We often inhabit places without knowing how our activities shape the natural landscape. So map-based stories that visualise what is happening beneath our feet and in the air around us can be helpful. These two videos for Somerset Wildlife Trust are good examples.
Read MoreElectric vehicles - the raw materials
Electric vehicles are at the heart of the clean energy transition. But as prices reduce and manufacturers increase their model line ups where are the raw materials needed to produce rapidly increasing volumes of EVs going to come from?
Read MoreWhat’s the carbon footprint of cement?
The global cement / concrete supply chain currently produces a disproportionate amount of greenhouse gas emissions. Innovative solutions that make cement and concrete production and usage sustainable are urgently needed. But how do you bring together different technology, finance and academic stakeholders to rapidly reduce those emissions?
Read MoreAll forests are not the same
Primary ‘old growth’ forests are unique and irreplaceable. But how do you get that message across to governments, policymakers and corporations? And the message that not all forests are the same?
Materials in a mobile phone with pennies for scale
What's in a phone?
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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60 Million Unwanted Christmas Gifts
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.
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Playing with Ultrasonic Levitation
If 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 MoreVisualising Plastic in the Mediterranean
Our 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!
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Visualising people not numbers
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 MoreVisualising waste worth £3 million
West 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 MoreExploring Ireland’s energy future
Ireland 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 MoreInvisible payments made real
An 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 MoreVisualising Bristol's Waste
Bristol 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 MoreThe value of tap water
How 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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