It was no easy task, to hand-pick the best among so many great entries, but the shortlist for the 2015 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards is finally live. Public voting starts Wed Nov 18. Yes, along with our judges, you get to decide who wins.   Check out the list...

While you take a break from perusing the longlist, read on and meet some more of our outstanding judges! Stefanie is one unique data artist and designer. Her work focuses on unusual subjects and her technique of doing much of the work by hand with pen and paper results ...

Super-pleased and honoured to unveil the longlist for the 2015 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards. It’s been another vintage year in the world of data visualization and information design - if these 425+ entries are anything to go by. An incredible range of creativit...

  Jen is senior graphics editor at Scientific American and was previously at National Geographic. Jen is an expert in understanding, interpreting, and communicating scientific content visually. @ChristiansenJen | JenChristiansen.com   Andy is a data visuali...

While your entries and nominations flood in, we have been assembling a hit squad of dataviz gurus. Over 30 judges will pick the winners. Meet them: Giorgia Lupi is an information designer who creates visuals that close the gap between data & daily life. She and her ...

Women Gold Medalists is a project by designer and philosopher Wendy Fox. Celebrating diversity of female athletes’ body types, it's an interactive visualization paired with simple but sophisticated illustrations of every female gold medalist during the London 2012 Olympic Game...

Beautiful infographics accompanied the print programme for the 2014-2015 season of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Created by the Berlin-based agency Golden Section Graphics, they offer a glimpse into the musicians’ lives, their musical tastes and their family history. ...

Rifling through the ever-growing nominee list, we noticed some great examples of attempts to explain the Syrian war and the ensuing refugee crisis in different award categories. Syria's War: a 5 minute history – Vox: a concise motion infographic is good place to start for u...

Closing date for nominations is in two weeks and competition will be fierce, but worry not: there are many chances of winning, 18 to be exact. Besides six special awards, work will be judged between free and paid entries in 12 unique categories as follows: Free entries A...

Emotions are very much like the universe: they change, expand, sway, travel and relate to each other. In the Universe of Emotions project, Ana Gea and Victor Palau use outer space metaphors to create a visualisation of 307 human emotions and their relationships. Stunningly be...

The data journalism team on Slovenian newspaper Dnevnik, lead by Aljaž Vindiš choose a different topic each week and the small collective of authors produce the features in their entirety: they research, synthesise, write, illustrate, visualise data, lay out the page and send ...

This year's global awards celebrating awesomeness in data-visualisation and infographics is now officially open! To celebrate our fourth year, we've remixed the format a little and added a few new categories. Check out all the details. Closing date for entries: Octobe...

A mammoth hyper-kenetic visualisation teeming with data about trade flows between nations. Slice and data by sector (food, minerals, plastic). Change the view to map view, country stacks, or the mind-boggling 'project space' network diagram. Or just spin the 3D globe around ov...