Opening titles 2024 Playgrounds The Art Department Festivals by Form Play | STASH MAGAZINE

Form Play Opens 2024 Playgrounds, The Art Department Festivals in Eindhoven and Berlin

Conjuring a cast of whimsical characters, Brighton studio Form Play stages a series of gently comic vignettes (in the spirit of Saul Bass) for the title sequence of the 2024 Playgrounds, The Art Department festivals in Eindhoven and Berlin. [Watch]

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Erwin van den IJssel Opens the London Playgrounds In Motion Festival 2023

After working with BUCK on the identity for the London stop on Playgrounds’ new In Motion traveling festival, Amsterdam-based director Erwin van den IJssel translated the branding into these stand-out opening titles. [Watch]

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Erwin van den IJssel Opens 2022 BLEND Festival

Following his lock-down-inspired 2020 BLEND titles, Dutch director/animator Erwin van den IJssel returns to open the 2022 festival with both analog and digital art “that ultimately blend into something new.” [Watch]

Best of Stash 2019: EVENT FILMS | STASH MAGAZINE

Best of Stash 2019: Event Films

The creative freedom that comes with creating trailers and titles for design conferences have established these sequences as the genre of choice for visually ambitious directors. Here are seven that kept our optic nerves tingling in 2019. [Watch]

Playgrounds - The Art Department 2019 Titles by Nick DenBour | STASH MAGAZINE

Headbanging and Assorted Chaos in Eindhoven

Toronto video artist Nick DenBoer smears his talent for the silly and surreal all over these titles for the Playgrounds the Art Department festival in The Netherlands, creating both the CG and the music. [Watch]

Playgrounds The Art Department Berlin Main Titles | STASH MAGAZINE

Playgrounds The Art Department Berlin 2019 Main Titles

Director and CG artist Sava Zivkovic in Belgrade, Serbia: “Influenced by our surroundings and experiences while growing up, this film is a recollection of a distant memory, one that many of us would try our hardest to forget. [Watch]