TED Mainstage
Ideas worth spreading
Over the last decade, we have enjoyed an ongoing partnership with TED, helping to amplify and spread their bold, hopeful and audacious ideas around the world. The TED Stage is situated within the custom Rockwell Group designed theater and is set against 130+ feet of a seamless screen canvas begging for inspiring openers, compelling worlds and backdrops for the big ideas shared from the TED stage.
Set the stage
After years of a simpler stage design of screens and curtains, we broke new ground with the TED stage and introduced an intricate stage design that spilled out from the screen above to the stage below. Drawing on the Ancient Greek ‘exedra’ (a room in ancient Greece and Rome used for conversation and formed by an often semicircular shape and furnished with seats). This served as an intricate visual display for those in the room and created a litany of visual interest for the filming and recording of each TED Talk.
Fill the screen (and beyond)
We worked to build a projection system that was able to seamlessly extend the projection from the screens above to fully envelop the structures on stage below. The viewer was unable to decipher where the screens began and the stage ended. This canvas provided a beautiful textural complexity and simplicity - all in service to the powerful ideas being shared from the “red dot” on the TED stage.
Colours + Shapes not only understands the process and tech to pull off a massive project like TED, they also know how to execute creatively — which is a hard combo to find! They are the best in the business.
Mina Sabet
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