A look at Trunk Animation's widely-praised Buckingham Palace projections
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- 6 June 2012
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- Rob Alderson
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Forced to follow the Diamond Jubilee concert on Twitter (because of a competitive quiz-based game during an otherwise lovely Bank Holiday barbecue) it was striking that along with the flag-waving patriotism, snide cynicism and unceasing efforts of people trying to be funny, there was a lot of admiration for the animations projected onto Buckingham Palace during Madness’ short set. The work of London-based studio Trunk Animation, they used the grandiose canvas to full effect and brought an interesting visual element to a show not short of big set-pieces. On such a big stage in front of such a huge worldwide audience it would be churlish to complain that the animation wasn’t hugely groundbreaking, this was crowd-pleasing at its very best,
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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.


