Nigel Holmes (former Graphic Director of TIME Magazine), who openly recognizes the influence on Muybridge on his work, gives a 2008 presentation on the challenges of communicating graphic ideas in today’s changing communication environments.

Like golf or tennis? We’re so used to seeing motion graphics nowadays, it’s easy to forget the influence Muybridge has on instruction manuals we see everyday.

“The Man Who Made Pictures Move” - a very informative article by NPR demonstrating how Muybridge made photography a medium about time and motion, and that Muybridge remains one of the important bridges between art and science.

While the title of this short paper sounds geeky, in fact even if you only look at the pictures of this article it gives us a really interesting survey of a brief history of how we visualise our information

A recent article from the tech-magazine Wired gives a nice summary of the ground-breaking horse photographs by Muybridge.

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“The Man Who Stopped Time” - an excellent introductory article to Muybridge published in Stanford magazine in 2001.

A recent BBC News article on Muybridge speaks about the upcoming Tate Britain exhibition on Muybridge, together with a show at the Kingston Museum.

Without doubt, Stephen Herbert’s website The COMPLEAT Eadweard Muybridge is the best resource about Muybridge on the web. A work of love and incredible research. Hours can be spent on this site, which is very frequently updated. Gems of information including also the weird and wacky, including this dress, (which - seriously - I’m tempted to get for Fiona)...

A nice simple graphic display of Muybridge’s famous photos of horse “Annie”