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A compilation of the final visualizations created for UKCEH, sat side by side on a plain cream background.

Data from nature, for natureUKCEH

Showcasing the UK’s deepest reservoir of environmental data

A frame from the video, showing several images or people in a circle in the centre with various icons approaching and bouncing off the central circle

Connecting the piecesUnitaid

Telling the story of one of global health’s unsung heroes.

A compilation of the final visualizations created for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, sat side by side on a plain green background.

Visualizing AIECMWF

Sketching became our common language with machine learning scientists to accurately visualize ECMWF’s complex AI-driven weather forecasting system.

A compilation of the final visualizations created for the Design Museum fellows, sat side by side on a plain blue background.

Design EcosystemThe Design Museum

The Design Museum was supporting five research fellows. We helped them distill their work into a single memorable visualization.

A colourful imagining of Visa's artificial intelligence as a blue circle floating in a white space filled with geometric shapes, each representing transaction data.

Artificial IntelligenceVisa

A series of animated explainers, to show how Visa’s AI tools have transformed financial security to make life simpler and safer.

A screenshot of the WHO COVID timeline in front of a blue background. The timeline is a bar chart of daily COVID cases with colourful bubbles under each one representing key events. Text boxes stick out of some of the event bubbles with more information on each event.

Timeline: WHO's COVID-19 responseWorld Health Organisation

A timeline revealing the speed at which science moved to meet this global health threat – and WHO’s role in coordinating the response.

A sci-fi style graphic of Earth, with two half sections of Earth either side at the edge of the image. Over each other is a sci-fi looking mesh with some grid squares colourd in some places.

Digital TwinsECMWF

Animations that reveal how ECMWF is using digital twins of Earth to understand the future of extreme weather and climate change.

A graphic showing a cross section of a landscape with mountains, rivers and the ocean. On that landscape are several circles that magnify ways ECMWF collect weather data like planes, satellites, radar and boats.

Forecasting the FutureECMWF

These simple, beautiful explainers reveal the predictive power of the world’s most accurate weather forecasting system.

Workshops, events and presentations

We regularly provide workshops and presentations that help people understand more about data, design and storytelling. Get in touch if you’d like to talk to us about this.

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Some of our press coverage

YCN magazine | You Can Now - The Learning Issue
D&AD | Data Visualization at the D&AD Awards
Creative Review | The story behind the studio
NPR | How global health has changed since you were born
Design week | Visualizations for a design survey
Digital Arts | Apocalypse when?
Fast Company | See your life through the lens of history
Creative Bloq | Find out how we're all going to die
BBC America | Visualizing Doctor Who
London Design Festival 2016 | Design-led data visualization

Selected books we feature in

Data Driven Storytelling by Nathalie Henry Riche, Christophe Hurter, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Sheelagh Carpendale | Introduction to data-driven storytelling
The Book of Circles by Manuel Lima | 'Stock Check' visualization
Data visualization for success by Steven Braun | Interviews with 40 experienced designers

Get in touch:hello@beyondwordsstudio.com

We turn complex topics into compelling visual stories on any platform

Filter projects

Data from nature, for natureUKCEH

Connecting the piecesUnitaid

Visualizing AIECMWF

Design EcosystemThe Design Museum

Artificial IntelligenceVisa

Timeline: WHO's COVID-19 responseWorld Health Organisation

Digital TwinsECMWF

Forecasting the FutureECMWF

Workshops, events and presentations

Some of our press coverage

Selected books we feature in

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Filter projects

Data from nature, for natureUKCEH

Connecting the piecesUnitaid

Visualizing AIECMWF

Design EcosystemThe Design Museum

Artificial IntelligenceVisa

Timeline: WHO's COVID-19 responseWorld Health Organisation

Digital TwinsECMWF

Forecasting the FutureECMWF