client: TEDxOhioStateUniversity
project: In-Person Event Media

Motion and Visual Designer
with TEDxOhioStateUniversity

Magnify

TEDxOhioStateUniversity is an all student run TEDx group at Ohio State. The design committee's role is to create all of the graphics, motion, and visual elements for the organization. Collaborating with my fellow designers, I worked with various vendors to create a memorable event that invited our audiences to look closer at ideas and the world around them. Our partners at Bartha and Mershon Auditorium helped us bring some of our larger endeavors to life.






Designing the stage

I was provided with a concept sketch for an ambitious stage design based around the idea of “magnifying” our speaker’s ideas and talk topics. The artwork seen above illustrates a cloud of icons pertaining to the speaker’s talk exploding out of their head. Working with our production partner, Bartha, we settled on a three projector setup that would act as a panoramic display. I was provided with measurements of the stage and projector output and used those to build an ultra wide-screen after effects composition. Shown above is also a preliminary mockup of what the final product would look like and an image illustrating how the three source video streams look and fit together when projected.



The Reveal

Each of our main events is based around a theme revealed at the beginning of the academic year. With 2020’s theme being Magnify, I set out to create motion cues that lended themself to the idea of magnification. This was accomplished through both iconography and the act of “zooming-in” itself.



Speaker Headshots

There was also a scheduled reveal for our event's speakers. The visuals once again set out to suggest the act of magnification—this time aiming to convey both that concept and the stylings of the initial theme reveal. Animated and still versions were created to operate across all platforms.