East Asia's new family portrait
Picture editor: Catherine Phillips / Co-AD: Ben Shmulevitch / Interactive coding: Olivia Vane

Pocock's Pen Pals: The virtues of an unrepresentative sample
Art: Mel Haasch / Co-AD: Ben Shmulevitch

Why cricket and America are made for each other
Art: Maxime Mouysset

Parenting in Hong Kong
Art: Terri Po

Art direction at The Economist

Year: 2021 - 2023
CD: Stephen Petch

A selection of the art direction works for The Economist. The diversity of the content is reflected by the diversity of visual approaches, design styles and contributors.

Want to know what’s inside a star? Listen closely
Art: Owen Gent

The failure of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
Art: Fede Yankelevich

The disappearance of China’s defence minister
Art: Anthony Gerace

The manufacturing delusion
Art: Timo Lenzen

I, robot scientist
Art: Shira Inbar

“Nightcrawling” is a gritty, accomplished debut novel
Art: Holly Stapleton

Europe’s energy crisis is very far from over
Art: Hokyoung Kim

What is next for fundamental physics?
Art: Daniel Liévano

The looming peak of the Omicron variant
Art: Álvaro Bernis

A gathering of experts attempted to track how consciousness works
Art: Eiko Ojala

A new, faster approach to 3D printing
Art: Mike Haddad

Gene therapies must become miracles of medicine
Art: Daniel Liévano

The rise of optical computing
Art: Mike Haddad

A European consensus on how to handle China is hard to maintain
Art: Klawe Rzeczy

The ticking bomb under Canada’s constitution
Art: Ben Jones

America’s defence department is looking for rogue geoengineers
Art: Cristina Spanò

The idea of “holobionts” represents a paradigm shift in biology
Art: María Medem

Why vaccine passports are causing chaos
Art: Albert Tercero

A Twitter account shows how the CCP stirs up ultra-nationalism
Art: George Wylesol

Can plants hear?
Art: Caroline Péron

Much of Russia’s intellectual elite has fled the country
Art: Daniel Stolle

In “Chain-Gang All-Stars”, prisoners are turned into gladiators
Art: Celina Pereira