360 is an exploration into whether it is possible to draw a perfect circle freehand. This idea was sparked after reading an article about a 15th Century artist named Giotto, who was able to do...

What was the likelihood that Obama would be re-elected? Instead of talking to the pundits, The Economist listened to the data. Specifically, we looked at the president's economic performance in the...

We worked with the Iran Media Program to map a complex constellation of leaders and governing bodies involved in Internet censorship in Iran. It visualizes the relationships between different...

Hill Mapper is an interactive online map of hilly streets in San Francisco. My goal was to show both the steepness of hills and the direction of their incline, using a design that would be more...

It appears that we are witnessing a global health crisis. According to the World Health Organization, malnutrition is the greatest single threat to human health in developing nations. Yet this...

8 Phases of The Moon is an educational infographic poster explaining what causes the different phases of the moon during the Lunar month. In addition, the graphics illustrate the difference ...

Gangnam Style and Harlem Shake are two of the most recent viral phenomena on the Internet, generating thousands of spin-off versions and billions of views. Pulsar TRAC's Content Tracking technology...

Infographics made on the basis of a study conducted by Siemens. A coefficient of urban ecology is composed from a combination of eight parameters.

This visualisation was inspired by an article we read in The New Yorker, in which Malcolm Gladwell tries to unravel rules underpinning age, creativity and genius (The New Yorker, October 20, 2008,...

Businesses can take one of four paths to growth: They can acquire new customers, increase loyalty and new spend, innovate new products and services or enter new markets. One of the oldest ways to...

Stadtbilder is an attempt to map the digital shape of cities. While traditional maps show us buildings, roads and physical infrastructure, these maps reveal where and in which form the city is...

The idea of 'home' to me is an intriguing one - many people associate it with a constant physical location, but in my case, my location was constantly changing.This infographic is aimed to chart my...

Upon learning about the upcoming launch of London Live, a new local TV station in London, Kantar Media wanted to investigate how this news had resonated with Londoners. Our infographic helps us to...

We analyse the characters played by every winner of an –actor/actress in a leading role' Oscar since 1928 to work out the parts which most reliably lead to glory. Historic South American criminals,...

This infographic shows six classic films that flopped in the box office but succeeded in the long run.

50 YEARS OF THE GERMAN SOCCER LEAGUE: The graphic shows all end-of-season placings from 1963 to 2013. By the way it's a homage to the well know record cover "Unknown Pleasures" from Joy Division.

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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....

A digital poster featuring an original diagram by Julie Mader-Meersman that communicates the breadth and depth of multi-disciplinary graphic design to those beginning and outside its practice. It...

Spotlight is a series of occasional think pieces harnessing the power of the Firefly Millward Brown global network. One of the strengths of Firefly is the ability to quickly call on the expertise...

“God created time, the devil created calendars,” as the Austrian-American chemist Erwin Chargaff once wrote. But here of course that's not entirely true, since the ixtract calendar you find beneath...

The Economist's defense correspondent in 2013 revealed to the world how close Iran was to building a nuclear bomb. But it took a 3-page article to explain. So our graphics editor intricately...

Germany–s energy market faces a revolutionary turn towards renewable energy. Siemens is one of the leading companies pushing this shift forward with several product novelties and concepts. This...

An outbreak of green algae, or hutai in Chinese, has invaded the seawaters off eastern Shandong. It looks harmless and lots of fun, as beachgoers are pictured frolicking in the green mass. But...

"Portland, Oregon: The Age of a City" shows the age of over 600k buildings in the city of Portland.

The complete story of the FiFa World Cup, beginning with the first edition of 1930 in Uruguay until the last of 2010 in South Africa. The analyzed data are used to display the goals scored, the...

Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft was on target to become the first man-made object to leave the solar system. We wanted to take users on Voyager's journey past the planets. But we also wanted to give...

A taxonomy of comic book characters with animals in their name.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease spread by coughing and sneezing that usually attacks the lungs. It was one of the world's leading causes of death before antibiotics were introduced in the...

Recently the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (cms.gov) released a report detailing Medicare Provider Charge Data which shows the cost of procedures or DRGs at various hospitals across...