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Work with us

2nd February 2016

We are looking for designers to work with us on a range of projects in 2016. Who we want Most of our work is digital, that is where your expertise should be. We are interested in the design of services and applications – beyond just ‘data-viz’ one-shots. Our work responds to the needs of the business problem. Our 2016 pipeline […]

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BT Sport Competition Shortlist

27th January 2016

We have been selected to present at BT Infinity Labs – BT Sport themed competition. We’ll be showing Football Brain – our next generation football (and other sports) analytics product. It’s a football-mad month, with a big project with UEFA ongoing as well as a rather excellent book project ongoing too. Football Brain brings together […]

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Working with Tesco

9th December 2015

We are very happy to be working with Tesco. Most people would be aware of how seriously Tesco takes understanding data and we are glad to be helping them out with a project in that area. Updates coming in the New Year!

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Award for London Squared

3rd December 2015

Our mapping project London Squared was awarded last night in the Information is Beautiful Awards, sponsored by Kantar. It was a competitive field and we are all happy that this work continues to be recognised.  The project, a collaboration with Future Cities Catapult equalises London borough areas to better display data. Since the collaboration, we […]

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Working with UEFA

24th November 2015

We are very excited to be starting a new project with UEFA. It’s early days yet, but it will be great to apply learnings from other recent sports projects to this work. More soon…

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How we talk about new work

23rd June 2015

We are going to start announcing new clients and projects on the journal section of the site. These posts are aimed at informing clients and potential employees where our experience and expertise is developing. We will normally announce clients when the work is finished, but occasionally there will be longer projects where we can draw attention to an ongoing […]

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Rapid Prototyping the Connected Museum

18th June 2015

We worked on projects with two of London’s leading museums that focused on rapid prototyping practices used elsewhere in the industry. These quick projects that deliver results and actionable visitor insight are very suited to current financial realities and mitigate delivery risk. Both projects have involved thinking about the role of the museum in 2015 and how […]

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London Squared Site

29th April 2015

[ Note, October 2019: This post is out of date. The latest London Squared site can be found HERE ] We have launched a new site to show our work on the London Squared project. The site will show our experiments as well as examples of the map in use in the wild. We have developed […]

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AtF featured in new book Communication Design

3rd February 2015

We are featured in the newly published Communication Design: Insights from the Creative Industries by Derek Yates and Jessie Price.  The book contains interviews with design agencies on how they are working in 2015. We discuss the peculiarities of user-centred design for data applications, referring to various case studies including the GDS prototyping for their Performance Platform. And […]

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Working with Redburn

We are currently working with Redburn, Europe’s leading independent equity research and broking firm. Working with Redburn we have been able to build on our earlier work in this area and have deepened our understanding of how institutional investors consume data and ideas in the digital world.  We have developed a good understanding of how […]

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