This artefact represents the impact that humanity has had in space around Earth. Each piece of tinfoil represents 10 debris pieces generated by man in the Earth’s Low Orbit, for a total of 13...
While living in Seattle, I rode to and from Fremont every day on the Burke Gilman bike trail. Little did I know that everytime I went past NE 70th St, I (along with everyone else) was being...
Unreliable employment, crowded living conditions, vulnerability to health issues, and unsafe housing in rural Nepal worsened following the 2015 earthquakes, destroying more than 800,000 homes. Many...
The Atlas is the result of a semester's work by students of the Communication Design Lab at the Iuav University of Venice in an experimental collaboration with the Department for Digital...
The Governance Lab (The GovLab) aims to improve people's lives by changing how we govern. The research think-tank seeks new ways to solve public problems using advances in technology and science....
Plastic waste, mostly from rivers or careless dumping on land, washes into the oceans at an average rate of about nine million tons a year. The visible trash, along with heartbreaking images of its...
The Fallen of World War II is an interactive documentary that examines the human cost of the second World War and the decline in battle deaths in the years since the war. The 15-minute data...
Drawing on 10,000 videos from the internet, Network Effect explores the psychological impact of Internet use on humanity. The project contains 10,000 video clips, 10,000 spoken sentences, news,...
What does your cat get up to once it leaves the cat flap? BBC Horizon teamed up with the Royal Veterinary College and Lincoln and Bristol universities to investigate the secret life of domestic...
A Rising Tide of Plastic in the Ocean is an Infographic built using Tableau. It tells us a story on how Plastic Production is increasing each year and how this is impacting Marine life. It shows...
How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the economic prospects of people, businesses, and communities across the United States? Traditional economic indicators lack the timeliness and granularity...
Every victim of covid-19 had their own joys and hopes for the future. Leslie Shapiro and I marked one million deaths in America from covid-19 by writing about one person who died each week of the...
This is a timeline consisting of 20 years in American history, all of which had major influence on both the progress and regress of women’s reproductive rights in the United States of America. The...
This map shows monthly average temperatures recorded by approximately 7,280 climate stations around the world since 1900. Our goal was to show the beauty in the diversity of land temperatures,...
Our interactive tool built for the Unesco Institute for Statistics as part of the International Women’s Day and centered on the theme “Equality for women is progress for all” helps visualize the...
The Lancet medical journal commissioned this motion infographic to publicise a new study revealing the outcome of mass vaccination against meningococcal meningitis in Chad. As ever the challenge...
Back in the 1970s, activist Jane Jacobs theorized urban vitality and found that there are four conditions required for the promotion of life in cities: diversity of land use, small block sizes,...
This visualization shows 335 surfing spots on the Italian coastline, flattened, divided by regions and seas that flow through them. Of the 30 best voted spots on magicseaweed.com, we analyzed the...
Platts removes an element of confusion in the oil markets...
S&P Global Platts has created the first ever interactive Periodic Table of Oil. It unravels the complexity of the $1.7 trillion...
Jeff Bezos is now in the 5th spot on world’s wealthiest people list. But he was born poor. He wanted to start a business right after college but didn’t. So how did he start?
This project uses an interactive 3D globe with over 1,000 relatively evenly distributed points over Earth's landmasses to tell the story of climate change. You can animate each point's temperature...
In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite into orbit, Sputnik I. Its batteries kept it running for three weeks. However, the longest active satellite was put into...
In the 2014/15 concert season programme, the »Symphonieorchestra des Bayerischen Rundfunks« offers a peek behind the curtain. Here is a selection of the 21 infographics. Formula One in the concert...
How can we give data physical form? And how might those creations change the ways we experience data and the stories it can tell?
Making with Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data-Driven...
Alt’ai is an agent-based simulation inspired by aesthetics, culture and environmental conditions of the Altai region on borders between Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia. It is set into a...
A revealing bubble chart... the top 20 similes used in the Bible's poetry book ‘Song of Songs’.
Data was created, analysed and wire-framed before the design. It needed to be traditional and a...
This project has two goals. One is to show the remarkable relationship between the historical geography of American slavery and the present-day patterns of mass incarceration. But second, the maps...