The Shortlist: Arts, Entertainment & Culture
Our Shortlisted creators are experts at merging design and data, so it's not surprising that many of them draw inspiration from the worlds of art, music and film. Read on to see the works of Beethoven, the Coen brothers and Picasso visualized in innovative and unexpected ways.
The Cultural Borders of Songs
By Matt Daniels at The Pudding
Chinese National Orchid Diagram
By Yang Zhangbin at Nanjing University of the Arts
Explore Marvel Universe In New ST Graphic
By Billy Ker, Chee Wei Xian & Denise Chong at The Straits Times
The Ring of the Nibelungen
By Palina Pol
You Could Fill a Museum
By Dorothy Gambrell at Bloomberg Businessweek
Australian Survivor Visualised
By Paul Vaartjes
A Visual Guide to 'The Big Lebowski'
By Steven Braun & Matthew McDonald
Coins - A Journey Through a Rich Cultural Collection
By Marian Dörk, Flavio Gortana, Franziska von Tenspolde & Daniela Guhlmann at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Frames of Mind
By Alberto Lucas López at National Geographic
Quartetto Sincronie Performing Beethoven op. 74 num. 10
By Angela Testa, Manlio Massimetti & Prof. Elena Ippoliti at Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Fear and Loathing in Cinema
By Alexey Obzhorin
Fifty Chapters Of Adorable Cuteness: An Ode To Cardcaptor Sakura
By Nadieh Bremer
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Visualization & Information Design
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