Supercluster was built to tell the human side of our greatest outer space stories. With films, podcasts, events, and applications, they're exploring amazing milestones from our past and the wildest ideas that will drive our future.
A partnership between A24 and GrandArmy, sponsored by Dropbox, Supercluster's mission is simple: inspire wonder, curiosity, and adventure—and create new space fans every day.
Supercluster
2020
Supercluster's foremost public offering are its stories, written by a stable of staff and freelance journalists, and executed as written pieces, podcasts, animations, and films. Supercluster's stories refocus the lens of space journalism on curious, humanist narratives that identify the value of space exploration to al.. Each article is brought to life with award-winning illustrations from GrandArmy studio and friends.
Supercluster's launch tracker logs every rocket launch around the globe, happening in real time. Upcoming launches expand into simple editorial breakdowns that use Supercluster's design philosophy of compressing information to a single sentence to identify what rocket is launching, from where it will launch, what it will carry, and where it will land. The tracker's design incorporates an omnipresent yellow ticker accessible from anywhere on the Supercluster site. The ticker mechanic echoes across the brand's other widgets.
The Supercluster IADB is the most complete database of every living thing that's ever been to space, anywhere. Inspired by collectable baseball cards, the database functions through sets of astronaut cards that can be filtered, grouped, and explored more deeply. A robust set of filtration tools lets users explore by nation, spacecraft, and even species. The IADB shares design DNA with the Launch Tracker, allowing the two widgets to communicate and deepen each others' stories.
The Supercluster Station Tracker follows the International Space Station and the Chinese Tiangong Stations in real time, monitoring which astronauts and spacecraft are currently docked, and the position of the stations above Earth. Astronauts currently at work in orbit link out to their logs in the IADB, creating a circular use of Supercluster's suite of widgets.
Supercluster's merch shop weds scientific insight with offbeat artistic expression, turning complex ideas like Russia's mothballed Buran rockets or the best vantage point to watch a SpaceX launch into collectable pop-part objects. The shop functions as a studio creative outlet—an excuse to experiment, try new styles, and create new products.