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Design Category
Information design, 2006
Design firm
MGMT. design (Brooklyn, New York)
Collection
(2007) AIGA 365: 28

Description

The third installment of a series for The New York Times that began in 2005, this illustration visualizes the total number of deaths in the Iraq War during January 2007. The map graphically translates complex statistics into an iconographic representation of the human cost of war. This latest iteration showed a dramatic increase of incidents from the past two years, creating a growing challenge to depict the escalating data with each passing year.

Credits
Art director: Brian Rea
Designer: Alicia Cheng
Editor: Toby Harshaw
Writer: Adriana Lins de Alburquerque
Client: The New York Times
Juror Notes

“Looking at these pages, the weight of the carnage in Iraq is inescapable.”