Challenges Are Beautiful: The Shortlist

A couple of weeks ago, Information Is Beautiful launched a creative challenge with the Datablog.

Can you visualise the financial crisis? Help us understand, see and generally comprehend what's going on? We gave you the data. You supplied the creativity.

We had hundreds of entries from all around the world in three categories: design, interactive and napkin (a conceptual sketch for people who can't design).

Thanks to everyone for their incredible efforts. We'll announce the winners on Friday.

Until then, here's the long shortlist. Which one is your favourite - or could you do better?

Design entries

European Unemployment by Alex Murrell

€uro Recession by Ben Willers

Euro Debt Crisis by Hang Io

Eurocrisis 2011 - The Outliers by Erik Boertjes

Emerging Volatility in the Eurozone Crisis by Jane Pong

Eropean Debt Crisis: GDP & Debt by Severino

European D€bt by Will Stahl-Timmins

Punching the Clock by Brian S. Julin

The European Debt Crisis, Unfolded by Ben Croker

Ready… Debt… Go! by Wayne Do Rego & Alex Seaton

SpecuNations by David Farrell

Napkin entries

Beware of the Debts by Julian Opitz

Is the Eurozone living the Sisyphus Myth? by Anita Dembinsky

Eurocrisis Key by Anna-Kaisa Jornanainen and data from the Datablog

Eurozone Crisis - How does it relate to you? by Sharon Lin

Financial Universe by Vivek Sharma and Prashant Balasubramanian

Interactive entries

Money Panic by Simon Glover

European Bubbles by Krist Wongsuphasawat

Eurodebts by Eivind Ingebrigtsen, Vigleik Norheim

The Eurozone Bubble by Peter Curet

Eurozone Crisis Chain Reaction by Sofia Miguel Rosa

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