Inspiration
A repository of data-driven visual stories from around the world, humanising complex issues with design and technology.
Illustration
How to be perfectly unhappy
An illustrated comic on happiness.
Maps
Dataviz
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...
Interactive
Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
A systemic approach to interactive visualization.
Maps
3D
Travel Restrictions Today
A visual exploration of today's international travel restrictions.
Maps
The Fight for Food
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 ex...
Inspiration of the Week
Cinematic
Internet Shutdowns | Jigsaw
Government-imposed internet shutdowns are on the rise globally, with devastating impacts on affected communities. Fighting back requires shining a light where governments impose th...
Inspiration of the Month
Cinematic
3D
A Promise Broken | Social Mobility in the Digital Age | L'Atelier
How the average person plays The Game of Life with loaded dice.
Interactive
GPS – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining how GPS works.
3D
Drowning in Plastic
Visualising the world’s addiction to plastic bottles. Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute.
Cinematic
The Inside Story of an American Warship Doomed by Its Own Navy
Investigation finds officials ignored warnings for years before one of the deadliest crashes in decades.
Cinematic
Amazon Jungle Lab
Scientists count carbon stored at the Amazon rainforest.
Inspiration of the Week
Maps
Yemen Papers - Made in France
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.
Cinematic
‘We Are Very Free’: How China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life in Xinjiang (Published 2021)
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 t...
Cinematic
Countdown to the airstrike
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.
3D
Here’s What Cassini Saw During Its Tour of Saturn
Follow along with the NASA spacecraft and its 13 years of amazing discoveries in our immersive 3-D experience.