# Beautiful News **Year:** 2020 **Role:** Designer **Client:** Information is Beautiful **Tags:** stories-and-dataviz **Case study:** /work/beautiful-news **Live series:** https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/ I designed 30+ graphics for the [Beautiful News](https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/) project — a series highlighting positive macro trends beyond the headlines of our daily doomscrolling. [Explore the series →](https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/) Each graphic was its own small editorial problem. Working from datasets Stephanie Starling compiled and David McCandless's direction, I found the angle, built the visual, and wrote the headline and body copy. David McCandless and I have known each other since 2009 and had wanted to work together for years. Beautiful News was our chance. ![Data visualization showing that transgender rights are expanding](/work/beautiful-news/502-transgender-rights.svg) ![Data visualization showing that fewer children are dying from pneumonia](/work/beautiful-news/1228-children-pneumonia.svg) ![Data visualization showing that world hunger has reached its lowest point in 25 years](/work/beautiful-news/302-world-hunger.svg) ![Data visualization showing that the number of girls out of primary school worldwide has fallen to an all-time low](/work/beautiful-news/1329-girls-out-of-school.svg) ![Data visualization showing that countries are starting to ban fossil fuel vehicles](/work/beautiful-news/countries-banning-fossil-fuel-vehicles.svg) ![Data visualization showing that rhino populations are growing](/work/beautiful-news/1320-rhino-populations.svg) ![Data visualization showing that female football teams in England have doubled in three years](/work/beautiful-news/1325-women-in-football.svg) ![Infographic showing that home methane digesters can replace inefficient cookstoves](/work/beautiful-news/1151-home-methane-digesters.svg) ![Data visualization showing that populations of large sea turtles are improving](/work/beautiful-news/127-sea-turtles.svg) ![Data visualization showing that 50 countries have reduced their overuse of fertilizers](/work/beautiful-news/673-synthetic-fertilizer.svg) ![Data visualization showing Russia's child mortality is down, while life expectancy is up](/work/beautiful-news/40-russia-mortality-down.svg) ![Infographic showing that giant floating balloons will provide internet in Kenya](/work/beautiful-news/1413-floating-internet-balloons.svg) ![Data visualization showing that over 300 US hospitals have formed their own non-profit drug company](/work/beautiful-news/213-nonprofit-drug-company.svg) ![Data visualization showing that more countries are protecting animals](/work/beautiful-news/1288-animal-welfare-laws.svg) ![Data visualization showing that we've decommissioned 85% of the world's nuclear warheads](/work/beautiful-news/541-nuclear-warheads.svg) ![Infographic showing that rivers could generate thousands of nuclear power plants' worth of energy](/work/beautiful-news/1252-rivers-blue-membrane.svg) ![Data visualization showing the ten diseases we've nearly controlled or eradicated](/work/beautiful-news/1382-disease-eradication.svg) ![Infographic showing that zero-energy buildings are taking off in North America](/work/beautiful-news/612-zero-energy-buildings.svg) ![Infographic showing that biologists in Finland developed a vaccine to protect bees](/work/beautiful-news/1240-vaccine-for-bees.svg) ![Infographic showing that kids in pre-school programs stay in education longer, earning higher incomes](/work/beautiful-news/1345-head-start-works.svg) ![Data visualization showing that coral-like bioconcrete generates no emissions](/work/beautiful-news/1160-zero-emission-concrete.svg) ![Data visualization showing that 476 million more East and South Asians have access to basic drinking water](/work/beautiful-news/535-access-to-safer-water.svg) ![Data visualization showing that Germany bans single-use plastic and styrofoam](/work/beautiful-news/1416-germany-plastic-ban.svg) ![Data visualization showing that more UK smokers are quitting due to COVID-19](/work/beautiful-news/1371-smokers-are-quitting.svg) ![Data visualization showing that even a small portion of fruit or vegetables a day can prevent diabetes](/work/beautiful-news/1395-fruit-veg-diabetes.svg) ![Infographic showing that supercapacitor buses are a thing now](/work/beautiful-news/1336-electric-buses.svg) ![Data visualization showing that net-zero emissions pledges are stacking up across the world](/work/beautiful-news/20-zero-emissions-pledges.svg) ![Data visualization showing that money spent on disadvantaged kids is a great long-term investment](/work/beautiful-news/1335-childhood-programs.svg) ![Data visualization showing that fewer people are dying from neglected tropical diseases](/work/beautiful-news/362-neglected-tropical-diseases.svg) ![Data visualization showing that female youth literacy is up](/work/beautiful-news/1332-female-youth-literacy.svg) ### Republished - *Beautiful News* — David McCandless's print collection of the series. --- [Overview](/llms.txt) · [All work](/) · [About](/about)