The infographics are really nice, but what's with the looming globe? This has to be the most invasive and annoying piece of useless UX I've ever seen... (note that two links in the fixed menu on the left send you to the same target you'd reach by clicking the globe!).<p>Other than that, this is really cool...
Their Youtube channel [0] is excellent, they really grab the attention of someone young about a large variety of topics, and they really make you want to keep watching their videos.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt</a>
Edit: I was looking at the pictures rather than watching the video. The audio explanation does give a fair treatment of the subject matter.<p>---<p>It's a nice idea, but the pictures about ISIS are a bit disturbing. I think it might be a good idea to stick with science and topics that aren't controversial, because otherwise it seems a bit like propaganda. Maybe I'm not used to viewing such media, but it feels like if you gave me a piece of text, I could read it and decide for myself whether or not it makes valid arguments.<p>However if you give me a piece of art, you are basically telling me a story whose validity I have no way of discerning (within the framework i.e. without having to do extra research). Having (what I presume to be) the ISIS emblem and a bunch of skulls around it seems like it's telling me "these guys bad", "those guys good", which is a bit authoritative for my taste and feels like it's from a dystopian classroom where we are told what to think. Everything is black or white. You're either with us or against us. There is no room in such a worldview for nuance. Perhaps this is a consequence of the medium, in which case established science (as opposed to politics) would be the topic of choice.
The most astonishing part for me, is that those videos are made using Adobe After Effects, the amount of effort and patience it takes to work with a clusterfuck of shape layers and compositions is simply amazing! Kudos!
What I originally came across was the Ebola video [1], but now I see they have more things in their excellent YouTube channel, as others pointed out.<p>I was mostly interested in was the presentation style, more than the somewhat odd collection of topics (or their bias or lack of it).<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRv19gkZ4E0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRv19gkZ4E0</a>