The best ideas live between what is likely and what is possible.


Big Dreams helps make complex technologies, organizations, and ideas understandable, tangible, and real enough for others to join.

Turning Uncertainty Into Action

POSSIBLITY OCEAN ➝

Envisioning Information Services

AMAZON UX LAB ➝

Fostering Cultural Exchange

EXPO 2020 DUBAI ➝

Imagining Ocean Futures

OCEAN FUTURES TOOLKIT ➝

Innovating Sustainable Industries

HEXAGON ➝

Personalizing Flight Experience

COLLINS AEROSPACE ➝

Optimizing Energy Intelligence

UTILIDATA

Communicating Ocean Power

PANTHALASSA

Commercializing Fusion Energy

XCIMER ENERGY

APPROACH

Ideas become powerful when people can see themselves inside them.

Make Ideas Legible

Visual, verbal, and time-based explanations that help people understand complex technologies, organizations, and opportunities.

Build Shared Understanding

Experiences, workshops, and artifacts that help diverse groups align around a common vision.

Turn Possibility Into Participation

Create pathways for people to engage, contribute, invest, collaborate, and act.

Create Momentum

Design communications, systems, and experiences that help ideas gain traction and endure.

CLIENTS

We work with visionaries, underdogs, and trailblazers to create experiences, narratives, and systems that scale—advancing initiatives that matter for people and the planet. 

Our studio moves fast and flexibly, collaborating with founders, leaders, and internal teams across sectors and scales.

Media & Entertainment: BBC, Google, Discovery Channel, Disney, Twitter, YouTube  Agencies: 2x4, ARUP, B-Reel, Buro Happold, Gensler, McCann, OMD, Snohetta, The Secret Little Agency, Widen & Kennedy, Zeus Jones Corporations: ACT, Adidas, Amica, Blue Dot, Carrier, Hasbro, Hewlett Packard, Ikea, Lego, Mozilla, Nike, Nokia, Philips, Pratt and Whitney, Rockwell Collins, S7 Airlines, Salesforce, Samsung, Target, The Moonshot Factory, Toyota, Tyco, TomTom, United Technologies Research Center, Vista Equity Partners Cultural Institutions: Biomuseo, California Academy of Science, Cooper Hewitt, Detroit Institute of Art, DeYoung Museum, Nasjonalmussett, Providence Children’s Museum, Science Museum London, Smithsonian, Sydney Opera House, Van Gogh Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Wellcome Collection Educational: Bank Street College of Education, Bates College, Beloit College, Bowdoin College, Brown University, Bryn Mawr College, California College of the Arts, Columbia University, Emory and Henry College, Episcopal Academy, Fordham University, Gonzaga University, Hampshire College, Haskins, Hofstra University, Hotchkiss School, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Knox College, MassArt, Meredith College, Miss Porter School, MIT, Parson School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Roger Williams University, San Francisco Art Institute, Simmons Rock, Springfield College, St. Joseph's College, Stanford University, Trinity College, University of Vermont Government, Public Sector, Non-Profits: Dubai Future Foundation, Expo 2020, Facing History and Ourselves, Hudson River Estuarium, Iowa EdTech Collaborative, Prime Minister’s Office (Dubai), PROMTUR Panamá, RI Foundation, RI Humanities, Rhode Island Commerce, Singapore Economic Development Board, Slater Center, The Steel Yard, URI Research, Watson Foundation, World Economic Forum Healthcare: Boston Children’s Hospital, Humana, Intarcia, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Novartis, Ximedica