With The Force Awakens quickly becoming last year's biggest hit movie it's no surprise that numerous artists decided to visualize stuff that happened "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Here for your inspiration are four fantastic graphics based on the Star Wars saga....

As we reported when the longlist went public, the superlative New York Times Graphics team was unable to take part in the awards as their editorial guidelines prevent entry to awards sponsored by commercial, political or professional associations. Nevertheless we think that th...

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...

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...

Explore the shelves of Iran’s National Library with Small Media’s new interactive report, Writer’s Block. The interactive uncovers the extent of corruption and censorship in Iran’s publishing industry by visualizing the record of book publishing in Iran since the 1979 Revol...

Cloudred have visualized 50 years of plays, performers and directors behind Shakespeare in the Park, one of the big apple’s most beloved summer traditions. After 12 design layout variations, cloudred developed this fascinating interactive homage to the great summertime inst...

Open data can empower citizens and spark debate. That’s exactly what pioneers in open data, Rennes Metropolis, set out to do when they commissioned data visualization studio Dataveyes to create Qui Sommes Nous? The web interactive transforms Rennes' census data into a us...

Meet Andrey Karmatsky’s latest interactive, Bike share stats in Moscow. Toggle to view bike share stats on the most popular journeys (Route), activity across time (Activity) and changing use across seasons and weather conditions (Timeline). Andrey created the viz wit...