Digital-out-of-home partners Global, blowUP media, Adtrackmedia, Warexpo and NEORT all joined this unique initiative by offering ad-free screen space for the festival, lending the festival a powerful screen presence that is otherwise nearly impossible to co-ordinate. Screens at train stations across fifteen major cities in the Netherlands, including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, as well as screens in international cities such as Antwerp, Brussels, Barcelona, Madrid, Warsaw, Vancouver, and Tokyo, will showcase beautiful works from artists around the world.
Here’s where you come in. Yes, you, excitable motion designer. Central to DEMO is its open call, which invites designers from all backgrounds and levels of experience to submit work, whether you’re reading this from your university studio or you’re deep into a decade-spanning career. It’s for the emerging and the established to participate and push the creative boundaries of non-commercial work. Evidently, DEMO’s open calls have been a roaring success, resulting in a highly diverse range of submissions from typographic experiments to abstract animations and 3D worlds. Last year, the festival received over 5,000 submissions from nearly 2,000 designers across 90 countries. That’s the growing relevance of motion design in numbers!