Post’s infographics team scoops gold award at 2018 Kantar Information is Beautiful competition in New York
- Visual presentation about Thai cave rescue in July honoured with gold prize in breaking news category
- It beat competition from The Guardian, FiveThirtyEight, Behance, Mondo, Clarin and Neue Bürcher Beitung.
The South China Morning Post’s infographics team won a gold award at the 2018 edition of Kantar’s Information is Beautiful awards in New York on Tuesday.
The winning work was by the team’s deputy head, Adolfo Arranz, digital design director Marco Hernandez, infographic designers Marcelo Duhalde and Pablo Robles, and graphic designer Dennis Wong.
It scooped gold prize in the category of Breaking News, beating competition from opinion poll analysis site FiveThirtyEight, which took silver for its visualisation of the destruction Hurricane Irma was predicted to cause; and design company Behance, which made an infographic on the effects of the US-China trade war for Italian newspaper La Reppublica.
After the Thai boys went missing it became clear very early on that nobody really understood what was happening, the team’s head Darren Long said on Wednesday.
There were reports that the boys, who could not swim, were going to scuba dive their way to freedom using fins, while other stories included holes being drilled to pull them to safety and submarines being sent in.