The Power of Pictures: How Early Storytelling Shapes Us
Often the very first books we encounter are picture books, our first introduction to the power of rich visual language. While our books change, the power of this language doesn’t. We’ve reflected on visual language, from picture books to explainer videos and whiteboard animation.
What Is Visual Thinking?
Visual thinking is at the heart of whiteboard animation. It helps us to make information engaging, entertaining and memorable - but how does it work?
How Does Whiteboard Animation Balance Engagement And Accuracy?
When it’s done well, this combination allows whiteboard animation to explain complex ideas in an engaging and accessible way, expanding their reach and impact!
Increase Your Research Impact And REF Score With Whiteboard Animation
When it comes to creating change with your research, the higher your REF score, the better. Whiteboard animation can help you explain and share your findings in a way that explains them, taking them far and wide.
Digital Storytelling: 5 Ways To Become A Better Communicator With Animated Explainer Videos
Are you looking to take your business storytelling to the next level? Check out this whiteboard animation explainer video that will show you how digital storytelling can help your business achieve success.
Microplastics - Illustrating The Problem
Awareness plays a major role and at We are Cognitive, we are proud to have have used our creativity to make whiteboard animations that explain, draw attention to the problem and share the information with the public!
A Future For Us All: The Easter Eggs
In this blog, Andrew and Dan take us through some of their most meaningful and memorable moments during the making of Sir Ken Robinson’s ‘A Future For Us All’.
The BLT Episode 01: Liquid Thinkers - Calling time on Party-gators
The BLT combines our passion for visual thinking, the week’s news and our creative team to create a delicious visual treat for your feed every week!
12 Years Of Whiteboard Animation
In this blog, Andrew reflects on the origins of whiteboard animation, the RSA Animates and the journey that led to the creation of this new series, Talk To The Hand.
Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie?
Is ‘Die Hard’ a Christmas movie? We’ve seen the arguments on either side, but we’re still not sure. We created this whiteboard video to try and answer it once and for all!
What Type Of Animation Is Whiteboard Animation?
Animation has a massive range of styles and uses, ranging from blockbuster movies to niche comedy skits on YouTube. So, what type of animation is whiteboard animation?
Using Whiteboard Animation To Onboard Remote Employees
Starting a job in a new organisation can be a tricky experience. Whiteboard animation help when onboarding remote employees, combining storytelling with information and emotive connection.
Whiteboard Animation for Education: How It’s Used and Why It’s Effective
Whether you found remote learning to be a dream or a disaster, some aspects of it could be here to stay. One of these aspects is whiteboard animations in education. It’s something that has been explaining ideas since the early 2000s and could be the extra teaching assistant you’ve been looking for.
Ideas, Animation and Society
This year the RSA have won in the Webby Awards’ animation category for their RSA Shorts series. To celebrate this achievement, we asked the RSA’s Mairi Ryan and Abi Stephenson about the series and sharing ideas more broadly.
The RSA Shorts Series wins at the Webbys!
Recently we heard the excellent news that RSA have won a Webby Award, described by the New York Times as as ‘the Internet’s highest honor’.
Homeschooling Help: explainer animations to educate and entertain
At Cognitive we’ve gone through the back-catalogue and found some animations that we hope help you to educate and entertain your new students.
Explaining coronavirus through infographics and visual thinking
Coronavirus has had an impact on every aspect of our lives, in a way unprecedented in modern memory. It’s a complex topic, subjected to frequent change and misinformation.
Visualising and explaining Prof. Stephen Hawking's Supertranslations theory
Black Holes might not seem to be visually engaging at the outset. Ultimately there’s not a lot to work with when you think of a hole that swallows light so nothing can be seen. But for Cognitive this is exactly the sort of challenge we love. Hear from Andrew Park about how he and the team visually translated Prof Hawking’s final Black Hole theory of Supertranslations.
Stages of Samatha - Visualisation and Metaphor
It is interesting to see how the fundamental tools we use everyday at Cognitive, such as mapping out a story arc or using a metaphor to simplify and explain a complex idea, can be used in the pursuit of mental and spiritual improvement.