Innovation by Design Awards 2016 | Fast Company

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When and How You Will Die

Finalist

IBM Sports Insights Central

Anaptár 2016

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Creators: Local Projects Jake Barton - Principal and Founder; Keeli Shaw - Project Director; Oriol Ferrer Mesià - Lead Creative Technologist; Gal Sasson - Creative Technologist; Eric Mika - Creative Director; CJ DiMaggio - Creative Technologist; Rona Binay - Lead Graphic Designer; The Tech Museum Romie Littrell, Curator / Project Director - Health and Biotech; Anja Scholze, Biotech Experience Designer; Maryanne Mwangi, Project Manager; Dan Streelman, Interactive Exhibit Developer; Chris Wang, Senior Exhibit Designer; Don Pohlman, Vice President of Exhibits at The Tech Museum of Innovation; Jorge Sua, Senior Engineering Manager; Mike Drennan, Software Engineer; Ping Tang, Software Engineer; Emil So, Senior Engineer
Agency: Local Projects

Data USA

Datawheel, MIT Macro Connections

Dear Data

Destinations on Google

Editions at Play

Facebook Reactions

Google, Evolved

GrubHub

Helia

"High Yield, Future Tense: Cracking the Code of Speculative Debt"

Instagram's New App Icons

The Met Brand Identity and Audience Engagement

Mallory MicroPlus

Mapillary

OFFF Film Titles

Pick Me Up Type Tool

The Architecture of Radio

Viceland

Budweiser Redesign

The New School Identity

Zocdoc

Office of Baby, Franklyn

Honorable Mention

IBM Developer

Roads to Rome

"Closed Worlds" Exhibition

Next Generation Database and Visualization Technologies built on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)

Bluewolf

Type Snap

VSCO Rebrand

Rivella Brand Identity

Common Sans

Memoire

Leafs By Snoop Identity and Packaging

versus 0:02 [gridiron]

Subspotting

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