When building interactive maps & data visualizations, we’re not so much designing a single view as we are designing a system for generating views. These systems allow for exploration and for viewers to not just find new answers, but generate new kinds of questions. We’ve designed interactive works for the Dalai Lama, Facebook, the State Department, MTV and many others.

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MTV Music Awards Twitter Visualizations

We worked with MTV on a series of live visualizations of realtime Twitter data. The effort started with the 2009 Video Music Awards, and was extended to multiple other simultaneous ...

MSNBC Hurricane Maps

An interactive hurricane tracker, built with MSNBC’s Paige West to track major storms. The project allowed for interactive investigation of both live and historical hurricane paths,...

Crimespotting

If you hear sirens in your neighborhood, you should know why. One of the first fully web-native visualizations of urban crime data in the world, Crimespotting made this possible in San Francisco and Oakland with interactive map...

Digg Labs

Digg.com was, for a time, one of the most-visited sites on the internet. The site’s ever-changing content, all submitted by members, provides a vivid window onto what was interesting online, ...

Acconci.com

We were fans of Acconci Studio well before we started working with them—their design for New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture was a c...

Pro Choice America

NARAL, the political and grassroots arm of the pro-choice movement, organized the March for Women’s Lives on Washington, D.C., on, April 25, 2004. We designed and built a structure to visually represent both the march’s massive turnout and it...

Empty City

Empty City” investigates the fractured urbanism of San Francisco, Las Vegas and the road in between. As in our experiences of these places, events occur in fragments, via unexpected juxtapositions, and are often gone before they have fully arriv...