FoST Original Content

Our boundary-pushing work in the storytelling space has inspired us to create our own thought leadership programming. FoST Originals draws on the collective knowledge of our multidisciplinary network of world-class experts that are shaping the future. Our films, podcasts, summits, and other original content have been recognized as best-in-class by The New York Times, Apple, Forbes, VICE, Vimeo and others. Below is a sampling to get you started, organized by topic.

Spatial Computing & XR Storytelling

Person demonstrates how to use a virtual reality headset to create a 3d model of himself.
(vimeo STAFF PICK,man, people, indoors, business, technology, one, looking, down to a science, adult, safety, industry, family, light, landscape, woman, security, science, portrait, healthcare, connection)

Glen Keane: Step into the Page

A group of friends are drinking coffee and eating ice cream in a park.
(people, adult, child, two, man, woman, facial expression, group, portrait, girl, music, offspring, recreation, three, interaction, outdoors, wear, boy, togetherness, enjoyment)

John Hanke: Hacking Social Nature for Gaming

A girl in a forest.
(wood, tree, hike, nature, fall, hiking, adventure, landscape, trail, outdoors, people, leaf, mountain, recreation, park, one, daylight, travel, moss, rainforest)

Barnaby Churchill Steel: Making the Invisible Visible

Multisensory and Immersive Storytelling

Person with a painting of a man.
(people, museum, painting, exhibition, one, adult, portrait, two, leader, business, art, man, picture frame, wear, wall, travel, landscape, no person, wood, color)

Charles Spence: Sensploration

A man in a gas mask walks through a dark tunnel.
(VOON,dark, light, people, shadow, portrait, mystery, silhouette, man, horror, mask, scary, sun, danger, eerie, fear, backlit, ghost, Halloween, art, sunset)

Felix Barrett: Audience Immersion in Interactive Theater

A tiger shark with a green eye.
(underwater, swimming, fish, water, invertebrate, no person, wildlife, coral, sea, submarine, aquarium, ocean, marine, reef, nature, diving, tropical, deep, aquatic, animal)

Meow Wolf: Immersive Experiences as a Tool for Transformation

Brand Storytelling & Marketing

Angela Ahrendts: Authentic Branding for a Global Audience

Man with a broken arm in a cast.
(no person, graphic design, man, art, paper, woman, retro, child, fun, summer, sun, artistic, action, travel, sky, illustration, conceptual, water, winter, people)

David Droga: Making Advertising Human

A bird flying in the sky.
(bird, flight, sky, wildlife, seagulls, nature, air, cloud, wing, fly, waterfowl, goose, freedom, animal, outdoors, migration, feather, water, landscape, airplane)

Beth Comstock: Personal Connection in Corporate Storytelling

The Craft of Storytelling

The city of the future.
(no person, city, architecture, outdoors, building, cityscape, travel, urban, sky, business, skyline, skyscraper, landscape, modern, pollution, daylight, water, downtown, environment, road)

Alex McDowell: World Building

Silhouette of a man with laptop.
(sunset, sun, dawn, silhouette, yoga, sky, man, people, beach, nature, girl, meditation, fair weather, dusk, summer, landscape, sea, woman, light, illustration)

Jennifer Aaker: Persuasion and the Power of Story

The art of person, via photo sharing website.
(people, adult, group, wear, man, two, indoors, woman, commerce, room, business, child, portrait, stock, education, recreation, exhibition, several, family, one)

John Maeda: From Storytelling to Storylistening

Neuroscience of Storytelling

The tree of knowledge - photo #.
(art, abstract, vintage, flower, design, desktop, illustration, shape, tree, texture, leaf, decoration, one, retro, winter, floral, nature, pattern, no person, graphic)

Beau Lotto: Understanding Perception: How We Experience the Meaning We Create

Digital art selected for the #.
(illustration, symbol, people, art, no person, desktop, conceptual, man, character, image, sketch, sign, fun, cutout, card, shape, funny, vector, woman, design)

Anil Seth: The Neuroscience of Perception

A network of connections among neurons in the brain.
(abstract, dark, lightning, desktop, flame, insubstantial, texture, pattern, design, science, smoke, space, neural, line, wave, art, chaos, illustration, spider, color)

Justin Sanchez: Neurotechnology and Storytelling

Stories for Change

A group of students stand in a row and look at the camera.
(portrait, model, group, people, girl, woman, man, fashion, festival, adult, movie, wear, actress, theater, concert, indoors, stage, performance, group together, son)

Jose Antonio Vargas: Defining American

Digital art selected for the #.
(GOOD IS THE NEW COOL,street, city, monochrome, no person, business, transportation system, travel, outdoors, architecture, people, vertical, horizontal plane, road, urban, text, Broadway, building, modern, office, signalise)

Bobby Jones: Connecting to the Work You Do

Alexis McGill Johnson – Examining the Hidden Self: How Implicit Bias Manifests