Visualizing Impact is a Canada- and Lebanon-based international and multidisciplinary laboratory and network of techies, researchers, designers, storytellers, and communication savvies producing visual tools and products at the intersection of data and behavioral sciences, technology and design, breaking new ground in these fields, yet at the same time mainstreaming marginalized perspectives on critical social issues around the world’. This infographic was published on the occasion of Mandela’s funeral, and aime to serve as a reminder of the fact that the international community that celebrated the South-African leader then had him on terrorist watch lists earlier on, in South Africa but also the United States, where he was even still listed in 2008 Adopting a magazine cover style, VI re-drew the iconic photo of Mandela taken for the cover of Mac Maharaj’s “Mandela: An Authorized Portrait”, and then overlaid the illustration with poignant, controversial moments in Mandela’s history.
