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 infographic that focuses on the consumption of mobile apps during 2011. I've tried to keep the visualizations engaging, informative and relevant to the topic. Although its a static graphic,...
This infographic compares each of the different James Bonds to see which actor is the most popular. Each Bond is laid out on a (literal) target to enable comparison across categories ranging from...
A timeline about the evolution of Mecha done for "Pacific Rim" released in theaters. From Mazinga Z to Gipsy Danger, without forgetting Gundam and Power Rangers.
Released in April this year, How far is it to Mars? is an Interactive infographic based around one beautifully simple concept: Showing the distance between the Earth and Mars as a long scrolling...
The streamgraph shown on this page represents the evolution of Kantian lexicon throughout his philosophical publications. A hundred of the most important words, of the Kant's philosophical...
With GED VIZ, we have developed a web-based tool to visualize flows of trade, finance and migration, thus showing what globalization is about: mutual dependencies. In addition to the flow data, 16...
Every Noise at Once (everynoise.com) is an algorithmically-generated, audio-annotated, dynamically evolving map of the music genre space. It arrays the 700+ major music genres tracked (so far) by...
Infographic for brockhaus, a large encyclopedia publisher from germany. The upper part of the graphic visualizes the worlds highest mountains and their first ascent on a timeline. The bottom part...
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...
Countries with large demographics have obviously more athletes to pick from and thus will collect a larger number of medals. This infographic aims to show which countries were the real winners at...
This visualisation explores the phenomenon of global “brain drain” in science, with an eye towards understanding the reasons why researchers might choose to leave their countries of origin and...
This handout was used as a summary after our popular 'Choose Impact' event (where David McCandless was a speaker). The event aimed to raise the profile and importance of visualisation within the...
Tadpoles in each color illustrate movement of one metric on two dimensions. The head of tadpole (arrow) points to the next position while the tail (small dot) indicates where it comes from. A...
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...
Tech geeks, film fanatics, and music lovers UNITE! It's that time of year again when we all descend en masse to Austin, TX for ten days of panels, screenings, and parties. That's right. We're...
Using data provided by the Hong Kong Observatory, the graphic visualises 23 years worth of rain in Hong Kong, starting from 1990. It shows the daily average rainfall as well as any issued tropical...
This information graphic was made from a set of drawings made in my sketchbook several times a day over many months. I then translated the drawings into vectors developed an overarching structure.
The Department of Energy & Climate Change asked TNS to produce an informative infographic based on consumer attitudes towards energy usage and the impact this has on the environment. This...
The visualisation was created to highlight the social impact building up to Kate Middleton's and Prince Williams Royal wedding.
The visualisations have a simple, clean and clear style that use...
Almost everyone has fond memories of Big Bird, Elmo, and the Cookie Monster. And it turns out that these programs were not only fun to watch, they actually help young children learn. Children under...
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 designed this infographic after being inspired by a post on the Economist's website. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) created a –Where To Be Born Index' in 1988 and now again in 2013. The...
Visualization for the New York Times Magazine on a project of the American art professor Hasan Elahi. The image represents his visual alibi for the year 2007 based on data from his Website.
Everything that happens on Wikipedia is recorded, and as such, constitutes data - a signal that can be parsed for meaning. Looking at the number of times a given article is edited, only for the...
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...
Growing up on robots in movies has always got me wondering if there was ever an epic battle then who would win. Obviously size and firepower would be an advantage, but the biggest robots in movies...
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...