Comic-book superheroes battle bad guys. But the two main comic publishers fight commercially in even tougher ways. Alongside the release of 2013's summer superhero movies, The Economist produced a...

Countries with large demographics have obviously more athletes to pick from and thus will collect a larger number of medals. This infographic aims to show which countries were the real winners at...

A visualization of the more than 100 confirmed planets discovered by NASA's Kepler mission.

Working with Uni be we analysed the nationalities of the players in the champions league. Here are our findings.

Each glass of lemonade represents weather information for Toronto in August 2012. It compares the daily temperature to all the days of the month, as well as to what the temperature was on that same...

A self initiated information graphics poster (600x800mm) titled "Country Codes". The idea came about after looking up a telephone (Subscriber Trunk Dialling) code to find out which part of the...

This piece visualizes the details of a survey given to students on the subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), and examines the differences in answers between genders.

With an Electronic Document and Records Management System the Tower Hamlets Community Healthcare Services will save up to 20% of their time spent looking for information stored in paper form.

London-based information design agency Signal Noise has launched a new version of last season's successful Transfer Window website with updated features for the 2013/2014 season. The huge sums of...

The first part of this visualization is the interactive map: With the green arrows, you can choose a governance indicator and see which countries have te highest or lowest indicator.A country which...

A poster of New York City's tallest buildings arranged in order of the time they were completed.

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...

What if we could see a baseball player's offensive stats all at once? These are radar charts, but try to think of them as fingerprints of offensive output.

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...

This information graphic was shown in the annual Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2011. The number of wealthy people at the top of the pyramid equals about one percent of the global population....

Instead of writing yet another paper, I handed in this visualization for the LERU Bright 2013 Student Conference which will be held in August in Freiburg, Germany. This year's conference topic is...

Turnover and financial performance of international agencies operating in Italy. One hundred companies, 3 years of data.

How much time do you waste looking for a document or file at work? Imagine having a deadline approaching and your boss needs that document stat. What do you do? We continued our collaboration with...

Kantar Worldpanel is the world leader in consumer knowledge and insights based on continuous consumer panels. Combining market monitoring, advanced analytics and tailored market research solutions...

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...

This handout was used as a summary after our popular 'Choose Impact' event (where David McCandless was a speaker). The event aimed to raise the profile and importance of visualisation within the...

Color research in movies. We held a survey concerning colors presented in several films by means of calculating the amount of one or another color shade appearing during the whole movie. That's how...

This 7.5 foot wide poster shows the complete statistical history of the New York Yankees baseball team -- every hitter, every pitcher and every season in the more than 100-year history of the team.

R. Crumb was responsible for sparking the underground comix (with an x) revolution of the '60s and '70s that brought satirical and adult-themed titles into the mainstream. He was one of the most...

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...

This interactive tool was created to help people work out how much time they could save if they found quicker ways of doing things in their life. I used Tableau Public in a way that it isn't...

Cartographers are tasked with making the physical world understandable through graphical display. Abstract spatial data is given context and translated through elements such as north arrows, scale...

On the Board is a groundbreaking new initiative of The International Women's Forum (IWF) and The George Washington University School of Business (GWSB) that aims to change these numbers. On the...

Confessions of a Blog-a-holic is an infographic displaying the blogging habits (frequency and times of posts) of a Graphic Design student between 2009 and 2011.

The Big Mac Index was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their "correct" level, based on the idea of purchasing-power parity. Since then,...