Humans are prominent visual beings. We all know that vision is an active and exploratory process. Therefore, it must come to no surprise that it is used frequently in the communication of complex processes and that all of us need, to some degree, be skilled in visual literacy. Rune Pe

Information released by national bureaux of statistics, such as census and economic data, are the bread and butter of data journalism. They are the cornerstones of international comparisons and a rich source of open data, especially in the U. S. and Europe, where all kinds of infograp

  A city like Dubai, home to people from around 200 different countries AND the world’s highest skyscraper, readily lends itself to analogies with the story of the Tower of Babel. Any given day, you are interacting with people who speak a dozen different languages, trying to make

A recent project about traditional dress in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) got us thinking about good old Roland Barthes. He famously interpreted fashion as a language, which, like all languages, is full of myths, codes and paradoxes; at once superficial and profound; fixed in some wa

  The other week something rather exciting landed on our desk: Choi’s Gallery’s new book, Infographic Design, a global portfolio of infographics projects, featuring five projects realised by us. 232-pages full of inspiration, including case studies ranging from the so

Things we look forward to this fall: The annual workshop held by the Society of News Design kicks off in Cleveland, United States, in just two days! Apart from the general meeting of SND officers and board members, the workshop also includes free sessions for students, an iPad design

  These graphics are an interesting starting point for looking at the evolution of visual journalism in the United Arab Emirates. Essentially, this is how it all began. We came across them on a recent visit to the National Center for Documentation and Research (NCDR), a real trea

Here we are with the finished print component of our Olympics project, fresh from the printer’s. Like last time, we made a 52-page, standard size print supplement, which came out on the opening day of the Games. But this time we added a few different elements to the mix.  Click

… for something slightly different. Yes, it’s been a while since the last post, but, finally, the time has come. Not just for the next blog post, but for a slight change of direction: as of now, this is no longer ‘just’ a portfolio site. From now on, my team and I (aka the

Richest race of the world it was here. A poster for newspaper, part of the campaign for Dubai World Cup 2011