About the competition
Information graphics are visual representations of data or concepts intended to enhance understanding and interpretation of complex information. They are utilized to illustrate statistics, processes, relationships, or various types of data.
Incorporating infographics into education, business, advertising, or scientific contexts can significantly enhance visual and effective communication. Well-crafted infographics are not only informative but also visually appealing and pertinent. Infographics aim to communicate and maintain essential information in a visual form, leveraging factual data, visual metaphors, and graphic principles.
Professionals from diverse visual communication fields are encouraged to submit their work for this nomination to showcase their talent and advancements in this area.
Requirements
We welcome entries in the field of information graphics, which may encompass a variety of elements: - diagrams - cards - schematics - technical and scientific illustrations - data-driven compositions
The jury will assess the information graphics based on the following criteria: - informational content - accuracy - legibility and readability - visual appeal - stylistic coherence
Entries are accepted in three categories: - Print, including any printed materials; - Online, encompassing products distributed via the internet; - Data art represents artistic statements based on measurements, statistics, calculations, or documentary materials.
Submitted projects must have been published or created from January 2021 through the end of March 2024.
Prospective participants are encouraged to review the methodological recommendations specific to each nomination category before entering the competition.
Competition stages
March 01 — start of project submissions April 09 — deadline for submissions April 26 — announcement of results
Jury
- Tina Berezhnaya — the chair of the jury and the academic director of the «Data Journalism» educational program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics - Anton Maryinsky — the teacher of the course «Infographics and Illustrated Data» and the curator of «Art Practice» at HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL. He is also a graphic artist, illustrator, and designer, having completed a Master of Arts at UdK Berlin and collaborating with Tinkoff, Yandex, Avito, Greenpeace, and Süddeutsche Zeitung - Vasily Egorov — the art director at the TASS infographics studio - Alexander Bogachev — data journalist, data visualization specialist, and author of the book Grafiki, kotorye ubezhdayut vsekh [Graphs that convince everyone]. - Andrey Dorozhny — an expert in data storytelling and data journalism - Sabina Vakhitova — the leader of the TASS infographics group - Alexey Smagin — a data journalist and analyst within the Yandex Research team, and is known for his work on the Telegram channel @data.csv - Denis Zolotarev — the head of media design at the international media group Russia Today
- Nadezhda Andrianova — a designer in the Yandex Research team, specializing in data visualization, and is also a teacher. She is the creator of the channel @designing_numbers and has been recognized as a prize-winner in various international competitions, including the Information Is Beautiful Awards, Malofiej, How Design Awards, Moscow Datavis Awards, and more
- Nadezhda Andrianova — a designer in the Yandex Research team, specializing in data visualization, and is also a teacher. She is the creator of the channel @designing_numbers and has been recognized as a prize-winner in various international competition - Anton Mizinov — an authority in the field of infographics and data visualization, having achieved multiple wins in international competitions - Roman Bunin — an expert in data visualization and the author of the Reveal the Data channel - Denis Zaporozhan — a teacher at HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL in Saint Petersburg. Design director for product and communication design at Gazprom Neft, former creative director of the RIA Novosti infographics studio, author of the DZENDESIGN channel - Natalya Kiseleva — the author of the Data-Comics Telegram channel, a dashboard trainer, a data art and comics researcher and the senior editor of the international dataviz magazine MakeYourDataSpeak - Nikita Rokotyan — a dataviz engineer and designer, founder of the Interacta studio, co-author of the large graph visualization tool Cosmograph and the Unovis web library, runs the telegram channel @dataviznews
Prizes
1st place — 50,000 RUB 2nd place — 30,000 RUB 3rd place — 20,000 RUB
References
Iconography of the Middle Ages How livestock farming affects the environment Infographics for the work «Hero of Our Time» Noise pollution infographic
We have also prepared a guide for working with the platform, which will help you quickly and easily create an account and upload a project.
Contacts
HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL Malaya Pionerskaya St. 12, Moscow, creativeopen@hsedesign.ru