visual essay

Kenichi Tanaka: Japan-A Strange Country

UPDATE: English VO version found on youtube! Thanks for the info, tvp. Kenichi Tanaka made this thesis piece to show…

14 years ago

Julien Nantiec for Ulule

Julien Nantiec for Ulule

14 years ago

Airside + Demos: The Power Gap

British think-tank Demos teamed up with creative agency Airside to create "The Power Gap," a three-minute visual essay that surveys…

14 years ago

The Story of Cap & Trade

A new installment in the Story of Stuff series: The Story of Cap & Trade. (Thanks, Jeff!)

14 years ago

Nuru International: Visual Essay “How Nuru Works”

Nuru International puts a typographic spin on erasing extreme poverty in this visual essay, How Nuru Works.

15 years ago

Peppermill Berlin: “The Big Coup”

Peppermill Berlin recently created a fine visual essay for German rail company Deutsche Bahn. We'd normally Quickie this sort of…

15 years ago

Jonathan Jarvis and The New Mediators

Building on the success of his incredibly lucid and educational animation, "The Crisis of Credit Visualized," designer/animator Jonathan Jarvis announced…

15 years ago

Picturelab: Mint “One Trillion Dollars Visualized”

Picturelab shows us why trillion is the new billion. Based on the work by Jess Bachman of WallStats.

15 years ago

Crush: Hellmann’s “It’s Time for Real”

Nice mix of metaphor and infographics in this visual essay from Crush and Sons and Daughters' Steve Gordan urging Canadians…

15 years ago

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

"Oh great, here comes Old Man Cone again, rambling about visual essays." I know, I know, but I really do…

15 years ago

Michael Reissinger: “A Short History of Marketing”

Michael Reissinger directed and illustrated this informative little diddy about the history of marketing

15 years ago

Kyle Downes: A Short History of Video Games

"A Short History of Video Games" from Kyle Downes for his degree at RMIT in Melbourne

15 years ago

Theo Alexopoulos: Preparedness Now

ShakeOut sets up this project better than I ever could: Up-and-coming film director, motion graphics designer and Art Center College…

15 years ago

Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip

For his Animation MA at the Royal College of Art, Leo Murray created an ambitious 11-minute short film on climate…

16 years ago

The Comma

The Comma, for the Brazilian Press Association (ABI) (Thanks, Umy!)

16 years ago

VFS: Perfect the way we are

Vancouver Film School alumni and faculty teamed up to create Perfectthewayweare.ca, a website and visual essay attempting to bring some…

16 years ago

GOOD: The Hidden Cost of War

I love GOOD's Transparency series. By combinging great writing with clean, concise visuals, GOOD consistently produces top-notch visual essays that…

16 years ago

GOOD Magazine: Lords of the Rings

GOOD Magazine's latest addition to its Transparency series, "Lords of the Rings," created in collaboration with Dorian Orange.

16 years ago

Axel Rudolph: Knowledge

[Updated with subtitles] For his final year project at Berufsakademie Ravensburg in Germany, Axel Rudolph created "Knowledge," a proof-of-concept video…

16 years ago

Framestore CFC: “Sugar Battery”

"Sugar Battery," a new visual essay from Framestore CFC's design team, is a solid follow up to their previous "Hydrogen"…

17 years ago