In 2010 New York City added 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but that number means little to most people because few of us have a sense of scale for atmospheric...

While Wikipedia is a most modern creation, its content reflects a historical accumulation of facts and attention. This map of London shows the density of articles in Wikipedia associated with...

The convoluted relationships between the Marvel characters before they finally get it together

This visualization shows the number of grand operas in europe, subdivided by author (the outer ring) and by city (the inner shapes). Each city is represented with a polygon in which each vertex...

From his early silent films in the UK to his –golden years' at Paramount, Alfred Hitchcock returned to the same motifs and themes time and time again. Here we analyse some of these trademark...

Here I Go Again is a data visualization of myself and my daily habits over the duration of a week. For the entire week I documented various vital signs every half hour and recorded personal data...

Created for a 2013 Social Media Week presentation, “Going Private in Public” outlines key findings from the JWTIntelligence trend of the same name, using an up-tempo soundtrack, clean and bold...

This visualization explores the story of Nobel prizes through years. Visualized for each laureate are prize category, year the prize was awarded, and age of the recipient at the time, as well as...

One of the world's most dangerous hot-spots are the seas in Asia where China, Japan and Korea make overlapping claims of sovereignty. Static maps never did a good job to explain the territorial...

In 2012 there were approximately 810 million people over 60 years old in the world. This number is projected to grow to more than 2 billion by 2050, at which point the elderly will outnumber...

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,...

An interactive that combines six separate polls and three sets of betting odds into one visualisation that gives readers an immediate insight into how the political temperature was tracking during...

In two centuries, the world has been dramatically transformed by a series of interconnected moments-the breakthroughs, creations, discoveries, innovations, revolutions and momentous human...

A large-format educational poster, this timescape traces the history of graphic design in the twentieth century. It is a presentation of major design movements emerging out of western Modernism...

In July this year, a fairly significant piece of British Tennis history went down. Andy Murray, won Wimbledon. The first British male to win it since Fred Perry in 1936. However, the win seemed...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease spread by coughing and sneezing that usually attacks the lungs. It was one of the world's leading causes of death before antibiotics were introduced in the...

Humans have been keeping honeybees for thousands of years, yet the insects still manage to surprise us. Lost in the debate over what is causing the death of bees is how intricately complex their...

Comic-book superheroes battle bad guys. But the two main comic publishers fight commercially in even tougher ways. Alongside the release of 2013's summer superhero movies, The Economist produced a...

This infographic shows six classic films that flopped in the box office but succeeded in the long run.

Infographic on aquaculture in the World

The Startup Universe displays and explores the relationships between startup companies and their founders and investors (Venture Capitalists) since 1990.

Confessions of a Blog-a-holic is an infographic displaying the blogging habits (frequency and times of posts) of a Graphic Design student between 2009 and 2011.

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.

London-based information design agency Signal Noise has launched a new version of last season's successful Transfer Window website with updated features for the 2013/2014 season. The huge sums of...

The Canadian Red Cross faces a constant challenge in the market regarding awareness for the breadth of programs and services we provide at home and abroad. Communicating the wide range of areas we...

The Periodic Table of Storytelling provides an entry point into TVTropes. Much like Mendeleev's Periodic Table, this infographic organizes the fundamental building blocks of storytelling into...

These new city maps are formed by –connecting the dots' between stores of major brands, such as McDonalds, Starbucks, The Body Shop etc. By linking them and covering the area between them the image...

The Economist's defense correspondent in 2013 revealed to the world how close Iran was to building a nuclear bomb. But it took a 3-page article to explain. So our graphics editor intricately...

This infographic is the visual representation of the 8th annual edition of the BrandZâ„¢ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands. Using data collected by Millward Brown on behalf of WPP it helps to...

A descriptive interactive visualization of the education levels of world leaders, from 1950 or thereabouts to the present day.