A one-man design & animation studio in New York City delivering delight to smart and fun clients across the world. Scroll down for everything!
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CLIENT: STACK OVERFLOW
Loops and videos illustrating concepts and products from the 10 million member strong knowledge database site for programmers and engineers.
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CLIENT: DJI
Animated social media campaign video highlighting how commercially available DJI drones could be very effective at detecting land mines.
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CLIENT: NHS CHICAGO
The wealth gap and home ownership rates for different populations in Chicago are explored in these illustrations integrated with simple data graphics.
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CLIENT: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Motion graphics for 44-minute WSJ film about how the coronavirus pandemic ripped through American business during the fateful month of March 2020.
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CLIENT: PINKERTON
An expansive, visually coherent collection of animated short films on a wide range of crime statistics and phenomena, produced over a period of 18 months.
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CLIENT: DOT DOT DOT MEDIA
Colorful animated portraits of influential people in the technology sector, for the launch of First Contact, an interview podcast hosted by iHeartRadio.
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CLIENT: STACK OVERFLOW
Animated product video introducing OverflowAI, which combines AI tools with community-validated knowledge to deliver trusted answers.
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CLIENT: CNN
Groundbreaking (though ultimately silly) circular animated data visualization translating the ups and downs of the stock market into musical notes.
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INDEPENDENTLY PRODUCED
Leveraging an AI prompt to 3D file generator, these varnished portraits of celebs kissing their doppelgängers are deliberately broken. Featured on It's Nice That.
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CLIENT: VOX.COM
Animated data visualization and 3D storytelling environment showing how the burdens of war are shouldered by fewer Americans than ever before.
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CLIENT: NBC NEWS
Hand-drawn animated phone interviews of various experts explaining political realities and curiosities ahead of the pivotal 2016 Presidential election.
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INDEPENDENTLY PRODUCED
Scratchy and loose hand-drawn meditation on a musical D/s relationship. Kind of a sketch for a cerebral erotic series for people who like foreign films.
Bård Edlund is an artist and a freelance designer & animator living and working in New York City, whose diverse projects have been written about on the sites of The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Digg, Flowing Data, Salon, BuzzFeed, Fast Company, Jezebel, Gawker, GOOD Magazine, The Awl, The Hollywood Reporter, Cinema Blend, Swissmiss, and Kottke.org, among many others.
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Clients include Doctors Without Borders, Vox, Pepsico, AT&T, Stack Overflow, DJI, NBC News, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Fortune, Investopedia, Quartz, Skillshare, Barnard and CancerCare.
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EDLUNDART works have been exhibited in New York, Austin, Amsterdam, and Singapore.
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