About
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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...
Image by Intermedia Ireland
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!
Services
Work
Production on a series of online events and a mini-conference for InterTradeIreland as part of the All-Island Innovation Programme. Example session at the link.
A project for ReputationInc to create the visual storytelling for www.understandvaccines.com based on script developed by RepInc for their client, MSD, and in collaboration with web designer, Michael Joyce. The site uses parallax scrolling, pop-ups and video backgrounds to create an engaging, immersive and interactive story about the process of developing vaccines.
We created a series of animations in formats including portrait and landscape for Concern to raise awareness of the impact that Covid19 is having in the developing world, and to tell the story of how Concern is responding.
A series of animated gifs for ReputationInc for the #KnowHPVForAll social media account
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
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. Additional work commissioned by SFI has included large-scale print materials and illustrated branded goods for decoration and promotional use at the organisation's marquee at the National Ploughing Championships.
Animation for a number of campaigns by Sightsavers. Illustrations by Ruth Graham. "Bright For Sight" animation at the link; and tax-efficient giving explainer here: https://bit.ly/3k7ewou
Design of a hardback book commemorating 100 years of the Irish College of Ophthalmology
Visual Newsdesk created live and prepared content to promote engagement and add to the excitement and anticipation at the Concern Debates Finals in 2016-2018. Some of the gifs and images created can be viewed in our blog (linked below) about the 2017 event.
Motion overlays for The Road To Berlin - a video by The Economist about the refugee crisis.
Detailed two-page infographic for Edelman's healthcare client to show developments in newborn screening across Europe. Included a full chart of 50 diseases plus extensive referencing on the reverse side.
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
Contact
Tel: +353 86 817 6609 /
+44 7786 242 139