In 2012 there were approximately 810 million people over 60 years old in the world. This number is projected to grow to more than 2 billion by 2050, at which point the elderly will outnumber...
How wide is the reach of the United States military? It's a difficult question to answer. In addition to active military operations, such as Afghanistan, the U.S. DoD owns, leases, or has a legal...
This visualisation was inspired by an article we read in The New Yorker, in which Malcolm Gladwell tries to unravel rules underpinning age, creativity and genius (The New Yorker, October 20, 2008,...
Since the Roberts Court came into session, trends have suggested a general rightward shift among most of the justices (despite the health care ruling). The reasons are manifold: from Roberts'...
This double sided poster was designed to be a handout for people at Detroit's Eastern Market. Side 1 explores the market itself and what it has to offer—side 2 provides 5 recipes one can make...
In 2010 New York City added 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but that number means little to most people because few of us have a sense of scale for atmospheric...
–The Better Life Snowflake' uses the data from OECD Better Life Index. This website shows data by either country of category. I wanted to simplify that data even more by using one image. To do this...
In two centuries, the world has been dramatically transformed by a series of interconnected moments-the breakthroughs, creations, discoveries, innovations, revolutions and momentous human...
The streamgraph shown on this page represents the evolution of Kantian lexicon throughout his philosophical publications. A hundred of the most important words, of the Kant's philosophical...
Information graphic design to promote reduction of food waste and carbon footprint. Based on simple yet shocking facts, creating graphical symbols to represent the information being translated:
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On the centenary of the start of the Tour de France cycling race this year, we thought about how we could show how the nationalities of the winners changed over time. We chose to adopt a "pinwheel"...
This interactive map teaches you the history of street and landmark names in San Francisco. I started the project because these names turn out to be a wonderful window into different layers of...
Persua created this infographic for the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI).
It is a visualisation of the water profile in the pulp and paper industry of CEPI member countries.
To...
Grevilleas are members of the Protea plant family and are widespread across Australia. Colour palettes of Grevillea flowers were extracted from photographs, and linked to occurrence records sourced...
This infographic compares each of the different James Bonds to see which actor is the most popular. Each Bond is laid out on a (literal) target to enable comparison across categories ranging from...
Project for display real time and interactive infographics, on touchscreeens positioned in various places of the city, of the data relating to air quality emitted from the chimneys of Terni...
Everything Oscar Wilde said or wrote was designed to be quoted. But how far has he succeeded? We used search engines, books of quotations and newspaper archives to work out which of Wilde's...
London is known as a multicultural hub, a 'melting pot' where millions of people live their day to day lives forming part of a vibrant mix of ethnic diversity. But what is the scale of this...
A day before I was given a brief to present information on a personal habit over a period of a week I started a very bland and uninteresting low carbohydrate diet because I have previously been...
Tech geeks, film fanatics, and music lovers UNITE! It's that time of year again when we all descend en masse to Austin, TX for ten days of panels, screenings, and parties. That's right. We're...
This interactive visualization shows comparative data about national budget from 2008 to 2013. Each color represents the different politics of cost. Blue color, for public services costs; yellow...
This interactive visualization uses publicly available data on smartphone user behavior. The visualization allows you to observe smartphone penetration throughout the globe, pick a gender, then...
For the launch of 4G services in eleven UK cities, Brendan created a digital portrait for each city, formed from millions of bits of data as people talked and interacted about the biggest events of...