Does your name affect your destiny? By signalling your class, gender or ethnicity, does it make certain careers out of reach? We looked at the most popular first names in a range of professions and...
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...
Since the Roberts Court came into session, trends have suggested a general rightward shift among most of the justices (despite the health care ruling). The reasons are manifold: from Roberts'...
The Infinite Jukebox is a web app and visualization that creates a never-ending and ever-changing version of any song. The app works by using the The Echo Nest music analyzer to decompose a song...
A self initiated information graphics poster (600x800mm) titled "Country Codes". The idea came about after looking up a telephone (Subscriber Trunk Dialling) code to find out which part of the...
This was a project for my personal blog 'design and dragons' about design and Wales. Having moved to North Wales a couple of years ago and being asked a lot of questions about Wales, I wanted give...
The United States Electoral College is the institution that officially elects the President and Vice President of the United Sates every four years.
This political map looks very different from the...
As James Bond marked its 50th anniversary we wanted to find a stylish and fun way to convey some key data about the films. In order to gather our data a number of journalists volunteered to watch...
The Governance Lab (The GovLab) aims to improve people's lives by changing how we govern. The research think-tank seeks new ways to solve public problems using advances in technology and science....
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...
Interactive visualisation with data from the UN's Human Development Report about well-being and development. The website is designed with the aim of presenting well-being in a visual way through...
I created this project for a school assignment last spring, in which I was given the freedom to make an infographic about absolutely anything. I had never made anything like this before, and I...
Fracking is a controversial topic. On the one side the gas drilling companies, on the other citizen opposed to this drilling method. Politicians are also divided on the matter. We try to take a...
ghg worked with Save the Children to communicate the impact and prevalence of child malnutrition around the world, particularly in developing nations. As a leading non-profit organization...
The evolution of the DSM has played a leading role in the medicalization of psychiatry, and has consequently sparked controversy. Proponents argue the hyper-specificity of DSM-V has led to more...
Comparative analysis between the number of smokers and total population of the european union member states. The indicator is defined as the number of current tobacco smokers among the population,...
This plot empirically teases out subtle differences between the words "geek" and "nerd". Two axes represent the words in different dimensions, and plot other English words according to their...
Kindred Britain assembles and visualizes records of nearly 30,000 individuals, mainly (but not exclusively) British. Many of them are extremely well-known in the nation's culture. The database in...
Understand the diversity of California by examining regional idiosyncrasies. Investigate interests like gun advocacy, veganism, country music, and baseball from a geographic perspective. ...
This iconographical alphabet is the result of more than a decade of research and design. In his travels throughout the world, Graphic designer Jean-Benoit Levy discovered that the language of...
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...
This infographic defines the key objects which overtime have had a profound impact on the development of Retail and society. Arriving at the list of 100 objects has been an enriching experience....
State-by-State is the premier data product from Visual Data, designed to be an online destination for visualizing economic and political data about the United States. Targeted towards business...
"Schematics: A Love Story" is a unique and experimental board book that pairs found scientific line graphics with simple prose to form a narrative in which life is mapped, charted and diagramed....
This infographic classifies the adherents of major religions to visualiSe the relative (and changing) sizes of different faiths.
The chosen format takes inspiration from the imagery of a sceptre,...
A set of icons that describes the stadiums used from 1993 to 2013 for the Champions League Final. The style, colors and shapes, is simplified to better describe the various features which...
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...