JESS3

https://jess3.com/

Last activity: 29.12.2014

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JESS3 was founded in 2007 in Washington DC - a creative agency focused on visual storytelling and data visualization. Using creative design and modern tech, they turn complex topics and large data sets into works of art. Their diverse team is lucky to work with amazing brands like Google, Nike, ESPN & NASA. Their work has spanned from stop motion animation for Google, a graphic novel about Steve Jobs for Forbes, short films for Wikipedia, to mural design and painting for Facebook.

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Location

United States, District of Columbia, Washington

Employees

11-50

Phone

+1 571-213-4308

Founded date

1982

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Feb 5, 2013	Don’t Have Time to Read? Gui.de Turns Your News into Video	Armed with $1 million in seed funding, Miami startup Gui.de is launching in private alpha today with an iPad and Android app that turns your news content into video. Gui.de is led by founder and CEO Freddie Laker, a serial entrepreneur who ...
Jan 26, 2012	Keen On… Caleb Melby: The Zen of Steve Jobs (TCTV)	Walter Isaacson has unleashed a torrent of new books about Steve Jobs and Apple. But nobody has written anything quite like Caleb Melby’s The Zen of Steve Jobs, a graphic novel conceived and developed by the creative agency JESS3 that chart...
Dec 1, 2011	How infographics jumped the shark	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! We’ve tumbled headlong into the era of infographi...
Dec 1, 2011	How infographics jumped the shark	We’ve tumbled headlong into the era of infographics. Visual presentations of data are everywhere, popping up on every type of online publication (even VentureBeat). There are so many infographics on the Internet that some bloggers are lashi...
Oct 26, 2011	Meet the Maine Representative Who Counts Jezebel Among Her Favorite Blogs	As things heat up for the 2012 election, I am excited to bring more stories to Forbes that focus on women getting more elected seats. Following my interview with Mindy Finn, political consultant and campaign extraordinaire, I am excited to ...
Sep 19, 2011	Ad innovation takes the stage at Y Combinator event (video)	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! A few lucky people got a peek at the future of on...
Sep 19, 2011	Ad innovation takes the stage at Y Combinator event (video)	A few lucky people got a peek at the future of online advertising recently, thanks to a Y Combinator event. Close to 200 entrepreneurs, marketers, publishers, and venture capitalists packed Y Combinator headquarters in Mountain View on Sept...
Jul 13, 2011	Visually Launches To Automate The Making Of Infographics	The whiz kids behind Mint’s infographics, Stewart Langille and Lee Sherman are today launching the first startup that solely focuses on mass producing infographics, Visually. Users who visit Visually this morning can see over 2000 infograph...
Jul 12, 2011	Infographics: Anticipation Builds For New Visualization Tool & Community	People love data visualization; when done well, it communicates new knowledge about otherwise inaccessible information in new and pleasing ways. Good visualizations can be efficient and effective; bad visualizations can be seductive and dec...
May 20, 2011	Infographic: A Look At The Size And Shape Of The Geosocial Universe In 2011	Thanks to Jesse Thomas of interactive design agency JESS3, we now have an updated look at the structure of the geosocial universe as it exists in anno domini 2011. It wasn’t so long ago that the International Astronomical Union booted Pluto...
May 3, 2011	Facebook's Social Widgetization Of The Web, In A Sweet, Sweet Infographic	On April 21st, Facebook celebrated the 1st birthday of its now ubiquitous “Like” button, and promptly shared the news that 10,000 sites are, like, using the plugin every day. The social networking behemoth then continued its parade of socia...
Jan 18, 2011	The State Of Wikipedia (Video + Infographic)	Wikipedia just celebrated its tenth birthday. As a self-proclaimed fan of the site, I wanted to share with you this video, made for the occasion as Wikipedia enters its second decade. The ‘State Of Wikipedia’ video is part of the ‘State Of’...
Dec 7, 2010	The Follow On Round Birthday Party	Rachel Sklar is one of the women leading the charge on #changetheratio, a cause I am totally and completely behind. She's also the editor at large at Mediaite and the founder of Charitini. When Rachel saw that we are doing the AVC Donors Ch...
Nov 3, 2010	T-Minus 140 and Counting: @NASA’s Tweetup Program	There is something of a disconnect between those who believe NASA, the U.S. space agency, to be the coolest thing since lined paper and those who find it thunderously irrelevant. In order to bridge that gap, NASA has instituted a series of ...
