ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jakob Trollback - Designer
Jakob Trollback is a pioneering designer, whose work in video and motion graphics has helped define the industry -- always pushing the edges of technology and entertainment through design.

Why you should listen

Jakob Trollback is a designer and creative thinker -- and he's also a DJ, which becomes clear when you see the work of his firm, Trollback + Company, distinguished by an almost musical attention to rhythm, form and detail.

As creative director for R/GA in the 1990s, Jakob Trollback was among the earliest group of designers to understand and embrace the importance of digital media, and the effect it would have on culture at large. Working on film titles, TV commercials, interactive displays ... Trollback translated the sea changes in media for advertisers and marketers, as well as Hollywood.

His firm Trollback + Company speciaizes in motion graphics -- those often-overlooked elements that set the tone for film and TV titles, short-form video and TV ad campaigns. Recently, Trollback designed the low-key but perfect titles for Deborah Scranton's Frontline documentary Bad Voodoo's War. They've also designed the video wall at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC building in New York City.

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Jakob Trollback | Speaker | TED.com
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Jakob Trollback: A new kind of music video

Jakob Trollback bekijkt de videoclip op een nieuwe manier

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Hoe zou een videoclip eruit zien als hij uitging van de muziek, simpelweg als uitdrukking van een goed nummer, en niet van het concept van een regisseur? Ontwerper Jakob Trollbäck vertelt over zijn experiment met de vorm.
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I’m workingwerkend a lot with motionbeweging and animationanimatie,
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Ik werk veel met beweging en animatie
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and alsoook I'm an oldoud DJDJ and a musicianmusicus.
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en ik was vroeger ook DJ en muzikant.
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So, musicmuziek- videosvideos are something that I always foundgevonden interestinginteressant,
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Ik heb videoclips dus altijd interessant gevonden,
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but they always seemlijken to be so reactivereactieve.
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maar ze lijken me altijd zo volgzaam.
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So I was thinkinghet denken, can you removeverwijderen us as creatorsmakers
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Dus dacht ik, kan je ons als creëerders weghalen
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and try to make the musicmuziek- be the voicestem
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en proberen om de muziek de stem te laten zijn
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and have the animationanimatie followingvolgend it?
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die gevolgd wordt door de animatie.
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So with two designersontwerpers, TolgaTolga and ChristinaChristina, at my officekantoor, we tooknam a trackspoor --
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Met twee ontwerpers, Tolga en Christina van mijn bureau, namen we een nummer --
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manyveel of you probablywaarschijnlijk know it. It’s about 25 yearsjaar oldoud,
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velen van jullie kennen het waarschijnlijk; het is bijna 25 jaar oud,
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and it's DavidDavid ByrneByrne and BrianBrian EnoEno --
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het is van David Byrne en Brian Eno --
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and we did this little animationanimatie.
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en we maakten deze kleine animatie.
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And I think that it's maybe interestinginteressant, alsoook,
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Ik denk dat het misschien ook interessant is
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that it dealsaanbiedingen with two problematicproblematisch issueskwesties,
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dat het twee problematieken behandelt,
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whichwelke are risingstijgende lijn waterswateren and religiongodsdienst.
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de stijging van de zeespiegel en 't geloof.
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SongLied: Before God destroyedvernietigd the people on the EarthAarde,
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Vóór God een einde maakte aan het leven op aarde,
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he warnedgewaarschuwd NoahNoach to buildbouwen an ArkArk.
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spoorde hij Noach aan om een ark te bouwen.
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And after NoahNoach builtgebouwd his ArkArk,
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En toen Noach de ark gebouwd had,
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I believe he told NoahNoach to warnwaarschuwen the people
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geloof ik dat hij Noach aanspoorde de mensen te waarschuwen
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that they mustmoet changeverandering all theirhun wickedWicked waysmanieren
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dat ze moesten stoppen met zondigen
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before he come uponop them and destroyvernietigen them.
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voordat Hij zich op hen zou wreken en hen zou vernietigen.
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And when NoahNoach had donegedaan builtgebouwd his ArkArk,
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En toen Noach zijn ark af had,
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I understandbegrijpen that somebodyiemand beganbegon to rendrend a songlied.
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geloof ik dat iemand een lied aanhief.
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And the songlied beganbegon to moveverhuizing on I understandbegrijpen like this.
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En het lied ging verder, geloof ik, op deze wijze.
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And when NoahNoach had donegedaan builtgebouwd his ArkArk ...
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En toen Noach zijn ark klaar af had ...
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MoveVerplaatsen on ... In factfeit ... ConcernZorg ...
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ging verder ...
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So they get tiredmoe, has come darkdonker and rainregen; they get wearyvermoeide and tiredmoe.
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En ze worden moe, duisternis en regen vallen; ze worden het moe.
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And then he wentgegaan and knockedklopte an oldoud ladydame househuis.
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Toen klopte hij aan bij een oude vrouw.
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And oldoud ladydame ranrende to the doordeur- and say, "Who is it?"
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En de oude vrouw liep naar de deur en zei: "Wie is daar?"
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JackJack say, "Me, Mama-sanMama-san, could we spendbesteden the night here?
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Jackson Lee Mama zei: "Kunnen we hier overnachten?"
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Because we’reRe farver from home, we’reRe very tiredmoe."
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"Want we zijn ver van huis, we zijn vreselijk moe."
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And the oldoud ladydame said, "Oh yes, come on in."
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En de oude vrouw zei: "Ja hoor, kom maar binnen."
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It was come darkdonker and rainregen, will make you wearyvermoeide and tiredmoe.
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Duisternis en regen vielen, ze zullen je bezwaard en moe maken.
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Translated by Annemieke Vanlaer
Reviewed by Albert Edelman

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jakob Trollback - Designer
Jakob Trollback is a pioneering designer, whose work in video and motion graphics has helped define the industry -- always pushing the edges of technology and entertainment through design.

Why you should listen

Jakob Trollback is a designer and creative thinker -- and he's also a DJ, which becomes clear when you see the work of his firm, Trollback + Company, distinguished by an almost musical attention to rhythm, form and detail.

As creative director for R/GA in the 1990s, Jakob Trollback was among the earliest group of designers to understand and embrace the importance of digital media, and the effect it would have on culture at large. Working on film titles, TV commercials, interactive displays ... Trollback translated the sea changes in media for advertisers and marketers, as well as Hollywood.

His firm Trollback + Company speciaizes in motion graphics -- those often-overlooked elements that set the tone for film and TV titles, short-form video and TV ad campaigns. Recently, Trollback designed the low-key but perfect titles for Deborah Scranton's Frontline documentary Bad Voodoo's War. They've also designed the video wall at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC building in New York City.

More profile about the speaker
Jakob Trollback | Speaker | TED.com