TEDxSydney is the leading platform for the propagation of Australian ideas, creativity and innovation to the rest of the world. The 2022 event Imprint brought together a stellar lineup of speakers, thinkers and performers who asked audiences to question on both a personal and global scale what marks we want to leave behind.
The brief was to create opening titles for TEDxSydney’s flagship event with 2022’s theme of Imprint, setting the tone for the speakers and performers to come.
Through a lens of past, present and future, the titles investigate and communicate the imprints humanity has left – our decisions, stories and lives. The piece brings attention to the idea that each step creates a ripple effect: today defines tomorrow. Ultimately, it provokes consideration of the question, “What mark will you leave?”
The approach explores how humanity has left its mark throughout time with motifs referencing storytelling, arts, culture, industrialisation, waste and warfare. These visuals reflect the hope, strength, courage, hubris and greed that shape our futures. Pages, hallways and tunnels guide the audience on a journey between past, present and future, closing on a hopeful vision that asks what kind of futures we want to create.
