Overview
Built Around a Theme
The 2026 STN Convention invites storytellers to go beyond the surface with its theme, "Deep Dive." This concept celebrates the pursuit of deeper understanding — encouraging student journalists and creators to explore the layers behind every story.
Rather than focusing on disruption, the design language centers on exploration, curiosity, and depth. Graphics emphasize movement downward into layers of information, representing how powerful stories are uncovered when creators dig deeper and push beyond the obvious.
Services Used
Motion Design, 3D Visual Concept, In-Venue Loops, Screensaver Graphics, Evergreen Package
What's Included
- Screensaver Graphics (Deep Dive)
- Screensaver Graphics (Evergreen)
- 3D Styleframes
- Motion Loops
- Billboard Mockups
- In-Venue Display Content
Primary Visual
Style Frame 1
Style Frame 2
Motion Reel
See It Move
STN conventions bring together hundreds of student journalists from across the country under a single theme. The visual package has to work everywhere — on 40-foot stage screens, laptop displays, and lobby monitors — while feeling cohesive and thematically tight across a multi-day event.
We built from the theme outward. "Deep Dive" gave us a clear visual metaphor — ocean depth as investigative journalism. We used 3D design to create a sense of physical descent, with layered compositions that reveal more the further you go. Two variants — themed and evergreen — gave the venue team flexibility to switch between immersive and ambient modes as the program demanded.
What We Delivered
The Package
Looping animated screensavers in Deep Dive and Evergreen variants, formatted for all in-venue display types.
Seamlessly looping animated compositions reinforcing the depth and exploration theme across venue screens.
High-resolution 3D rendered styleframes showing the depth concept across key visual moments in the package.
In-venue application mockups showing the graphics at scale on real convention display environments.
Theme-agnostic evergreen variant for ambient display use throughout the full convention duration.
Fully themed Deep Dive variant with 3D motion for primary stage and keynote display use.