Information Design People, Studios, Research Labs, and Journalistic Teams

People

Artists & Designers

• Mindy Seu – Researcher and designer exploring digital archives and feminist internet histories.
• Lauren McCarthy – Artist examining social relationships in the age of automation and surveillance.
• Ben Grosser – Creates software art that disrupts platforms and questions metrics-driven culture.
• Sarah Friend – Artist and software developer whose work explores trust, decentralization, and digital identity.
• Sarah Ciston – Combines machine learning and poetry to challenge structures of power and voice.
• Rosa Menkman – Researcher and artist known for her work on glitch aesthetics and resolution theory.
• Tega Brain – Environmental engineer and artist working on the weirdness of data systems and ecology.
• Constant Dullaart – Explores digital identity and manipulation of social platforms.
• Kim Asendorf – Net artist working with algorithms, compression, and generative systems.
• Casey Reas – Co-creator of Processing, artist working at the intersection of software and generative form.
• Zach Blas – Artist-theorist focused on biometric surveillance and queerness.
• Trevor Paglen – Visualizes invisible power structures: surveillance, military, AI.
• Aram Bartholl – Creates interventions connecting digital systems to public space.
• Anna Engelhardt – Critical media artist researching post-Soviet cyberwarfare and infrastructure.
• Sophie Dyer – Works at the intersection of feminist OSINT and collaborative mapping.
• Julian Oliver – Critical engineer building tools to expose and challenge technological power.
• Dietmar Offenhuber – Focuses on urban data, visual evidence, and accountability.
• Burak Arikan Website broken – Works with network maps to reveal power relations in social and economic systems.
• Paolo Cirio – Hacktivist artist tackling surveillance, privacy, and data capitalism.
• Nathalie Miebach – Translates meteorological and climate data into sculptures and musical scores.
• Joost Grootens – Book designer specializing in complex data and atlases.
• Nicholas Felton – Pioneer of personal data visualization, creator of the "Feltron Reports."
• Vladan Joler – Maps the anatomy of technological systems, including AI and supply chains.
• Minjeong An - Minjeong An visualizing ideas that are emotional or subjective into forms that feel objective, structured and mapped.

Studios & Research Labs

• Studio Folder – Milan-based design and research studio working at the intersection of visual culture and political data.
• Forensic Architecture – Investigative research agency using spatial and data analysis to uncover human rights violations.
• DensityDesign Lab – Research lab focused on information design for complex social, political, and cultural phenomena.
• Tactical Tech – Berlin-based collective working on data, privacy, and digital literacy through exhibitions and toolkits.
• The Pudding – Collective publishing visual essays that explain ideas through data-driven storytelling.
• metaLAB (at) Harvard & Berlin – Interdisciplinary lab exploring digital humanities, arts, and design as research.

Journalistic Teams

• ZEIT Online – Data & visualization team known for innovative scrollytelling and civic data projects.
• New York Times Graphics – Leading force in news-driven visual storytelling.
• NZZ Visuals – Swiss data journalism group creating clean, powerful visualizations.
• SPIEGEL Data – Investigative visuals from one of Germany’s major newsrooms.
• Reuters Graphics – International news organization publishing sharp and timely data visualizations.