Ringling College of Art – Rin Yokoi & Diane Lee | FutureProof 2025 Main Titles

Ringling College’s FutureProof 2025 conference kicked off with a bang—literally—thanks to Motion Design wizards Rin Yokoi and Diane Lee. The duo, students in the school’s Motion Design program, unleashed a whirlwind of explosive visuals and bold typography as the cornerstone of the event’s entire branding ecosystem. Inspired by the mantra ‘no destruction, no creation,’ their work smashed expectations with surreal object explosions and kinetic chaos, all while churning out a mountain of assets—posters, social content, web banners, merch, and a show-stopping opener—in just two months. Behind the madness was a tag-team hustle. Rin spearheaded animation and editing, while Diane wrangled design, 3D texturing, and lighting—a partnership they jokingly dubbed ‘the child of our chaotic minds.’ The project’s breakneck timeline collided with technical chaos: no render farms meant hijacking 15 lab computers nightly until 1AM or shelling out for cloud rendering. But for these two, the chaos was the point. Motion Designers, they argue, aren’t timid clickers—they’re rule-breaking, boundary-pushing weirdos who thrive on blowing things up (metaphorically, mostly). FutureProof 2025’s branding? Proof indeed.