Spotlight is a series of occasional think pieces harnessing the power of the Firefly Millward Brown global network. One of the strengths of Firefly is the ability to quickly call on the expertise...
This work was created in 2013 as an information design masters thesis at the Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. The question was, can design map conflicts, war and...
Detailed accounts of the daily lives of Israeli settlers in the West Bank are relatively limited, obscuring their very different lived reality compared to Palestinians residing in close geographic...
Infographic for brockhaus, a large encyclopedia publisher from germany. The upper part of the graphic visualizes the worlds highest mountains and their first ascent on a timeline. The bottom part...
Visualizing the loneliest islands in the world by ranking their loneliness through a scoring system of four factors: number of inhabitants, overall land area, proximity to other land and that...
This work visualises nearly 95 million casualties of war from the 20th century. Data made available by The Polynational War Memorial make clear that war was a near-constant characteristic –...
Gangnam Style and Harlem Shake are two of the most recent viral phenomena on the Internet, generating thousands of spin-off versions and billions of views. Pulsar TRAC's Content Tracking technology...
The theory of evolution explains how the enormous variety of life could come into existence. How it is possible for primitive life forms to spawn the millions of different creatures, that exist...
We couldn't resist this one. We admit it. We love MINI. Most normal car brands don't have much personality, but MINI is not normal. It's feisty, it's fun, it's joyful and it's not afraid to be...
This graphic is a visualization of the history of US state boundaries. It gives an overview of current and past state boundaries throughout the country's entire history, combining time and space in...
A large-format educational poster, this timescape traces the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.
It is a presentation of major design movements emerging out of western Modernism...
I thought it would be cool to tell the story of Great Britain's Paralympic history through data. Using statistics that I sourced from the official Paralympic website I charted GB's Paralympic...
A portrayal of recurring sounds in the “Sirens” chapter of Ulysses. The implied musicality of this chapter, coupled with the mechanistic-if-it-were-not-intentional recurrence of certain words,...
Thousands of meteorites have collided with the Earth since 2500 BC. 45,716 have been recorded. Only 1,107 have been seen falling.
BOLIDES is an attempt to visualize and explore the meteorites that...
The wolf in our living rooms. How much wolf is left in man's best friend?
This poster visualises the genetic relationships and diversification of dogs since their domestication from wolves.
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As part of an ongoing project to tell fictional stories through Data Visualisation, I thought I'd see if I could tell the story of the Hobbit through charts and infographics with the war between...
While horses have come close in recent years, none have come close to replicating the winning form of Affirmed or Secretariat, perhaps the most famous horse of all time. Activ8Social takes a closer...
Visual agency Column Five has taken the Forbes's list of the 50 most valuable sports teams in the world and done with it what they do best, visualize it. The interactive piece lays teams out on...
The Brandwatch Eurovision tracker displayed Twitter buzz about the Eurovision Song Contest during the live final on Sat 18th May 2013. It categorised conversation based on the topic of chat,...
The Global Peace Index interactive map visualises the Global Peace Index (GPI), a composite index that measures peace in 162 countries according to 22 indicators. The objective is to engage a...
This series of maps examines regional dialect variation in the continental United States. For each of the 122 questions in the Harvard Dialect Survey, the composite map shows which dialect variant...
We worked with the Iran Media Program to map a complex constellation of leaders and governing bodies involved in Internet censorship in Iran. It visualizes the relationships between different...
Released in April this year, How far is it to Mars? is an Interactive infographic based around one beautifully simple concept: Showing the distance between the Earth and Mars as a long scrolling...