The RSA Animates and Minimates

The RSA animate series has been viewed by audiences across the globe over 100 million times.

We’re very proud of having the opportunity to visualise the RSA’s revolutionary ideas, and profound messages in our whiteboard animation videos.

Visually Spreading the RSA Message

Founded in 1754, the RSA is one of the longest standing institutions with a rich and extensive history. Their work cuts across all sectors and demographics, from education and philosophy, to economics, language and more.

World-renowned scholars, thinkers, scientists, and other pioneers have been at the helm of the RSA, revolutionising thinking across several domains with their discoveries, inventions, and ideas which have shaped the world we live in today.

Our RSA Animates, educates, enlighten, and enrich the understanding of the RSA’s groundbreaking work in bite-sized, easy-to-digest nuggets of visual information that are a treat to watch.

Cognitive & RSA Animate

We’ve been collaborating with RSA since 2008. To date, we have made 21 RSA Animates, Shorts and Minimates. Each one is based on an edited talk given by a variety of speakers including Sir Ken Robinson (Changing Education Paradigms), Dan Pink (The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us) and Barbara Ehrenreich (Smile or Die). With over 100 million YouTube views, the RSA Animates series has been a great success, sharing fascinating information with people around the world. 

About the RSA

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, or RSA for short, was founded in 1754. From the outset its pioneering, forward-thinking spirit guided its commitment to enrich society through ideas and action. Charles Dickens, Benjamin Franklin and Karl Marx were all Fellows of the RSA, while current Fellows include   Helena Kennedy, Stephen Hawking and Dame Judy Dench. The Society has funded innovation and excellence in many fields from the invention of devices to sweep chimneys to the development of the first public examination system. Today their mission is to create the conditions for the enlightened thinking and collaborative action needed to address today's most pressing social challenges.

 

RSA Animate Series

In the RSA Animates you can see how we developed our whiteboard animation style overtime. Where once we literally filmed over the shoulder of our founder, Andrew Park as his now famous hairy hand drew, we now create whiteboard animations digitally. This makes the process smoother, gives us an endless colour palette and even more opportunity to add visual richness, and it’s not such a literal pain in the neck for our illustrators.

 

RSA Minimates

Cognitive Client Projects
A Framework For Change - Matthew Taylor and The RSA
A Framework For Change - Matthew Taylor and The RSA

Matthew Taylor has used his final lecture as CEO of the RSA to look at the social forces that shape our society and the relationship between different social sciences.

The Brink of Climate Catastrophe - David Wallace-Wells and The RSA
The Brink of Climate Catastrophe - David Wallace-Wells and The RSA

Journalist and author of The Uninhabitable Earth unpacks the reality and consequences of climate change in the latest RSA Minimate.

The Tyranny of Merit - Michael Sandel and the RSA
The Tyranny of Merit - Michael Sandel and the RSA

Harvard University Professor of Political Philosophy Michael Sandel examines the reality and consequences of our meritocracies in this RSA Minimate.

Sleep or Die - Matthew Walker and the RSA
Sleep or Die - Matthew Walker and the RSA

Sleep isn’t a choice, it is a basic need and part of living a long and healthy life. Professor Matthew Walker explains the grave consequences of not getting enough sleep in this whiteboard animation, part of the RSA Minimate series.

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