Rewarding excellence in narrative visualisation and information design.

Spotlights

See how the press would cover you if you went missing. Calculate your coverage, and join the fight for equality.

Tom Vaillant

AreYouPressworthy.com

An experiment to trace the emotional waves of a pandemic. A story using data. Told through tweets. Assembled by AI. Explore, and discover the story that matters to you.

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Seven Days is an ongoing project where I gather volunteers’ unique stories as data-sets and explore new ways of visualizing them through drawing. I work with participants to examine how art might overcome the limitations of language to adequately tell our stories. I aim to build intimacy in times of both physical and psychological isolation by fleshing out the personal nature of information.

Gabrielle Merite

Seven Days

The Haircut

An Explorable Explainer of K-Means Clustering

K-Means Clustering: An Explorable Explainer

Degrees of Uncertainty is an animated data-driven documentary about climate science, uncertainty, and knowing when to trust the experts. Support Neil's upcom...

How Sure Are Climate Scientists, Really?

Pourquoi y a-t-il sans cesse de nouveaux variants? Et pourquoi on risque de nouvelles flambées épidémiques? Plongez au cœur du SARS-CoV-2 et découvrez le rôle étonnant de la protéine spike.

Comprendre les futures mutations du Covid-19

We explain how your money gets from you to a streaming platform, and finally to an artist.

How Artists Get Paid From Streaming

Coronavirus Data from the UK made into music - using data sonification, it's easier to understand the rate and amount of cases and how they changed over 2020.

Covid-19 in the UK – sonified

‘The Boat’, an interactive graphic novel about escape after the Vietnam War. Based on the story by Nam Le, adapted by Matt Huynh.

The Boat | SBS

Official website of Maria Callas: soprano, opera legend, ‘La Divina’. Diva of La Scala, celebrated as La traviata, Tosca, Norma, Lucia di Lammermoor, Medea.

Maria Callas - Official Website

Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the world.

River Runner Global

Witness accounts and call transcripts show crowd crush was hours in the making, leaving police facing questions over response.

Pei Ying Loh

How Halloween revelry turned to disaster in South Korea

Love this piece by the Kontinentalist's team and parters, it unpacks so many disciplines to tell an engaging story.

Uncovering Myanmar’s Rare Earth

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has targeted locations and objects of cultural importance. Explore the defense of the nation’s culture and history through maps, photographs, and audio interviews.

Adina Renner

Inside the Grassroots Effort to Save Ukraine’s Culture

Climate Change and the Future Of the Wine Industry

 Ripe for Disruption

Scientists increasingly agree on how much warming the planet will experience. This is what it might look like.  

The New World: Envisioning Life After Climate Change

In Rampvlucht, een digitale reconstructie speur je in een 3D-ervaring mee naar de verzwegen geheimen rondom een van de meest controversiële vliegrampen van de twintigste eeuw.

Rampvlucht

Kaputte Satelliten und Raketen, Trümmer aus Kollisionen und Angriffen: Eine Wolke aus Schrott kreist um die Erde. Eine Gefahr für die Raumfahrt – und unsere Zivilisation

Unser Müll im All

Das Falter Inferno. Wer wagt einen Blick in den Spiegel, die Hölle unserer Zeit?

Falter's Inferno

Climate change is the problem of our time, it’s everyone’s problem, and most of our problem-solvers are assuming that someone else will solve it.

What can a technologist do about climate change?

How to be perfectly unhappy

Exploring the relationship between climate change and violent conflicts.

Climate & Conflict

Discriminator is an interactive documentary exploring facial recognition databases. In 2006, director Brett Gaylor uploaded a photo of himself on his honeymoon to...

Discriminator — Imposter Media

Am Kongress der Kommunistischen Partei werden die Weichen für Chinas Zukunft gestellt – eine visuelle Erklärung

China: So funktioniert der 20. Parteitag der KP

The dominant causes of death for children around the world, in a static dataviz design.

Causes of Death for Children 5 - 14y

Smaller than a prison cell, more than 200,000 people live in extremely cramped conditions such as subdivided flats, cage homes and bed spaces while spending years waiting for public rental housing.

Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing, visually explained

Scientists plunged through category 4 Hurricane Ian in specialised aircraft on Sept. 28, collecting data on the storm’s inner workings

How hurricane hunters fly into the eye of a storm

Fireflies

The European Space Agency has just released version three of the Gaia mission’s data about the location of stars in the sky. With many different parameters defined for about 1.8 billion stars, this is the largest dataset with x and y positions for points I know of. And so it’s a great opportunity to show off some of the features of the deepscatter library I’ve written for exploring large collections.

Billion-point scatterplots

First comes the warning call – then the race to evacuate. Residents of a Gaza apartment block recall the frantic minutes before their homes to were turned to rubble

Countdown to the airstrike

Investigation finds officials ignored warnings for years before one of the deadliest crashes in decades.

The Inside Story of an American Warship Doomed by Its Own Navy

Visualising the world’s addiction to plastic bottles. Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute.

Drowning in Plastic

Interactive article explaining how GPS works.

GPS – Bartosz Ciechanowski

How the average person plays The Game of Life with loaded dice

A Promise Broken | Social Mobility in the Digital Age | L'Atelier

A visual exploration of today's international travel restrictions.

Travel Restrictions Today

Under corporate pressure, traditional farming practices in Asia are slowly being erased by new laws, but our region’s farmers are standing firm to protect local crop seeds. What exactly is happening in this fight for food, and how can we, as consumers, contribute?

The Fight for Food

Government-imposed internet shutdowns are on the rise globally, with devastating impacts on affected communities. Fighting back requires shining a light where governments impose the dark.

Internet Shutdowns | Jigsaw

The world’s biggest beef producer says it has no tolerance for rainforest deforestation. Bloomberg’s analysis shows that’s not true—and Brazilian law isn’t helping.

How Big Beef Is Fueling the Amazon’s Destruction

While the story of Gallipoli has been told many times, never has it been told in such a rich and deeply immersive way. For the first time, the tragedy of Gallipoli is brought to life in a profoundly human way as two mothers imagine what it must have been like for other mothers, 100 years ago. 

Sons of Gallipoli 

A systemic approach to interactive visualization.

Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction

Scientists count carbon stored at the Amazon rainforest.

Amazon Jungle Lab

Documents which are classified under France’s “defence secrecy” regulations demonstrate that French weapons can be used to kill civilians in Yemen. - Made in France

Yemen Papers - Made in France

A visual scrollytelling of the Longines Spirit watch history.

Longines Spirit Zulu Time

Thousands of videos posted look like unfiltered glimpses of life for Uyghurs, but taken together, the videos begin to reveal clues of a broader influence campaign orchestrated by the Chinese government.

‘We Are Very Free’: How China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life in Xinjiang (Published 2021)

Follow along with the NASA spacecraft and its 13 years of amazing discoveries in our immersive 3-D experience.

Here’s What Cassini Saw During Its Tour of Saturn

A game that gives you increasingly absurd trolley problems. Help humanity solve philosophy by solving all the trolley problems.

Absurd Trolley Problems

This chapter discusses further concepts that lie at the core of probability theory.

Compound Probability

Lee, 18, is making her Olympic debut after a challenging year. Her versatility debut after a challenging yea.