OFFF - The Screen

'Panot Pallooza' - OFFF 2026 Open Call Selected work for the Dissney Hub Screen

Panot Palooza

As the city of Barcelona expanded the council wanted residents to have the ability to identify where they were, solely by looking down, these identifiers are known as 'Panots'. This idea began the deep history of these tiles, spread throughout the city; the rose tile becoming a symbol of the city itself.

When OFFF announced their open call for The Screen I knew I wanted to create something that looked like it belonged on the side of the Dissney Hub. What better way to do this than to celebrate pieces of design that are a part of every day life - whether people notice or not.

Digitising the Panots

I looked at the various panot designs and chose the ones that I believed would work the best once animated. This included the flower, concentric, skull, Gaudi and the infamous banana leaf tiles.

Making them move

Once digitised I took each design into After Effects and played around with the different ways I could reveal the designs whilst keeping each one visually interesting when looped. I took the shape of the Dissney Hub and split it into four sections each containing three segments. The goal was to create a trippy visual feast which I thought could be achieved with the looping patterns placed into clipping masks that helped framed the building.

Final Submission

I thought the black and red was a bit too ominous and so I decided to change the colours to the obvious choice of red and yellow. Each section then alternated between having red or yellow as it's primary colour. This meant that when key-framed at different intervals they would sometimes overlap, merge and become a panot party.