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News / 2012

Interview with Julia and Deroy on Startup Lab

Interview with Julia and Deroy on Startup Lab

Apr 24, 2012

Deroy and Julia are featured in a two part series on Startup Lab. They discuss how they and Hyperakt evolved, from their background as young illustration majors, with little experience in design and business, to the studio it is today. Julia and Deroy touch upon our relationship with Good Magazine, our work with ...
Our Ted Prize Manifesto on FPO

Our Ted Prize Manifesto on FPO

Apr 19, 2012

For Print Only is featuring the piece we made for TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). The brochure was the first print manifesto describing the TED Prize.See FPO's feature here
Core 77 Features our Champions League Poster

Core 77 Features our Champions League Poster

Apr 10, 2012

Our ever popular Champions League Bracket Poster was featured on Core 77 yesterday - looks like we have a new fan! Don't forget to check out the poster on sale on Kickstarter ...And read Core's article here!
Change.org Infographic on TechCrunch

Change.org Infographic on TechCrunch

Apr 10, 2012 | New Work, Press, Recognition

TechCrunch is featuring our recently created info graphic for Change.org. Change.org is a social networking site of nonprofits, that aims to empower activists around the world by connecting them to its rapidly growing group of 10 million users - the fastest growing site of its type. With social media a widely ...
Hyperakt Interviewed on Urban Times

Hyperakt Interviewed on Urban Times

Apr 06, 2012 | Press, Recognition

Urban Times released the first two parts of a multi-section series on Hyperakt which will be featured on Startup Lab. Alexander Phillips, the founder of Urban Times, lists our top 8 projects in recent years, including Voices of Youth for UNICEF, The Future of Car Sharing for The Collaborative Fund, info graphics for ...
FastCoDesign Challenges Us to Create NCAA Radial Brackets

FastCoDesign Challenges Us to Create NCAA Radial Brackets

Mar 30, 2012 | Press, Recognition

Our friends at FastCoDesign not only featured our new Champions League radial bracket poster (which, by the way, we're raising money for on Kickstarter), they prompted us to create a NCAA bracket poster in the same model. FastCo calls our design "space-efficient and attractive," because unlike the sprawling, spiderw ...
Core 77 Reviews Us on PBS' Typography Film

Core 77 Reviews Us on PBS' Typography Film

Mar 26, 2012

Core 77 wrote a review of the PBS mini-documentary "Typography", and highlighted Julia and Deroy's particular insight into how typography helps illustrate complex data in a crisp way. The article includes an image of our data visualization done for GOOD magazine. "Typography" is an intro into the many uses of ...
Huff Post Mentions Hyperakt

Huff Post Mentions Hyperakt

Mar 26, 2012 | Press, Recognition

We were mentioned as an example of an innovative design start up in a great piece on the Huffington Post Arts blog last week. The article discusses a new report from the Center for an Urban Future that underscores the importance of design education in strengthening innovation. The report finds that des ...
Complex Interviews Julia and Deroy

Complex Interviews Julia and Deroy

Mar 13, 2012 | Press, Recognition

Complex featured an interview with Deroy and Julia. Noah Davis visited the office on behalf of Complex, and chatted about our origins, process of development, and our most recent and exciting projects. The interview describes how Julia and Deroy met on their first day of class at Parsons. The two shared ...
FastCoDesign on Truth-Bending Infographics

FastCoDesign on Truth-Bending Infographics

Mar 08, 2012 | Press, Recognition

We're so thrilled to see a feature on our infographics on CoDesign today! The insightful article parses how graphs and charts, with their appearance of being just "the facts" can actually present a very calculated and carefully selected view of reality. Especially in this hyper-politicized time, the obligation t ...
3rd Ward Visits Us

3rd Ward Visits Us

Mar 02, 2012 | Press

3rd Ward popped into our studio recently for a little visit. It's always great to chat with like-minded folks! We got to hear a little bit about the infographic geeks they have over on their end, as well as show off some of our own. They particularly loved our work on "The Evolution of the ...
Core 77 In The Studio

Core 77 In The Studio

Mar 02, 2012 | Press

Core 77's lovely feature of us draws on their visit to our studio and conversation with Deroy and Julia. They did a great job capturing the laid back vibe of the office, and particularly enjoyed our music, bar, and backyard, perfect for summer grilling and get-togethers. Core 77 made sure to highlight our part ...
AIGANY Data Visualization Discussion

AIGANY Data Visualization Discussion

Feb 17, 2012 | Events

On February 23, AIGA NY hosted a discussion on data visualization with Hyperakt's own Julia and Deroy, as well as Martin Blinder of Tictrac. The conversation was moderated by Cliff Kuang, writer for GOOD, Wired, Popular Science, Nylon, Print, and a founding editor of Fast Company's Co.Design. Julia and ...
Collaborative Consumption at SMW

Collaborative Consumption at SMW

Feb 13, 2012

Hyperakt's Deroy Peraza was on a Social Media Week panel about "Collaborative Consumption" this week. Other members of the panel, which was moderated by Danny Alexander, included former NYTimes.com design director and co-founder of Mixel, Khoi Vinh, and Nicholson NY's Tom Nicholson. The discussion and Q&A session were ...
Featuring Teach for Studio 360

Featuring Teach for Studio 360

Feb 02, 2012 | Press

A variety of great websites, including CoDesign, GOOD, and EdWeek are featuring Teach. The project rebranded educators for Studio 360, hosted by Kurt Anderson. Studio 360 occasionally hires a design team to rethink an overused trope, bringing it up to the 21st century with fresh new concepts. Aft ...
Deroy & Julia Profiled on TNSChangemakers

Deroy & Julia Profiled on TNSChangemakers

Jan 18, 2012 | Hyperaktivists

Hyperakt's principals, Deroy Peraza and Julia Vakser Zeltser have been interviewed for a Changemaker Profile on The New School's Social Innovation website. Deroy and Julia are both alumni of Parsons, The New School for Design.The New School is a hub for social innovation in New York City and the world. The university ...
Brand New's Best of 2011 Includes VOY

Brand New's Best of 2011 Includes VOY

Jan 13, 2012 | Awards, Recognition

Our identity for UNICEF's Voices of Youth has been selected as one of the Best Identities of 2011 by Brand New, a popular blog about branding and rebranding. The identity was very popular with readers, having received the highest marks among all the identities published on the site throughout the year. 89% of readers rated ...
Awwwards Nominates Hyperakt for Agency of the Year

Awwwards Nominates Hyperakt for Agency of the Year

Jan 12, 2012 | Awards, Recognition

We've just been informed that we are among the 18 nominees from around the world for Awwwards Agency of the Year! How exciting!Awwwards are the awards that recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world. Their goal is to create a meeting point where web developers ...