Oct 27, 2010	This Election Day, Foursquare Is Going To Be All Over The Map	The clock is counting down until November 2, when American citizens will flock (hopefully) to their local polling places to cast their votes for the mid-term elections. And you can bet some of them will be checking in on Foursquare. To mark...
Oct 23, 2010	Foursquare won’t be outdone, gets its own astronaut	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Just a week after competitor Gowalla teamed up wi...
Oct 23, 2010	Foursquare won’t be outdone, gets its own astronaut	Just a week after competitor Gowalla teamed up with NASA to give users a few new check-in badges to chase, popular mobile game Foursquare has taken the idea to the next level, announcing it too is working with the government agency. Yesterd...
Oct 22, 2010	Video: The First Ever Foursquare Check-In From Space	Earlier today, we wrote about the first ever ‘check-in’ from space, when NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock used Foursquare from the International Space Station. And now we’ve got video footage. Remember, he’s 220 miles away from Earth, and he’s ...
Oct 22, 2010	Houston, We've Had A Check-In: NASA Astronaut Just Used Foursquare From Space	If ever there was a time for Foursquare to give someone a badge, this is it: International Space Station Commander and NASA Astronaut Doug Wheelock has just checked-in from space using Foursquare, marking the first time a location-based app...
Oct 14, 2010	Houston, we’ve got check-ins: Gowalla and NASA team up	Popular mobile check-in game Gowalla announced a partnership today with government space agency NASA. While a mobile game and a space agency might not be the most likely of pairs, the two have joined forces to offer a country-wide scavenger...
Mar 26, 2010	JESS3 Is Fusing The Garbage Pail Kids With Silicon Valley, With Awesome Results	Silicon Valley — long home to an array of eccentric personalities and world-changing companies — is finally getting the irreverent caricatures it deserves. JESS3, the popular design firm run by Jesse Thomas, is putting together a set of col...
Mar 3, 2010	TechCrunch Takes Over YouTube For A Day	If you head over to YouTube right now, you may find that the videos on the homepage are significantly better than usual. Well, maybe not — but at least they’ll have a strong bias for startups, Silicon Valley, and the tech industry in genera...
Sep 15, 2009	Facebook inches for Twitter with friend tags	The biggest social networking site just implemented @Twitter tags While Twitter busies away making itself look prettier, Facebook rolls out another update replicating one of Twitter’s most basic tools. Facebook users can now tag their frien...
Aug 27, 2009	Nine Startups Present To The DC Tech Community At TECH Cocktail	This post was written by Frank Gruber, who cofounded TECH cocktail, a startup that looks to help people involved with technology connect at events, which it throws around the country. Tonight’s event is being held in Washington DC, where ni...
Aug 11, 2009	Facebook buys FriendFeed to fight Twitter	In purchase of sharing network, Facebook makes its biggest advance in subtle war on Twitter As the Internet exploded yesterday with news of Facebook’s purchase of social-sharing aggregation site FriendFeed, we can safely say that Facebook’s...
Jul 31, 2009	Is Facebook trying too hard to be Twitter?	Latest deletion of regional network usability shows Facebook getting rid of the wrong things Having seen the incredible rise of Twitter as one of the most popular social networking sites on the Web, Facebook has over the past couple months ...
Jul 9, 2009	Facebook wants to be your date book too	Encouraging us to make events for small meetings, Facebook encroaches on Twitter territory yet again “Anyone want to grab a bite in a few minutes?”Short, sweet, and purposeful—this is how Facebook envisions its users utilizing status update...
Jun 1, 2009	The Future Of Twitter Visualized	During his keynote at the TWTRCON conference yesterday in San Francisco, Steve Rubel showed off a mind map he made entitled “The Future of Twitter.” The map, which I’ve embedded below with his permission, is an interesting way to look at th...
	Кто он такой — обычный пользователь Facebook? (инфографика)	Кто он такой — обычный пользователь Facebook? (инфографика) 18 Ноября, 2011, 15:06 Александр Мельник 1040 4 Агентство JESS3 представило забавную инфографику о том, кто такой обычный пользователь соцсети Facebook, и как проходит его обычный ...

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FAQ about JESS3

When was JESS3 founded?

JESS3 was founded in 1982.

What has the press written about JESS3?

Parsers VC has collected 30 articles mentioning JESS3, among them “Don’t Have Time to Read? Gui.de Turns Your News into Video” (Feb 5, 2013) and “Keen On… Caleb Melby: The Zen of Steve Jobs (TCTV)” (Jan 26, 2012).

Is JESS3 still active?

Yes, JESS3 is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 29, 2014.