Information Design
In an age of information overload, organizations must use design principles that ensure management reports, text, pictures, and data get the time and attention they deserve. VRI gives clients concrete design strategies for presenting quantitative and qualitative information on paper (in printed reports) and in projected light environments (PowerPoints, Websites, and stand-alone apps). Handouts and work samples are supplied and small group exercises are provided upon request; critiques and re-design strategies are also offered upon request.
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- Information Design Training
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- Conference Seminars • On-site Training
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- Selected Training Topics
A professionally designed logo (static or animated) matches best with a company’s marketing, web presence, and customer needs. The VisualResearch creative team provides critical brand styling that is necessary for a company's identity on both print and digital platforms. Whether you're in need of a new logo or a redesign of a current one, our process of discovering your company's unique look and feel is always our goal.
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- Brand Development
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- Logos, Static and Animated Logos and Imaging
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- Animated Logos
Explained by Neal B. Kauder, President, VRI and produced and directed by Emily-Anne Hall, Art Director, VisualResearch, Inc. With kinetic imaging and design assistance from Mitchell Craft and Melanie Felix.
A demonstration of how to transform complex data into a more clear and compelling story. Effects are executed with green screen, Cinema4D, and After Effects. We show how to effectively integrate data, charts, color, live video, and animation. The video focuses on communicating "clarity over complexity" by making data-based graphics more visually accessible--using imagery, music, and animation to physically interact and "touch" data that floats in an infinite white space.
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- Communicating Complexity with Clarity
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- Motion Design, Digital Illustration, Infovideo
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- Video
Brier Ridge is a new company that required complete branding, identity, and website design and build services. The result is a parsimonious website design, with a simple UI and no navigation buttons; the user navigates only with vertical scrolling. With image sliders for each business line, a WIX platform allows non-IT company staff to quickly update all imagery and announcements.
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- Brier Ridge Kennels & Outfitters
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- Branding • Website
- Link Website
Anongos Insurance Agency is a new Richmond, VA. based insurance company that required complete branding, identity, and website design services. This was designed on a WIX platform to allow the flexibility of editing the website by non-technical company employees.
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- Anongos Insurance
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- Branding • Website
- Link Website
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- History of Sports and Doping
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- Motion Design, Digital Illustration, Infovideo
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- Video
VRI integrated text, data, image, motion, music & voice to design and produce infovideos. The inHealth story is told by visually explaining the suite of health care and management services offered. How MedVirginia operates a Health Information Exchange (HIE) is also described using an animated graphic.
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- inHealth and MedVirginia
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- Conceptual Design • Infovideos • Print
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- Full Video (4:30) | Teaser (:30) | Brochure
Tanks Trucks & Trailers services the mid-atlantic region of the United States. Headquartered in Richmond, VA., TT&T focuses on refined fuel and propane delivery units, and represents manufacturers of septic tanks, propane service trucks, and petroleum trailers. The heavy usage of images and video worked well when designed on a WIX platform. VRI rebranded TT&T’s image by redesigning their logo, signage, and web presence.
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- Tanks Trucks & Trailers
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- Re-Branding • Website • Video
- Link Website
VRI developed an interactive, highly visual tool for internal management to measure sales and trading performance for a regional capital markets firm (pseudonym Tanvis). This type of data visualization tool is easily scalable, and appeals to a wide variety of industries and organizations who wish to make high-level, data-based decisions.
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- Data Visualization Dashboard
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- User Interface Design • Data Visualization
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- Website
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- 160 Years of Alcohol Consumption
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- Conceptual Design • Video • Research
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- Video | PDF Graphic
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- Courtroom Exhibits
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- Courtroom Exhibits • Slideshows • Models
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- Engine Testing | Exhaust | Test Plan | Resumé
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- Elder Courts Toolkit
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- Branding & Packaging Design • Publishing
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- Books | Cover | Interior | PDF 1 | PDF 2
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- ABA - Collateral Consequences
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- User Interface Design • Website Design
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- Website
This two minute info-video was developed by VRI to provide a visually appealing historical view of how the USDA has made changes to their recommended food groupings. The data and imagery spans 70 years; it begins with the creation of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) and ends with current USDA recommendations.
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- The Evolution of USDA Food Guides
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- Conceptual Design • Video • Research
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- Video | Methodology
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- International Framework for Court Excellence
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- Print • Website Design • PowerPoints
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- Website | PDF | Summary PDF | Brochure
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- Redmond Asset Management
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- Website Design
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- Website
Data Analysis
OrtusIP is an innovated capital markets firm that specializes in analyzing and valuing intangible assets. VRI’s data analytics and visualization capacity aligns well with the OrtusIP’s business model. VRI is also involved in website design and deployment using a WIX platform.
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- OrtusIP
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- Data Analytics • Data Visualization • Website
- Link Website
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- Where does America Stand?
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- Infographic Design & Data Analysis
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- Website | Methodology
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- Judicial Salary Tracker
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- Data Analysis • Web App Development
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- Web Application
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- Yale Law School Poster Session Design
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- Conceptual Design • Infographic
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- Poster
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- Survey of Judicial Salaries
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- Data Analysis • Report Layout & Design
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- Vol.37 N.1 | Vol.36 N.2
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- KPMs Virginia Department of Health Professions
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- Data Analysis • Graphic Design
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- Crime in Virginia: The 40-Year Picture
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- Research • Conceptual & Graphic Design
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