Everything Oscar Wilde said or wrote was designed to be quoted. But how far has he succeeded? We used search engines, books of quotations and newspaper archives to work out which of Wilde's...
Doctor Who fans frequenty speculate about the likelihood of recovering episodes from the 1960s that are no longer held in the BBC's archive. In the spring of 2013, one rumour really got fans' hopes...
Meteorites are meteoroids originating in outer space which survive impact with the Earth. From a total of more than 45700 recorded meteorite landings only around 3800 have a mass larger than 1 kg....
The Korean war was a bloody battle that lasted from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953. It was a conflict caused by a divided peninsula, in which both sides wanted reunification but retaining their...
This book is a series of vignettes that takes the reader across a bibliography of works of fiction. The diagram represents that bibliography in alphabetical order. The red path describes how the...
Information graphic design to promote reduction of food waste and carbon footprint. Based on simple yet shocking facts, creating graphical symbols to represent the information being translated:
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Our interactive infographic shows an overview about the relevant parties of Berlin previous to the elections of Bundestag. All these data from all six parties are visualized in form of a pattern....
Manchester City won 2012′s English Premier League. But what if there were no goal-keepers allowed? We visualise how the final table would have looked if the rules of the game were tweaked.
In 2012, over 2,400 Palestinian Prisoners mounted a hunger strike against the Israeli military for detention without trial. –Hunger Strikes' was created as one Palestinian administrative detainee,...
Rainfall Data Browser is developed at the Iowa Flood Center, University of Iowa by Dr. Ibrahim Demir. This interface creates visualization of radar and satellite based rainfall products projected...
This poster shows bycatch in industrial fishery. Bycatch is other fish then the once that the fisheries target and a serious problem for our seas and the species that live in it. Those numbers you...
A portrayal of recurring sounds in the “Sirens” chapter of Ulysses. The implied musicality of this chapter, coupled with the mechanistic-if-it-were-not-intentional recurrence of certain words,...
What are the chances of dying from firearms in America... versus lightning or a bee sting? When the asteroid DA14 sailed close to Earth in February 2013 (without impact), it inspired The...
One of the leading Dutch websites in marketing, www.marketingfacts.nl, asked me if I could design an infographic to come along with their annual report. 'And oh yeah, it will be online...
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...
Originally held at Olympia in Greece between the 8th century BC and the 4th century AD, the Olympic Games returned in 1896 after a 1500 year hiatus. A few sports have been featured on every...
Ancient Chinese inventions include many common items in use today, amongst them paper, silk, matches, gunpowder, and even toothbrushes. The graphic looks at some of these inventions, sorting them...
This map shows monthly average temperatures recorded by approximately 7,280 climate stations around the world since 1900. Our goal was to show the beauty in the diversity of land temperatures,...
Persua created this infographic for the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI).
The aim was to briefly illustrate the history of papermaking in a clear and visually interesting way.
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Although dialogue can be seen as a way to awake emotion in an audience, it also has a logical and constructive nature. It can be used as a way of seeing the overarching hierarchy and plot of a...
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...
In this data visualisation, we chart the source material for the highest-grossing film every year since the original blockbuster, –Gone with the Wind' in 1939. Many were inspired by comic books, TV...
OR-7, also known as "Journey", is the first wolf back in California in nearly a century, and his whereabouts have been tracked via tracking collar. This interactive map shows where he travelled...
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...
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...