Upperquad uses art and interactive as a storytelling medium to illustrate The Current’s research on conspiracy theories.

The Current 005 - Conspiracy Theories Released

Upperquad's latest collaboration with Jigsaw has launched

The Current is an online publication outlining today’s digital threats and solutions. The latest issue explores conspiracy theories, which have legitimized violence, impaired public health, and undermined democratic governance.

Using art and interactive as a storytelling medium, Upperquad presented Jigsaw's research in a way that was informative, accessible and compelling.

Read the issue at <a href="https://jigsaw.google.com/the-current/conspiracy-theories/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">jigsaw.google.com/the-current/conspiracy-theories/</a>

The Current 005 - Conspiracy Theories

Creative Boom & Print review Upperquad's identity for We the Power, a documentary from Patagonia

Creative Boom & Print Review We the Power Identity

Upperquad's identity work for We The Power gets reviewed by Creative Boom and Print Magazine

We The Power, a documentary film and initiative by Patagonia, encourages viewers to imagine a future of citizen-led, community energy initiatives that help combat energy poverty and put power, money, and decision-making back into the hands of individuals and communities; empowering people to join, invest, create, or lobby for localized energy systems in their towns.

Creative Boom

Print Magazine

Read the reviews on <a href="https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/we-the-power/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Creative Boom</a> and <a href="https://www.printmag.com/branding-identity-design/ready-we-the-power-by-patagonia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Print</a> or get deep into [our case study](/work/we-the-power)

We the Power

Capturing the story of one of the world's largest private endowment, building a world where everyone has the power to shape their lives.

Ford Foundation

Upperquad explores a design system in collaboration with the Ford Foundation.

Over eighty years, the Ford Foundation has sought to reduce poverty and injustice, strengthen democratic values, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. Uppequad worked closely with the Ford Foundation's brand team to develop a new visual and storytelling approach.

As part of our process, we immersed ourselves deeply in understanding the organization. We actively engaged with different teams at the Ford Foundation. We looked at challenges, opportunities and audience, translating brand characteristics into visual themes. Upperquad approached brand colors, focus colors, iconography and illustrations with an eye for consistency and accessibility.

The collaboration focused on the home page and presented a first draft of a design system.

Explore more at <a href="https://www.fordfoundation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fordfoundation.org</a>.

A generative poster project and gallery from Upperquad.

Hello from Here

Hello From Here is a generative poster project and gallery.

Upperquad launched a creative experiment that allows anyone to make a poster, just by inputting a city and interacting with artwork generated by real-time weather data. Every poster gets added to a gallery of people saying hello from around the world.

When you enter the name of a city, the generator creates artwork based on real-time data, such as temperature and weather. You can then interact with the poster to make it your own, before submitting it to a gallery of posters from places near and far.

In addition to the website, we ran an outdoor media campaign in the streets of Berlin with 34 custom posters, and sent beautiful holographic art prints to our friends across the globe.

We chose typography called Bandeins Strange for its abstract qualities in some letterforms, giving it a more interesting texture with kinetic motion applied. On the technical side, we used React on the front-end and Firebase for the gallery back-end. The generative posters are a complex combination of kinetic type (using p5.js), image processing, and cursor-movable 3D shapes (using the ThreeJS library), all generated based on data fetched from various weather and map APIs.

Hello from Here combines boundary pushing design, type and technology. Upperquad is always making things that reach new audiences and extend our capabilities.

On <a href="https://www.awwwards.com/sites/hello-from-here" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Awwwards.</a>

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