Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards were created in 2012 by journalist and designer
David McCandless with the collaboration of
Aziz Cami (Creative Director at Kantar), and since then they have rewarded the excellence and beauty of infographics, data visualization and design of information. This year, in which the
MoMA has included in its permanent collection the 2015 edition winners,
Stefanie Posavec and
Giorgia Lupi with their project
Dear Data, the
Kantar awards have taken even more dimension. We invite you to browse through each of the projects, they worth it.
In its fifth edition 10 Golds, 11 Silvers, 15 Bronzes and 5 Honourable Mentions have been distributed.
Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards has over $ 30,000 in prizes - $ 1,000each
Gold Award, $ 500 each
Silver Award, $ 250 each
Bronze Award,
One special award of $ 1,000, and
The Most Beautiful Award receives $5,000 - around 40 illustrious judges and are composed by 17 categories: Data Visualization, Infographic, Interactive, Motion Infographic, Data Journalism, Mini and Mobile Visualization, Free Dataviz Tool, Dataviz Website, Data Visualization Project, Best Team, Individual Achievement, Student, Community Vote - based on the Complete Shortlist 2015, Commercial Client Project, Internal Business Project, Commercial Studio and Most Beautiful.
The winning project have been:
GOLD.-
FiveThirtyEight for works including 2016 Election Forecast (USA)
SILVER .-
Bloomberg for works including Who Marries Whom? (USA)
BRONZE.-
Guardian for works including The Dark Side of Guardian Comments (UK)
BRONZE.-
Quartz for works including Explore the complicated network of allies and enemies in Syria’s civil war (USA)