14 Best Information Designers and Animators

Information design now spans static charts, maps, illustration, and motion explainers. This guide lists fourteen designers and animators, from Lisa Mahapatra's clear charts to Elanor Lutz and Jake O'Neal's animated science pieces.

• Why it matters: Complex stories need specialists who choose the right visual form instead of defaulting to one chart type.
• Case in point: Ghergich uses illustration when a process will not fit a simple chart.
• How it works: Simran Khosla and Alissa Scheller lean on maps and clean chart craft for cultural and economic stories.
• Zoom in: Stef Prein and Andrew Davies show how transitions and mood shifts keep motion readable.
• The bottom line: Match the brief to the maker's strength before you commission the next explainer.

In the past few years, information design has been blossoming into a full industry. In 2025, designers and animators that specialize in information design were in higher demand than we have ever seen. Here are 14 of the top infographic designers and animators from 2025.

1. Lisa Mahapatra uses simple charts with great angles on interesting data. She excels at finding and showing the real story in data in a crystal clear, but entertaining manner.

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2. Ghergich excels at explaining slightly more complex issues. Sometimes a simple chart isn’t enough to show a process, and that’s when Ghergich’s beautiful and unique illustrative styles are useful.

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by Ghergich.

3 & 4. David Wildish and Steve Wildish are two brothers that both do fantastic illustrations. A great eye for design must run in the family, because they both produce beautifully iconic representations of the world around them. David has an eye for pop culture, distilling it all down to crisp and clean illustrations.

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Steve has a great sense of humor, and has created quite a few classics fit for framing.

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by Wildyles.

5. Combining illustrations with data is a truly impressive skill, and not many do it better than Jacob Hernandez. His illustrative style ranges from realistic to diagrammatic, but it is always effective.

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6. Sometimes a designer’s work is driven by their love of a subject. That is clearly true for Lou Spirito in his great baseball-focused graphics.

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by louspirito.

7. Some stories are best told with a simple map. Simran Khosla does a great job with simple colors and text on world maps to show cultural and economic differences around the world.

8. Alissa Scheller also does great infographics focused on simple charts showing data in interesting ways. This skill-set is core to information design, and Alissa is a the top of the pack.

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9 & 10. Animated infographics have become even more popular since many social media platforms have added support for them. Elanor Lutz and Jake O’Neal have both been pioneers in the medium. Elanor’s graphics focus on biological processes and other scientific subjects.

There’s something a bit hypnotic about seeing data come to life through motion, especially when it’s cleverly paired with a dash of wit or a perfectly timed reveal. A well-crafted animated infographic can turn a complicated topic into a two-second “aha” moment, and honestly, that’s no small feat. Even in 2025, as AI-generated animations try to squeeze in everywhere, it’s these designers who remind you that human intuition and visual humor are impossible to mass-produce. You know when you’re looking at something that was made by a person who actually cared.

In the past year, it’s been interesting to watch established infographic artists dabble more in experimental formats—think interactive elements and scroll-based triggers that react to where you are on the page. These shifts keep the field evolving, though not every experiment lands. Still, the willingness to play with novel approaches is what keeps audiences interested and ensures that none of these creators merely coast on their reputations. It’s one thing to interpret the world’s information, but it’s another thing entirely to make people truly care about it for those few moments they’re scrolling on their phone during a break.

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Jake’s graphics address a range of cool topics, and all of them are better as animations than as still graphics.

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by Jake O’Neal.

11. Full animation is a difficult discipline as it requires great timing, an ear for good audio, and still needs a good sense of design. Jot Reyes excels at all of these with Hollywood quality special effects to boot.

12. Philipp Dettmer is another superb animator. Philipp’s style is clean and simple, and he does a fantastic job with visually explaining complex processes.

13. In animation, clever transitions and animations of static elements are a key way to keeping an audience engaged and entertained. Stef Prein does a fantastic job with transitions and animations in all of his work.

14. Being nimble enough to create completely different moods with animation is an impressive skill. Andrew Davies has this ability to change the atmosphere of his animations depending on the needs of the topic.

Visually is full of a plethora of great information designers and animators producing beautiful work that helps to explain and visualize the world’s information.

Drew Skau is Visualization Architect at Visually and a PhD Computer Science Visualization student at UNCC with an undergraduate degree in Architecture. You can follow him on Twitter @SeeingStructure