Libération

2022

Country/area: France

Organisation: Libération

Organisation size: Big

Cover letter:

Libération is a national french newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973. In 2021, three data driven journalists in Libé gathered to launch the project of a daily chart with a strong visual identity.
Here is the team : Alice Clair started as a graphic designer specialised in branding before integrating a datavisualisation studio in 2015. She joined Libération’s infographic team in 2020. Julien Guillot has been working as a data journalist in different infographics studios including BiG and joined Libération in 2014. Savinien de Rivet is a data journalist and developer who joined Libération in 2016. Our main inspirations are the work of Edward Tufte and David McCandless (especially Beautiful News) and all our fellow data journalists and data visualisation designers out there (FT, The Economist, the Pudding…)

Description of portfolio:

Our project is called «Data du jour» and consists in a daily chart about a news subject.
They are square shaped for the most part in order to be equally readable on mobile and desktop screens. We called our visual identity Bora-Bora© because of the use of the whole surface of the chart from edge to edge (bord-à-bord in French). This way the visual representation of the data uses the most part of the chart with few visual clutter. We use colour gradients and coloured backgrounds to enhance focus on important data and also make our charts more appealing.
For the most part, «Data du jour» charts are published in PNG format with a short article, but we also use interactive charts when it is relevant, like in our Morphocarte©.
On the homepage of Libération’s website, the image associated with the article is made of pure data, without any typographic element of the full chart. Our «Data du jour» is easily shareable on social media and draws a lot of attention. Sometimes our charts are even used on the front page of the printed newspaper.

Here is the link to the latest «Data du jour» graphs
https://www.liberation.fr/dossier/data-matin/

Omicron vertigo on the front page of Libération
https://journal.liberation.fr/liberation/liberation/2022-01-07

Our interactive Morphocarte© showing the correlation of vaccination rate and higher GDP.
https://www.liberation.fr/societe/sante/plus-un-pays-est-riche-plus-sa-population-est-vaccinee-contre-le-covid-20220112_FAXQQB4OGFBUDHXAPQ62UCVLRU/

Waves of covid variants in France
https://www.liberation.fr/societe/sante/covid-19-retour-sur-une-annee-de-valse-des-variants-20211210_HN7U2OEZKZCDBE6X535KIEK4HA/

Hunting in France
https://www.liberation.fr/plus/numeros-speciaux/les-chasseurs-francais-tuent-22-millions-danimaux-par-an-20211108_CUSOY42UVZHKJKF2JR5RNHCLWI/

At the age of retirement, 1 out of 4 of the poorest is already dead
https://www.liberation.fr/societe/a-lage-de-la-retraite-25-des-plus-pauvres-sont-deja-morts-20211201_ZPDCTHANSFAV5L26524QHTQR2E/

How vaccination attenuated the third wave of Covid in the UK
https://www.liberation.fr/societe/sante/covid-19-au-royaume-uni-la-vaccination-reduit-le-nombre-de-morts-malgre-la-flambee-20211116_ANWN2EYD5RGUZMQYQJ2YVVHW44/

Carbon impact of French people
https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/empreinte-carbone-70-des-emissions-de-co2-proviennent-des-transports-du-chauffage-et-de-lalimentation-20211026_OUUXERGXT5EKDNWG5MBZEXK4WA/

Vaccine doses delivery from rich to poor countries
https://www.liberation.fr/societe/covax-la-france-na-pour-linstant-honore-que-7-de-ses-promesses-de-dons-de-vaccins-pour-2021-20210913_LUQC5PLEXJF4DJCQW3RCBXYODA/

Putin and the 40 world leaders
https://www.liberation.fr/international/europe/poutine-et-les-40-dirigeants-du-g7-20210616_725IYOTTNFFAFGPA5FBSJCPAPE/