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 his countrymen that things that… Read more

Julien Nantiec for Ulule

Julien Nantiec for Ulule

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 the history of power structures… Read more

The Story of Cap & Trade

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

Nuru International: Visual Essay “How Nuru Works”

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

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 thing, but the video comes… Read more

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 an interesting new venture, The… Read more

Picturelab: Mint “One Trillion Dollars Visualized”

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

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 to eat local

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 believe that when motion design… Read more

Michael Reissinger: “A Short History of Marketing”

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

Kyle Downes: A Short History of Video Games

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

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 of Design alumnus, Theo Alexopoulos,… Read more

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 change, “Wake Up, Freak Out… Read more

The Comma

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

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 of Canada’s pressing social and… Read more

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 treat viewers like intelligent beings.… Read more

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.

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 for his vision of what… Read more

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” for production company Coast. Taking… Read more