Inspiration
A repository of data-driven visual stories from around the world, humanising complex issues with design and technology.
Inspiration of the Week
Audio
Covid-19 in the UK – sonified
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.
Illustration
The Boat | SBS
‘The Boat’, an interactive graphic novel about escape after the Vietnam War. Based on the story by Nam Le, adapted by Matt Huynh.
Cinematic
Documentary
Maria Callas - Official Website
Official website of Maria Callas: soprano, opera legend, ‘La Divina’. Diva of La Scala, celebrated as La traviata, Tosca, Norma, Lucia di Lammermoor, Medea.
Maps
Interactive
River Runner Global
Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the world.
3D
Dataviz
Uncovering Myanmar’s Rare Earth
The hidden side of clean energy.
Illustration
How Halloween revelry turned to disaster in South Korea
Witness accounts and call transcripts show crowd crush was hours in the making, leaving police facing questions over response.
3D
Dataviz
Inside the Grassroots Effort to Save Ukraine’s Culture
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...
Dataviz
Ripe for Disruption
Climate Change and the Future Of the Wine Industry.
Cinematic
Illustration
The New World: Envisioning Life After Climate Change
Scientists increasingly agree on how much warming the planet will experience. This is what it might look like.
Cinematic
Illustration
Falter's Inferno
Das Falter Inferno. Wer wagt einen Blick in den Spiegel, die Hölle unserer Zeit?
Documentary
3D
Rampvlucht
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.
Inspiration of the Week
3D
Cinematic
Unser Müll im All
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.
Dataviz
Interactive
What can a technologist do about climate change?
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.
Illustration
How to be perfectly unhappy
An illustrated comic on happiness.
Dataviz
Maps
Climate & Conflict
Exploring the relationship between climate change and violent conflicts.
Documentary
Interactive
Discriminator — Imposter Media
Discriminator is an interactive documentary exploring facial recognition databases. In 2006, director Brett Gaylor uploaded a photo of himself on his honeymoon to...
Dataviz
China: So funktioniert der 20. Parteitag der KP
Am Kongress der Kommunistischen Partei werden die Weichen für Chinas Zukunft gestellt – eine visuelle Erklärung.
Dataviz
Causes of Death for Children 5 - 14y
The dominant causes of death for children around the world, in a static dataviz design.
Cinematic
Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing, visually explained
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 publi...
Illustration
How hurricane hunters fly into the eye of a storm
Scientists plunged through category 4 Hurricane Ian in specialised aircraft on Sept. 28, collecting data on the storm’s inner workings.
Interactive
Fireflies
A small simulation of small fireflies.
Dataviz
Billion-point scatterplots
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 bi...
Maps
How Big Beef Is Fueling the Amazon’s Destruction
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.
Documentary
Sons of Gallipoli
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 li...