Portfolio

Here it is. A snippet of work that merely scratches the surface of what we’ve done over the past thirteen years.

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Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago

Deemed “a scholar’s haven”, Social Sciences is one of four divisions of learning at the University of Chicago. The departments within the division are some of the best you’ll find anywhere—Economics, Sociology, and History to name a few—known for their intellectual excellence and rigorous inquiry.

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Culture Coast Homepage detail

Culture Coast Website

Chicago’s Culture Coast—a collection of neighborhoods on the city’s South Side—is a destination for arts and architecture and home to jazz pioneers, literary legends, and visionary artists. Not to mention it is the place Chief Cultural Attaché Obama calls home.

The Culture Coast Network celebrates and promot…   more »

Plasma acceleration

symmetry Online April 2013

Hang Ten! Yeah, we’re stoked when physics and surfing metaphors are combined. You too? Check out April’s symmetry Magazine feature, Explain It in 60 Seconds. It gives you the lowdown on plasma acceleration by likening it’s waves to those mac-daddies at the Maverick surf contest. Gaze upon our beautiful beachfr…   more »

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A portal to discovery; DESY Photon Science

There are times when it makes sense to remodel rather than raze a whole structure. In this case, we were enlisted by DESY, one of the world’s leading accelerator centers, to redesign an important tool for their users – the web portal for the Photon Science research area.

http://photon-science.desy.de/

We engineered ea…   more »

We're collaborating internationally. Bam!

Designing the World’s Next Great Particle Accelerator

What do you get when the two next-generation particle collider projects join forces? A new logo and tagline of course. Oh yeah, and a new level of global partnership that seeks to understand the deepest secrets of the universe. Whoa.

That’s right, it’s the Linear Collider Collaboration, or LCC as friends like to call it. …   more »

Logan Art Center's curator, Monika Szewczyk, having an artistic experience.

Interactive Q+A Generator for the Logan Art Center

What does it all mean? Is this art? What inspires you? Why is it satisfying to ask questions on a yellow surface?

Sandbox created a blank slate for gallery goers at a recent exhibit at UChicago’s Logan Art Center gallery. Visitors were invited to make an entry in their own handwriting through an iPad touchscreen. The tablet becam…   more »

Neutrino Beam Illustration

How to Make a Neutrino Beam

Behold the newest deconstruction piece for symmetry which includes a stellar illustration and one of the best animations we’ve ever done. Enjoy learning some science. It’s important….   more »

Voyage to SNOLAB

Voyage to SNOLAB

In symmetry Magazine’s newest feature, symmetry explores the growing number of scientists clamoring to join teams of researchers at the one and only laboratory located a mile and a half beneath scenic Sudbury, Ontario.

Sandbox created a series of illustrations for the SNOLAB feature, all of which can be viewed in the gallery to yo…   more »

What Else Could the Higgs Be?

What Else Could the Higgs Be?

Symmetry Magazine is unpacked and settled in to its new home on the internet. With that, the publishing schedule has been rejiggered so features, editorials, and other items are published on a daily basis. We here at Sandbox are cranking out work all the time for this new format, so from now on, we’ll be posting the lastest and gre…   more »

UChicago Campus and Student Life Website

UChicago Campus and Student Life Website

This site is BIG and responsive. It’s as big as your monitor and as small as your iPhone. Go ahead and stretch it out and scrunch it up. It also makes a big splash. Like when you yell “cannonball” and jump in a pool. Big and splashy, yet compact and helpful.

UChicago’s fall quarter just began, and greeting new and …   more »