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.

Why paying off your student loans won't get easier anytime soon

Illustration by Hunter French

Foto: Hunter French for BI

Let them live

Illustrations by Deena So'Oteh

Foto: Deena So'Oteh for BI

What's for breakfast in 2050?

Illustrations by Shira Inbar, Design & Development by Annie Fu and Rebecca Zisser

Foto: Shira Inbar for BI

How Putin's Russian goon squad used Mexican gig workers to troll an American election

Illustration by Rebecca Zisser

Foto: Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images; iStock; #WagnerLeaks; Rebecca Zisser/BI

The joy and sadness of loving strangers

Photos by Jackie Molloy

Tobi Akbas on his iPad, hanging out before karate in his home in Garrison, NY. Foto: Jackie Molloy for BI

AI 100

Illustration by Sua Balac

Foto: Sua Balac for BI

How Travis Kalanick's sales boot camp for young techies went off the rails

Illustration by Tyler Le

Foto: Tyler Le/BI

Millions of Americans will soon be able to turn their roofs into a lucrative side hustle

Illustration by Nolan Pelletier

Foto: Nolan Pelletier for BI

Group chats can ruin your life

Illustration by Min Heo

Foto: Min Heo for BI

The world in one borough

Photos by Daniel Terna

Foto: Daniel Terna for BI

Make America build again

Illustrations by Matt Harrison Clough

Foto: Matt Harrison Clough for BI

Orca whales were discovered with a toilet paper chemical in their livers and skeletal muscles

Illustration by Robyn Phelps

Foto: Robyn Phelps/BI

Big Tech made America lonely

Illustration by Dadu Shin

Foto: Dadu Shin for BI

Generative AI is transforming businesses everywhere. Big Tech will still be crowned the winner.

Illustration by Cha Pornea

Foto: Cha Pornea for BI

Flipping, twisting, and headspinning for gold

Photos by Little Shao

B-Girl Sunny at the World Breaking Championship in Leuven, Belgium Foto: Little Shao for BI

Vibe check

Design & development by Alyssa Powell and Taylor Tyson

Foto: Courtesy of Lindsey Weiss; Barry Williams/ NY Daily News/Getty; Guillermo Spelucin Runciman/Getty; Alyssa Powell/BI

Inside Sam Altman's world, where truth is stranger than fiction

Illustration by Richard A. Chance

Foto: Richard A. Chance for BI

Grimes' year from hell

Illustration by Jenny Chang-Rodriguez

Foto: Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BI

She spent her inheritance on TikTok Livestreamers

Illustrations by Nick Little

Foto: Nick Little for BI

500 chatbots read the news and discussed it on social media

Illustration by Ian Grandjean

Foto: Ian Grandjean for BI

People are using a 20-cent diabetes drug to lose weight and reverse aging — but it can cause explosive diarrhea

Illustration by Arif Qazi

Foto: Arif Qazi/BI

A night inside a strip club near Ukraine's front lines

Photos by Iva Sidash

Foto: Iva Sidash for BI

Millennial and Gen Z parents are struggling

Illustration by Eleanor Davis

Foto: Eleanor Davis for BI

Inside the wild, drug-fueled world of Big Talk

Illustrations by Christian Northeast

Despite its size and influence, the celebrity-speaker industry has long existed in the shadowy nexus of the entertainment industrial complex, its inner workings invisible to outsiders. Foto: Christian Northeast for BI

How I broke the last taboo

Illustrations by Tiago Majuelos

Foto: Tiago Majuelos for BI

The celebrity divorce playbook

Illustrations by Alexander Wells

Foto: Alexander Wells for BI

'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

Foto: Shane McCauley for BI taken at the London West Hollywood Hotel

Your Fitbit and Apple Watch may wind up hurting you

Illustration by Arantza Pena Popo

Foto: Arantza Pena Popo for BI

The case of the Lego Bandit

Illustrations by Mojo Wang

Foto: Mojo Wang for BI

Goldman Sachs VP Galey Alix wants to be an HGTV star. Will the spotlight crush her — or set her free?

