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Mashable Brand X — Bike Sharing

THE CHALLENGE
THE APPROACH
THE OUTCOME

FROM THE BOARD

IBM · 2020

STORYBOARDS

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Scene 1 · Self-driving car enters from the left, woman inside relaxing with a book — animated speed lines, wheels, and "self-driving" signal icons show the world of autonomous transport

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Scene 1 · A drone descends from above in the same animated style — establishing the futuristic tech world before the pivot

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Scene 1 · The car passes through a retro TV prop on screen — inside the TV an old-fashioned bicycle appears, signalling the unexpected comeback

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Scene 1 · The TV screen updates to a sleek modern bike — the visual bridge from yesterday to today

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Scene 2 · Hands hold an iPhone and photograph the bike; the shot transforms into a social media post — NYC location tag, smiling rider, #bikingisawesome

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Scene 3 · Finger swipes through posts from multiple cities — each slides out as a paper cutout, showing how the bike share movement spread nationwide

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Scene 4 · Hands place individual letters into frame spelling out "why the bike share craze?" — playful, tactile title treatment

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Scene 4 · A 3D graph rises as a miniature bike climbs its arc to reach 123 million — visualising the explosive growth in rides taken over the last decade

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Scene 5 · Three words dropped into frame: Economic · Environmental · Safety — the triple value case for bike sharing made visual

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Scene 6 · Top layer: bumper-to-bumper NYC traffic — cars gridlocked, the city barely moving

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Scene 6 · Middle layer: bike lane runs in front of traffic — riders moving freely past the jam

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Scene 6 · Lower level: packed subway car in motion — three city transport layers shown simultaneously

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Scene 7 · Subway doors slide open — passengers are packed like sardines, illustrating why 75,000 New Yorkers a day choose to cycle instead

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Scene 8 · The moving bike dissolves into an illustration on a book cover: "Bike Share Studies" — transitioning from street to data

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Scene 8 · Book opens: left side shows an animated 3D map of NYC bike stations; right side displays data bars — Chapter 1: Convenience. Avg trip: 10.7 min · 17.6M trips in NYC 2018

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Scene 9 · Map fills with stations across Manhattan and Brooklyn; right side pie chart — 59% convenience, 11% exercise, 11% saves money, 9% fun/recreation

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Scene 10 · Map divides into square miles, 28 stations highlighted per zone — data overlay shows optimal station density for maximum accessibility

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Scene 11 · Bike rides out of the closed book onto an open road; new bike lanes appear in both directions with riders; 52% pedestrian injury reduction stat overlaid

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Scene 12 · Rider continues forward as trees grow along the lane — environment recovers. Infographic: 700 metric tons of CO2 reduced in NYC in 2016

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Scene 13 · Top-view of hands grabbing a helmet → camera pivots to frontal — millennial puts on the helmet, a full bike appears, she rolls forward and exits frame. CTA.