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We combine design flair with editorial rigour & narrative nous to create animated explainers, motion graphics, infographics and multimedia communications pieces that really succeed.

Storyburst is a creative content agency with journalistic craft at its core.

We are old school sub-editors and dogged reporters with new school skills in digital design and visual narrative. We are here to tell important stories in whatever format will best ensure that they are heard, understood and acted upon in the modern media landscape. As the tagline says: vital information needs vibrant presentation...

We do MOTION DESIGN: short animated videos that explain your ideas or summarise your report simply, dynamically & engagingly.

We do LIVE CONTENT, as Visual Newsdesk – attending conferences and events to provide contemporaneous visual reports that burst with colour and atmosphere, with a laser focus on quality information, newsworthiness and accuracy.

We create INFOGRAPHICS and SOCIAL IMAGES: A visual treatment that ensures your statistics and key messages grab attention and are quickly absorbed and retained.

We write, edit and design all manner of PRINT & DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS: brochures, reports, books, appumentaries, multimedia articles & blog posts – whatever's required...

If you have a story, get in touch and we'll find the brightest, strongest way of telling it...

How can we help?

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Animation / Motion Design

Create a short animation to explain an idea or summarise report findings simply, dynamically & engagingly. You can check out our showreel on Vimeo and get in touch about bringing your idea to life

Graphic Design & Copy

Infographics and social images:
A visual treatment that ensures your statistics
and key messages grab attention & are quickly absorbed and retained.

Print and digital publications: We write, edit and design brochures, annual reports, books, appumentaries, multimedia articles & blog posts. Email to request the writing samples you'd like to see, or leaf through a few articles here

Live Content
with Visual Newsdesk

Our live team attends and reports from events & conferences – providing crafted, edited, beautifully designed social media images, gifs and infographics in real time for distribution on Twitter, Snapchat, or wherever your live on-site and global digital audience is at.

If you've planned a private meeting, we can document it for presentation in the form of a summary infographic or a complete visual report screened live to the internal audience.

We can also create a large-scale drawing on paper to capture the discussion.

We can work with you on deep-dive follow-up content such as rich articles and animations. Take a look at our Twitter feed to get a flavour of what we've been working on recently and drop us a line to discuss your next event!

Take a look at the work...

Services

Work

Science Foundation Ireland

Following a competitive tendering process, Storyburst was commissioned by Science Foundation Ireland to produce a series of themed infographics and social images as part of the Science Rising campaign of 2016. These can be viewed at http://sciencerising.sfi.ie/infographics/all/ - themes covered by Storyburst were Health, Careers, Agriculture, Energy & Environment, and Sports & Rehabilitation.

Visual Newsdesk at the Youth Summit

Visual Newsdesk created live and prepared content for social media to promote engagement in the National Youth Summit in November 2016. The event was organised by the National Youth Council of Ireland and Concern, and a blog featuring the graphics we produced can be found here: http://blog.concern.net/creating-a-kinder-world-at-the-youth-summit

VisualNewsdesk for InterTradeIreland

Visual Newsdesk produced live content and a follow-up infographic to summarise the information discussed at an event to highlight opportunities under Horizon 2020 SC2 Rural Renaissance, in October 2016 in Dundalk. The summary piece is at the link below; while our full visual summary can be accessed via the first link button on that page: http://www.intertradeireland.com/rural_renaissance/

Electrical Safety First

Storyburst has created social images and infographics for a number of campaigns by British home safety charity, Electrical Safety First. These can be viewed on the charity's Twitter page and on the relevant campaign pages on its website. Some images from the most recent campaign can be found here: https://www.pinterest.com/officialesc/spot-the-fake/

Bond v Bond

Storyburst created motion graphic segments for a lively, statistics-based video by The Economist's film unit. These were also used as part of a story on the publisher's Snapchat Discover channel in December 2016. The original video can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5y6YxUlmaE

Therese at MODE Summit 2015

Therese presented a full academic paper at MODE 2015, which took place in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, and which will be hosted next year by Ohio State University. The book of the full conference proceedings, including Therese's paper (Motion Graphics as a Tool for Journalists in a World After Newspapers), is published by Routledge/Focal Press and can be accessed at the highlighted link on http://www.modesummit.com

Visual Newsdesk @ Concern Debates

Visual Newsdesk created live and prepared content to promote engagement and add to the excitement and anticipation at the Concern Debates Final on May 18, 2016. Some of the gifs and images created can be viewed on the Concern Debates twitter under the relevant date: https://twitter.com/ConcernDebates

Rounding – Animated Explainer

WHPR's client, Central Bank of Ireland, needed to make sure that the general public was aware of and understood its Rounding initiative. As part of the communications campaign, Storyburst's motion graphics team created an animated explainer, telling the story of what was happening, when, why and how, in a bright & accessible way. You can see the full video at www.betterallround.ie

Health Index 2016 - motion graphic

Storyburst created an animated infographic as the executive summary to a report by WHPR's client, Pfizer, into health attitudes in Ireland. The video can be viewed here: http://www.pfizer.ie/pfizer_health_index.cfm

The Road To Berlin: The Economist

Motion overlays for The Road To Berlin - a video by The Economist about the refugee crisis.

Carbery Annual Report Design

WHPR commissioned Storyburst to work on a refreshed annual report design for its client, Carbery.

Pfizer Corporate Motion Graphic

WHPR commissioned Storyburst to create a motion graphic and a static infographic to tell the story of its client Pfizer's presence in Ireland. The animation can be viewed here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmPXnXtaZPk and the static infographic is included here - http://www.pfizer.ie/about_pfizer_in_ireland.cfm

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Science Foundation Ireland

Following a competitive tendering process, Storyburst was commissioned by Science Foundation Ireland to produce a series of themed infographics and social images as part of the Science Rising campaign of 2016. These can be viewed at http://sciencerising.sfi.ie/infographics/all/ - themes covered by Storyburst were Health, Careers, Agriculture, Energy & Environment, and Sports & Rehabilitation.