Photos by Sonya Revell

Foto: Sonya Revell for BI

The great Zelle pool scam

Illustrations by Madison Ketcham

Foto: Madison Ketcham for BI

Hidden investors took over Corizon Health, a leading prison healthcare company

Photos by Sylvia Jarrus

Foto: Sylvia Jarrus for BI

We watched 1,000 TikToks in one sitting

Illustration by Chelsea Feng

Foto: Chelsea Jia Feng for BI

Climate Action 30

Illustration by Máximo Tuja

Foto: Máximo Tuja for BI

Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States

Illustration by Matt Rota, design & development by Shayanne Gal and Annie Fu

Foto: Matt Rota for BI

Iceland only has one rabbi

Photos by Anna Gorin, Heiða Helgadóttir, and Rainy Siagian

Foto: Heiða Helgadóttir for BI

I've interviewed dozens of disruptive go-getters from self-made millionaires to entrepreneurs

Illustration by Ricardo Tomás

Foto: Ricardo Tomás for BI

It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird.

Illustration by Xavier Lalanne-Tauzia

Foto: Xavier Lalanne-Tauzia for BI

Black Ensemble

Photos by Mamadi Doumbouya and Sarah Krick, design & development by Alyssa Powell and Taylor Tyson

Foto: Mamadi Doumbouya for BI

Forever Young

Illustration by Allie Sullberg

Foto: Allie Sullberg for BI

App, lover, muse

Photos by Tim Evans, design & development by Rebecca Zisser, Annie Fu, and Kazi Awal

Jay Priebe stands for a portrait as his Replica, Calisto, is reflected in his glasses. Foto: Tim Evans for BI

Better Holidays

Illustration by Sol Cotti

Foto: Sol Cotti for BI

Was mass hysteria behind the mysterious case of 227 middle school students fainting last fall?

Illustration by Tara Anand

Foto: Tara Anand for BI

How Merve Emre became the hottest — and most reviled — name in literary criticism

Photos by Amy Lombard

Foto: Amy Lombard for BI

America is stuck in a greased-pig economy

Illustration by Liam Eisenberg

Foto: Liam Eisenberg for BI

My husband founded a startup. Then our marriage got weird.

Illustrations by Josh Cochran

Foto: Josh Cochran for BI

Ayesha Curry finds her balance

Photos by Lia Clay Miller

Foto: Lia Clay Miller for BI

The price we'll pay for our AI future: more loneliness

Illustration by Anna Kim

Foto: Anna Kim for BI

A visual explainer of everything that will happen at King Charles' coronation

Illustration by Nathan Hacket, design & development by Kazi Awal

Foto: Nathan Hacket for BI

Modern Loneliness

Illustration by Holly Stapleton

Foto: Holly Stapleton for BI

Long-lived Loma Linda

Photos by Stella Kalinina

Tom Farley, in his 70s, rides the waterslide at the Drayson Center in Loma Linda, California. Foto: Stella Kalinina for BI

Great news — social media is falling apart

Illustration by Hugo Herrera

Foto: Hugo Herrera for Insider

What loneliness does to your body and brain

Illustrations by Arantza Pena Popo, design & development by Annie Fu

A busy intersection full of all kinds of people. Foto: Arantza Peño Popo/BI

Taking drugs during sex helped me feel alive — then ruined my life

Illustrations by Derek Abella

Foto: Derek Abella for BI

Call me maybe?

Illustration by Matt Chinworth, design & development by Alyssa Powell, Rebecca Zisser, and Kazi Awal

Foto: Matt Chinworth for BI

The predators' playground

Photos by Mark Abramson, design & development by Kazi Awal, Annie Fu, Skye Gould, Hollis Johnson, Will Varner, and Rebecca Zisser

Former Rosemead High students return to the place where whispers about sexual abuse went unspoken or unheard for decades. Foto: Mark Abramson for BI

TikTok's power of resurrection

Design & Development by Taylor Tyson, Rebecca Zisser, Skye Gould, and Kazi Awal

Foto: Getty Images

The US and China are gearing up for war — and America isn't ready

Illustration by Derek Zheng

Foto: Derek Zheng for BI

Millennials are in their splurge era

Illustration by Nhung Le

Foto: Nhung Le for BI

The true cost of extreme weather

Photos by Rachel Jessen, Miriam Alarcón Avila, Arin Yoon, and Jason Garza, design & development by Annie Fu

Foto: Miriam Alarcón Avila for BI



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