Materials in a mobile phone with pennies for scale
Mobile phones have become a huge part of our daily lives, but what are they made of? We made an animation showing the different elements including rare earth minerals for one phone, and also in all the phones made in a year (that’s 1,475 million smartphones)
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What does a pile of 60million unwanted Christmas presents look like? This image supported a campaign which called on UK shoppers to give more meaningful gifts at Christmas.
Read MoreIf you had a magic levitation device, what would you use it for? In this bespoke project with Sussex University we brought together artists and engineers working on an ultrasonic levitating device.
Read MoreNurSus need an educational resource for current and future healthcare professionals that communicates the carbon emissions and reductions that could be achieved in the NHS.
Read MoreDartmoor is a wild peatland landscape in Devon, England, know for its wild horses and sheep that wander freely. This animated slideshow illustrates the amount of carbon that is ‘sequestered’ by the peat and shows the importance of these landscapes as natural carbon stores.
Read MoreOur client wanted to show the scale of the problem of ocean plastic to an audience at the Cannes Lions Festival. So we made a film to show the rate of plastic waste in the Mediterranean Sea every second, and every day. And we liked the idea of filling the bay of Cannes with toy ducks!
Read MoreA film that shows in real time the current rate of global CO2 production - a million tons every thirteen minutes - as well as the reductions needed by 2030 and 2050 to meet the Paris climate target. The film was shown at the 44th G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada in June 2018.
Read MoreHow do you show the carbon saving from running vehicles on liquid petroleum gas (LPG)? A US company that converts taxi and bus fleets to run on propane / LPG needed help to show potential clients the carbon saving compared to petrol or diesel.
Read MoreHow do you add a ‘wow’ factor to a major bid or proposal where carbon saving is important? This image set was designed to help a global IT company communicate the carbon savings associated with their products.
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Many of us find it hard to make sense of people in statistics. So we created a ‘crowd visualisation’ tool for an NGO that allows people to explore data about their full and associate members by type of organisation, region, country, language and other characteristics in 3D and 2D.
Read MoreWest Sussex County Council wanted to draw attention to the recycling that residents don't do, but could. We created an animation for a public engagement campaign using social media, and a range of still and print materials for bill-boards and local news advertising.
Read MoreBuilding with bio materials like straw and wood locks up carbon. Seeing the ‘carbon-capture’ potential of these sorts of buildings could help architects, insurers and contractors consider the full potential of working with these natural materials.
We think of estuaries primarily in terms of nature and wildlife. But estuaries also provide important ecosystem services, for instance the saltmarsh sequesters and stores carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Communicating this to the public is a challenge, but we wanted to have a go…
Read MoreOften a simple image set can get across a positive message better than any amount of words, helping people really see success, aspiration and change. This is particularly true in the case of stories of carbon reduction and carbon targets.
Read MoreIreland has agreed to cut carbon emissions by at least 80% by 2050, compared to 1990 levels. We provided the visual interface for a web-tool that allows anyone to access and explore different future electricity and energy supply and demand options for the country.
Read MoreHow do you raise help students and staff better understand the carbon emissions associated with all the different buildings at their university? This prototype carbon and energy visualiser shows the real-time, monthly and annual carbon emissions associated with every building on the different campuses of the University of the West of England (UWE).
Read MoreAn unusual request from a successful USA start-up - could we find a simple way to show investors the exponential growth of their mobile phone money transactions in Mexico? Using dates and geo-location data for all transactions we created this simple short video.
Read MoreBristol Waste Company is keen to engage directly with households about the benefits of waste and litter minimisation and recycling. Real World Visuals has created two films that show the actual volumes of litter, recycling and recycling opportunities. The goal of the project is to elicit a measurable increase in waste minimisation and recycling and provide direct cost benefits to the council.
Read MoreHow can we make an abstract idea like 'the value of water' real? Research shows that tap water in the South West of England is typically 600 times cheaper than bottled water bought from a shop. This simple video was designed to get this message across to consumers.
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