Borderline

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Published: 2018 | The Washington Post

Border cities are often treated as separate worlds. We wanted to flip that view and show how arbitrary the line can be: communities that look and feel connected, sliced apart by a border.

I loved this project because it let us lean into cinematic techniques, almost like designing a video game, to capture that sense of connection across the line. We had to wrangle messy cross-border data and build a smooth and lightweight experience that worked natively on phones, which felt like a small miracle at the time.

This one sticks with me because it proved we could take a familiar, politically charged story and tell it in a way that was visual, novel, and deeply human.