client

Sebastian helped the Bertelsmann Foundation with the research in free trade and created an interactive tool to make the data about free trade agreements more accessible and fun to explore. In collaboration with the World Trade Insitute.

Team

Sebastian Lühr (Sadowski)

Release

October 2015

Interested?

insight

Focused on the historical evolution of Free Trade Agreements.

As the first visualization of free trade agreements, the tool is focused on the historical evolution of FTAs over the past 66 years, helping researchers, journalists and economist to better understand free trade.

DATA VISUALIZATION DESIGN

New perspectives with a custom data visualization design.

Scientists, journalists or economists can generate custom visualization of all agreements available and use an export function to render high-resolution screenshots for their publications.

WHAT WE DID

Data stories

We shared findings on a micro-blog and produced a short video to make it easy and fast to find trends and stories.

documentation

Making-of-story featured in graphic magazines and on Medium.

IMPACT

Used by policymakers around the world.

Visited by more than 10,000 active users.

Used by researchers and policymakers such as New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade.

Featured in magazines such as Novum – world of graphic design. 

Awarded with the Special German Design Award 2016 for Excellent Communications Design. Read more

Selected works