Lab for Engineering and Design in Editorial
Lede Lab is The Post’s experimental news team dedicated to exploring emerging technologies, new storytelling techniques and creative partnerships that help The Post serve its growing global audience. Learn more about our recent work and get in touch below.
Featured Work
A 3D breakdown of Halo’s iconic armor
Halo loremasters provide a 360-degree tour of Master Chief's suit.
A 3D breakdown of Halo’s iconic armor
Halo loremasters provide a 360-degree tour of Master Chief's suit.
Millions of Americans can trace their ancestry back to tenements like this one.
A virtual photogrammetry tour of the Tenement Museum in New York and how the lives of immigrants were affected by disease, public health, and housing laws.
Millions of Americans can trace their ancestry back to tenements like this one.
A virtual photogrammetry tour of the Tenement Museum in New York and how the lives of immigrants were affected by disease, public health, and housing laws.
‘The Visitors’
Ragnar Kjartansson worried that his video installation might be sentimental rubbish. It’s one of the most celebrated artworks of our time.
‘The Visitors’
Ragnar Kjartansson worried that his video installation might be sentimental rubbish. It’s one of the most celebrated artworks of our time.
Fighting fire with fire
Prescribed burns were perfected by Indigenous people. They help regrow healthy forests and protect communities and firefighters. But there are many obstacles to making extensive use of the practice.
Fighting fire with fire
Prescribed burns were perfected by Indigenous people. They help regrow healthy forests and protect communities and firefighters. But there are many obstacles to making extensive use of the practice.
Scale a 50-foot speed climbing wall in augmented reality with Olympian Brooke Raboutou
Lifelong climber Brooke Raboutou carries her family’s competitive legacy as her sport debuts at the 2021 Summer Games
Scale a 50-foot speed climbing wall in augmented reality with Olympian Brooke Raboutou
Lifelong climber Brooke Raboutou carries her family’s competitive legacy as her sport debuts at the 2021 Summer Games
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More Projects
Recalling a pandemic year with poetry and machine learning art
Recalling a pandemic year with poetry and machine learning art: For National poetry month, five poets reflect on the seasons of the pandemic along with machine learning art.
After showing its worth during pandemic, momentum builds for free or reduced-fare transit
After showing its worth during pandemic, momentum builds for free or reduced-fare transit
Reconstructing seven days of protests in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s death
Hundreds of hours of social media live streams present a different and more complicated view of what was happening in Minneapolis.
Explore inauguration front pages from The Washington Post archive in 3-D
Explore inauguration front pages from The Washington Post archive in 3-D.
Heliograf 3.0: AI-powered local audio election updates
Lede Lab created Claire, a customized AI presenter, to voice hundreds of ongoing House, Senate and presidential election result updates, personalized to each podcast listener's state, as results were counted, disputed and challenged across the country in the 2020 presidential election.
Drawing the results: robot-printing the live 2020 electoral map
The Election 2020 Storytelling Lab live-illustrated electoral results as they came in across the country with drawing robots.
Sonoma’s vaunted wineries embrace online sales, budget pricing to woo pandemic drinkers
For years, the industry relied on foot traffic from millions of tourists to keep their doors open. The coronavirus has forced them to find a new way.
How to dress for space
Explore five iconic spacesuits in 3-D and more than 50 years of spaceflight in a dialogue between The Washington Post’s space industry reporter Christian Davenport and fashion critic Robin Givhan.
12 seconds of gunfire: The true story of a school shooting
A powerful virtual reality experience produced by The Washington Post, based on an unforgettable front-page article by 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist John Woodrow Cox.
Practice makes perfect: Carve this virtual turkey
Learn how to carve this year’s Thanksgiving bird with this step-by-step guide using augmented reality.
The Smithsonian saved a statue Lincoln praised. Now you can judge it for yourself.
Using a technique called photogrammetry, The Washington Post created a digital reconstruction of a famous Civil War-era artwork.
A new concert hall in Hamburg transforms the city
Bring one of its most alluring features, 10,000 unique acoustic panels, into your room with this augmented reality story.