The best illustrations and photos from Business Insider in 2023
Dec 30, 2023, 01:24 IST
Business Insider's creative team covered a lot of ground this year. We incorporated animations into our stories, built custom multimedia experiences for our biggest stories, created and commissioned hundreds of illustrations, and worked with photographers around the globe. We visualized everything from the cost of extreme weather to the coronation of King Charles.
We hired nearly 200 talented freelancers to work bring our most compelling stories to life, and created over 1,200 works of custom art.
These are some of our favorite visuals from 2023.
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Why paying off your student loans won't get easier anytime soon
Illustration by Hunter French
Let them live
Illustrations by Deena So'Oteh
What's for breakfast in 2050?
Illustrations by Shira Inbar, Design & Development by Annie Fu and Rebecca Zisser
How Putin's Russian goon squad used Mexican gig workers to troll an American election
Illustration by Rebecca Zisser
The joy and sadness of loving strangers
Photos by Jackie Molloy
AI 100
Illustration by Sua Balac
How Travis Kalanick's sales boot camp for young techies went off the rails
Illustration by Tyler Le
Millions of Americans will soon be able to turn their roofs into a lucrative side hustle
Illustration by Nolan Pelletier
Group chats can ruin your life
Illustration by Min Heo
The world in one borough
Photos by Daniel Terna
Make America build again
Illustrations by Matt Harrison Clough
Orca whales were discovered with a toilet paper chemical in their livers and skeletal muscles
Illustration by Robyn Phelps
Big Tech made America lonely
Illustration by Dadu Shin
Generative AI is transforming businesses everywhere. Big Tech will still be crowned the winner.
Illustration by Cha Pornea
Flipping, twisting, and headspinning for gold
Photos by Little Shao
Vibe check
Design & development by Alyssa Powell and Taylor Tyson
Inside Sam Altman's world, where truth is stranger than fiction
Illustration by Richard A. Chance
Grimes' year from hell
Illustration by Jenny Chang-Rodriguez
She spent her inheritance on TikTok Livestreamers
Illustrations by Nick Little
500 chatbots read the news and discussed it on social media
Illustration by Ian Grandjean
People are using a 20-cent diabetes drug to lose weight and reverse aging — but it can cause explosive diarrhea
Illustration by Arif Qazi
A night inside a strip club near Ukraine's front lines
Photos by Iva Sidash
Millennial and Gen Z parents are struggling
Illustration by Eleanor Davis
Inside the wild, drug-fueled world of Big Talk
Illustrations by Christian Northeast
How I broke the last taboo
Illustrations by Tiago Majuelos
The celebrity divorce playbook
Illustrations by Alexander Wells
'Yellowjackets' star Sophie Nélisse on Shauna's 'really dark path' in season 2 and why Reddit has her rereading the script
Photos by Shane McCauley
Your Fitbit and Apple Watch may wind up hurting you
Illustration by Arantza Pena Popo
The case of the Lego Bandit
Illustrations by Mojo Wang
Goldman Sachs VP Galey Alix wants to be an HGTV star. Will the spotlight crush her — or set her free?
Photos by Sonya Revell
The great Zelle pool scam
Illustrations by Madison Ketcham
Hidden investors took over Corizon Health, a leading prison healthcare company
Photos by Sylvia Jarrus
We watched 1,000 TikToks in one sitting
Illustration by Chelsea Feng
Climate Action 30
Illustration by Máximo Tuja
Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States
Illustration by Matt Rota, design & development by Shayanne Gal and Annie Fu
Iceland only has one rabbi
Photos by Anna Gorin, Heiða Helgadóttir, and Rainy Siagian
I've interviewed dozens of disruptive go-getters from self-made millionaires to entrepreneurs
Illustration by Ricardo Tomás
It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird.
Illustration by Xavier Lalanne-Tauzia
Black Ensemble
Photos by Mamadi Doumbouya and Sarah Krick, design & development by Alyssa Powell and Taylor Tyson
Forever Young
Illustration by Allie Sullberg
App, lover, muse
Photos by Tim Evans, design & development by Rebecca Zisser, Annie Fu, and Kazi Awal
Better Holidays
Illustration by Sol Cotti
Was mass hysteria behind the mysterious case of 227 middle school students fainting last fall?
Illustration by Tara Anand
How Merve Emre became the hottest — and most reviled — name in literary criticism
Photos by Amy Lombard
America is stuck in a greased-pig economy
Illustration by Liam Eisenberg
My husband founded a startup. Then our marriage got weird.
Illustrations by Josh Cochran
Ayesha Curry finds her balance
Photos by Lia Clay Miller
The price we'll pay for our AI future: more loneliness
Illustration by Anna Kim
A visual explainer of everything that will happen at King Charles' coronation
Illustration by Nathan Hacket, design & development by Kazi Awal
Modern Loneliness
Illustration by Holly Stapleton
Long-lived Loma Linda
Photos by Stella Kalinina
Great news — social media is falling apart
Illustration by Hugo Herrera
What loneliness does to your body and brain
Illustrations by Arantza Pena Popo, design & development by Annie Fu
Taking drugs during sex helped me feel alive — then ruined my life
Illustrations by Derek Abella
Call me maybe?
Illustration by Matt Chinworth, design & development by Alyssa Powell, Rebecca Zisser, and Kazi Awal
The predators' playground
Photos by Mark Abramson, design & development by Kazi Awal, Annie Fu, Skye Gould, Hollis Johnson, Will Varner, and Rebecca Zisser
TikTok's power of resurrection
Design & Development by Taylor Tyson, Rebecca Zisser, Skye Gould, and Kazi Awal
The US and China are gearing up for war — and America isn't ready
Illustration by Derek Zheng
Millennials are in their splurge era
Illustration by Nhung Le
The true cost of extreme weather
Photos by Rachel Jessen, Miriam Alarcón Avila, Arin Yoon, and Jason Garza, design & development by Annie Fu