After escaping the Nazis, Will Burtin went on to become an early pioneer of infographics in the U.S. You’ve probably never heard of Will Burtin, a German information designer who pioneered ...

The contributions and relevance of a pioneering 20th century information designer is the focus of a new publication by RIT Press. Burtin’s work contrasted with commercial art of the mid-20th century.

Roll up your sleeves. NBC’s updated ‘Big Board’ just made election results a whole lot easier to understand Updates to NBC's famous election night data viz tool just made it easier for correspondents ...

Clad in all black and with a short crop of bright red hair, the Italian information designer Giorgia Lupi was beaming from behind sturdy thick-rim glasses when we met up this April at the annual TED ...

Increasing intelligence requirements and skillful collection technology have flooded the intelligence community with raw information. To address this problem, big data and artificial intelligence ...

The information designer is a relatively new figure on the cultural landscape. The field—devoted to the sophisticated display of data, and the idea that visuals can often tell stories more efficiently ...

The designer Giorgia Lupi was born in 1981 and believes that she is part of a special bridge generation. “I was raised in a completely analog environment,” she says. “I was a teen-ager when all of the ...