Oliver Jeffers + Mac Premo / TED2013
The above are screen grabs from the wonderous TED2013 Conference opening video. Mac Premo made it with Oliver Jeffers. You can watch the film by clicking here, and we are very proud to have been asked to work with the guys at TED again to create this intro film and all of the speaker bumpers for this years first series of talks currently being held in California.
Studio buddies and friends Oliver Jeffers and Mac Premo collaborated to create the epic TED machine you see featured in the above. Mac building the beast and Oliver collaging and adding the typography (some of which as been used in other materials around the site. Mac then set to work creating the stop motion film which is being used to introduce the talks as well as serve as bumpers for each speaker as they come on stage.
There'll be more soon but for now... feast our eyes.
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