Information is beautiful

We’re thrilled to announce the much-anticipated longlist for the Information is Beautiful Awards 2025! This year, we received an astounding 1,200+ entries from talented designers, data scientists, and visualisation creatives worldwide.

A massive thank you to everyone who sent in a submission!

» See the longlist

Three years into this terrible conflict, an infographic data story revealing some of the harsh, often hard-to-find numbers around casualties, military budgets and foreign aid in the Russia-Ukraine war.

In times of war, data is difficult to validate, information hard to find. We polled a variety of sources – institutes, traditional media, independent media, civic groups – to find credible estimates and answers to key questions.

How many combatants have been killed and wounded?
What % of territory has been won or lost?
How much money is being spent on the war – and where does it come from?
How important is the USA’s continued support for Ukraine? (Short answer: very).

We hope this data brings a little clarity and shows, at the least, how ongoing international support for Ukraine against the Russian war machine is essential.

» Explore the visualisation
» Check out the dataset

Sources: Kiel Institute, Mediazona, Ukraine Losses, Le Monde, CSIS, SIPRI, New York Times.

Some elements made with VizSweet

Last chance to enter our yearly awards and for a chance to win big from our $20,000+ prize pot.

Hosted by The Data Visualisation Society, a professional home and community for those working in this discipline.

If you create in this field, you may wish to submit your work.

Entries of any type are welcome: infographics, data journalism, maps, interactives, information art, video, animation, app, site, sculpture, or artwork. Pieces can be created in any software, platform, or medium, using any type of materials.

Categories:

» Arts, Entertainment & Culture
» Business Analytics
» Current Affairs & Politics
» Humanitarian
» Leisure, Games & Sport
» People, Language & Identity
» Places, Spaces & Environment
» Science, Technology & Health
» Unusual

Entries are currently open and will close on 3rd Feb 2025.
Any work created between Sep 1st 2023 and Dec 31st 2024 is eligible.

» See more criteria for entry

You can see previous years’ winners and entries on the Information is Beautiful Awards Showcase.

Our yearly celebration of the best infographics and data-visualisations from around the world is back for 2023! Now in its eleventh year and in association with The Data Visualisation Society, a professional home and community for those working in this discipline.

If you create in this field, you may wish to submit your work.

We welcome entries of any type: infographics, data journalism, maps, interactives, information art, video, animation, app, site, sculpture, or artwork. Pieces can be created in any software, platform, or medium, using any type of materials.

Here are the categories open for submission:

» Arts, Entertainment & Culture
» Business Analytics
» Current Affairs & Politics
» Humanitarian
» Leisure, Games & Sport
» People, Language & Identity
» Places, Spaces & Environment
» Science, Technology & Health
» Unusual

Entries are currently open and will close on 31st Jan 2025.
Any work created between Sep 1st 2023 and Dec 31st 2023 is eligible.
Winner will share prizes from a $20,000 pot.

» See more criteria for entry

You can see previous years’ winners and entries on the Information is Beautiful Awards Showcase.

Wait, CORRECTION: “is already”.

A different way of seeing the news.

Ending the year on a positive note, our picks of positive trends and admirable global breakthroughs of 2024.

Part of our Beautiful News project. There we surface the good news and happy data we can’t always see when fixated on the negativity of the news.

» See the charticle
» Explore the data and sources

May we humbly suggest our lush, 256 page infographic books, as potential gifts?

All three, published by Harper Collins, are 256 pages of mind-bending facts and enlightening visuals. If there’s someone in your life who loves numbers and visuals and facts as much as we do, these might be perfect offerings.

Amazon UK
» 68% off our Beautiful News book. Just £8!
» 44% off Information is Beautiful & Beautiful News double-pack

Amazon USA
» Beautiful News book – half price
» Knowledge is Beautiful – 10% off
» The OG Visual Miscellaneum – 30% off

Around the World
» Find deals for Information is Beautiful, Knowledge is Beautiful, Beautiful News

Non-English Language Editions
» FYI Beautiful News is now published in French, German and Dutch languages!
» Our other books have been published across 16 different languages

Ok! That’s it.

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We made this graphical timeline back in 2009 for our book Information is Beautiful using predictions made by experts at longbets.org (a proto prediction market of the time).

Interesting to see how (mostly) wrong & (sometimes) right they were.

» See the graphic
» Designed by Nicky Gibson