Vimeo is becoming one of the most popular video sites for users who want a place to present high quality, artistic videos. Its elegant interface and user-friendly tools make the service an attractive website for artists, filmmakers and videobloggers. Because of this, Vimeo is full of amazing work from the realms of animation, film making, artistic commentary, and captures of beautiful moments from everyday life.

Here are 12 amazing videos for design inspiration that are a must see for creatives and non-creatives alike:

1. Galactic Center of Milky Way







This breathtaking film is a timelapse captured film of the Milky Way moving over Texas. It's amazing to see the many ways a filmmaker can use time lapse to create gorgeous videos.

2. Muto







An animation by an artist known as Blu, the film features a wall painted animation filmed in Buenos Aires and in Baden.

3. Short Love Story in Stop Motion







A beautiful stop motion animation film that takes you on a rollercoaster of a love story from childhood to the end. It is filled with breathtaking imagery and seamless design. You can learn more about how the artist, Carlos Lascano, used stop motion and 2d animation to create this video on his site.

4. Big Ideas (don't get any)







For his final project, art student James Houston created an amazing retro remix to Radiohead's "Nude." The project was originally created for the contest the band held for their album "In Rainbows."

5. Light-paint Piano Player







Light painting can be a fascinating thing to watch. This animated light paintings video of a little piano player performing against the night landscape of San Diego is a must-see.

6. What Else Is There?







As with every one of Royksopp's music videos, this one is just odd and magical to watch. "What Else Is There?" is a haunting song, followed by an equally haunting video depicting the dream-state travel of the subject across strange landscapes.

7. Autumn Story







This music video, directed by Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg, was designed from the stills of a chalk drawing. It's absolutely beautiful and inspiring.

8. Helpless







As with all of Keith Loutit's videography, this piece was designed from thousands of stills that were later edited together and put into stop motion film. The way in which the artist edits these creates an appearance that you are watching a small miniature world of people. It's amazing to watch.

9. Irregular Flow







The artist created an illusion using compositing of the young woman creating an almost musical pattern of ink drops moving across the wall. I absolutely love how the wind moves her and creates an illusion that the ink is flowing because of that.

10. Steel Life







Steel life is the master thesis film of Mathieu Gerard. Gerard creates beautiful imagery including landscapes, textures, and movement by utilizing digital design.

11. Surface







Directed by TU+//Varathit Uthaisri, the film is an exploration of human actions and movement from below the surface.

12. Scintillation







Xavier Chassaing creates a magical film from 35,000 photographs and a combination of live projection mapping techniques. This is by far my favorite video. It's absolutely amazing.

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