Trollbäck + Company

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Trollbäck + Company is a New York-based creative studio producing graphics, design and live action for advertising, broadcast, and entertainment. The company’s creative output covers a broad spectrum, ranging from network re-brands, film title sequences, live action commercials, short films and music videos to publication design and environmental design.

Founded in 1999 by Jakob and Lisa Trollbäck, the studio is currently led by the self-taught executive creative director Jakob Trollbäck. Their clients include TV networks CBS, AMC, HBO, TNT, TV Land, Scripps Networks Interactive, Nickelodeon and ESPN; film companies HBO Films, Fox Searchlight and Miramax; and advertising clients such as Nike, Volvo, Target and Jaguar.

Projects include the on-air re-brand of CBS, the visual content for the IAC Video Wall (one of the world’s largest video walls at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC headquarters in New York), titles for the global TED conference, and Oscar-winning Capote, numerous HBO collaborations and live action campaigns for companies such as Infiniti, Nike and Callaway. Trollbäck + Company was one of the broadcast design partners for the Nickelodeon rebrand in 2009 and utilized projection mapping technology for the brand's 2011 image campaign. Most recently, Trollbäck + Company launched a digital division and released their first app, +loop.[1] Most recently they stepped in for J.J. Abrams and produced the opening titles and bumpers for The Late Late Show with James Corden (Titles: https://vimeo.com/122799123 | Bumpers: https://vimeo.com/122799097)

The company has received dozens of creative-industry awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award (Outstanding Main Title Design, 2003, for HBO's Hysterical Blindness),[2] AICP Show, Art Directors Club, Broadcast Designers Association, British D&AD, Communication Arts Design Annual, The One Show, and Type Directors Club.[3] Some of their work was showcased in the 2006-2007 Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial.[4] Jakob Trollbäck is on the board of directors at the Art Directors Club, an adviser for the World Science Festival, a trustee at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a PromaxBDA board member. He is actively involved in the TED community and gave his own talk on music video design.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "loop on the App Store on iTunes". Itunes.apple.com. 2011-12-09. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  2. ↑ Katie Makal (Jul 26, 2004). "Main Title Design, Commercial Emmy Noms Announced". Archived from the original on Jan 12, 2006. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  3. ↑ Debbie Millman: Design Matters with Jakob Trollbäck, retrieved on 2008-05-09.
  4. ↑ Design Life Now: National Design Triennial, retrieved on 2008-05-08.
  5. ↑ "Jakob Trollback: A new kind of music video | Talk Video". TED.com. Retrieved 2014-06-09.

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