and opened up the Mar Vista Radio Service. By 1950 “Ham” was also providing sales and repair service for TVs, and referred to himself in local ads as Ham the Television Man. In the late 50s he began specializing in Zenith TVs and offering an early version of a remote control called Space Command (“Tune your TV from your easy chair”). In 1967 he became Ham the Zenith Man, the self-proclaimed “largest exclusive Zenith dealer in California”. Ham passed away in 1982; his business carried on in this building until 1994.”

- Robby Virus