Business Insider's creative team covered an array of projects this year. We brought our stories to life by incorporating animations, crafting bespoke multimedia experiences for our biggest stories, producing and commissioning hundreds of illustrations, and working with photographers around the globe.
Our visuals captured a wide range of topics, from looking into illegal lockouts in major US cities to Ozempic Scams.
We hired nearly 250 talented freelancers who helped bring our most compelling stories to life, producing over 1,500 pieces of custom art that enhanced our storytelling.
Here are some of our favorite visual creations from 2024.
For God, for country, for rain
Photos by Jett Lara
Why we don't exercise
Illustration by Timo Lenzen
Locked out
Illustration by Andrei Cojocaru, Design and Development by Rebecca Zisser, Isabel Fernandez-Pujol, Randy Yeip, and Annie Fu, Photos by Bridget Bennett, Callaghan O'Hare, Alyssa Pointer, Abel Uribe
The risky allure of WiFi Money
Illustrations by Brandon Celi
Lunar New Year traditions through the lens of three photographers
Photos by Caroline Xia, Ramona Jingru Wang, and Sam Lee
The plight of big sisters
Illustration by Gracia Lam
Albums are too damn long
Illustration by Tyler Le
Want to make money as a pop star? Dream on.
Illustrations by Chris Burnett
The American dream is shrinking
Illustration by Javier Jaén
America is facing a 'fringe friend' crisis
Illustration by Seba Cestaro
'Civilizations rise and fall'
Illustration by Hokyoung Kim
Gen Z's new status symbol
Illustration by Pablo Declan
Joseph Stiglitz on why America's appetite for Trump endures
Photos by Dina Litovsky
The Big Dumb Economic Lie of 2024
Illustration by Alyssa Powell
Scared your partner is cheating? Strangers on the internet are here to help — for a fee
Illustration by Natalie Ammari
Iran will pay for gender-transition surgery, but it comes at a cost — your dignity
Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath
New York City's new Gilded Age
Illustration by Carl Godfrey
The pot farm massacre
Photos by Mike Simmons
From ALICEs to DINKs
Illustrations by Jimmy Simpson
The best albums of 2024
Illustration by Natalie Ammari
A founding father of Utah's VC industry is stepping back as accusations of sexual harassment surface
Illustration by Deena So'Oteh
The death of the nuclear family
Illustration by Mark Harris
The online minefield of Ozempic knock-offs
Illustration by Jenny Chang-Rodriguez
To the manor shorn
Photos by Astrid Landon
Through the roof
Illustration by Alex Castro
The mismeasure of America
Illustration by Chris Gash
The rise of the job-search bots
Illustrations by Hugo Herrera
The world's meanest app
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez
It's gearing up to be a hot travel debt summer for Gen Z and millennials
Illustration by Rebecca Zisser
Hot girls love book clubs
Illustration by Natalia Agatte
What an extra $500 to $1,000 a month did for 8 families
Design and Development by Kim Nguyen, Rebecca Zisser, Isabel Fernandez-Pujol, Photos by Jovelle Tamayo, Tim Evans, Helynn Ospina, Andre Chung, Brittany Greeson, Libby March
'No CCP in USA!'
Illustrations by Matt Harrison Clough
Drake Bell knows life is not a Disney movie
Photos by Ana Topoleanu
AI Power List 2024
Illustration by Karan Singh
Soup to nuts
Illustrations by Tyler Le
The professors turned porn stars
Photos by Simone Lueck
Inside the Billionaire Bunker
Illustration by Saratta Chuengsatiansup
The poisoned chalice of restaurant popularity
Illustration by Valentin Tkach
Gen Z's fading dream
Illustration by Abanti Chowdhury
China's massive stimulus misfire
Illustration by Alyssa Powell
Rob McElhenney is betting on himself
Photos by Sheryl Nields
The hidden costs of traveling while gay
Illustration by Derek Abella
The cursed inheritance
Illustrations by Nate Sweitzer
Steam loops vs. doom loops
Illustration by Sam Green
This Ramadan, queer and transgender Muslims made their own community
Photos by Ramie Ahmed
The fitness fad graveyard
Illustration by Jenny Chang-Rodriguez
Inside Microsoft's struggles with Copilot
Illustration by Chelsea Jia Feng
In celebration of Black History Month
Illustration by Loveis Wise
Why so many Americans hate their jobs
Illustration by Ricardo Tomás
The new rule of homebuying
Illustration by Sebastian König
Behind the data center boom
Illustration by Arif Qazi
MDMA therapy could be legal by summer. Why are so many advocates sounding the alarm?
Illustration by Richard A. Chance
Lunden and Olivia Stallings are TikTok's lesbian power couple. Straight people love them; queer people aren't so sure.
Photos by Kendrick Brinson
Young Chinese are looking for dupes and cheaper substitutes for everything from Hermès to travel
Illustration by Chelsea Jia Feng
The plight of the girlboss
Illustrations by Kiersten Essenpreis
America's absurd war on 'organized retail crime'
Illustration by Tara Anand
The war within Gen Z
Illustration by Tommy Parker
Priced out of America
Illustration by Juanjo Gasull
S'more! S'more!
Illustrations by Liam Eisenberg
My brain on Ozempic
Photos by David Vades Joseph
Elon Musk is fighting wars on a lot of fronts right now
Illustration by Rebecca Zisser
A trainer-heiress power couple created the fitness juggernaut Pvolve. Then came a divorce, an arrest, and Jennifer Aniston.
Illustration by Christian Northeast
The United States of Automobiles
Illustrations by Pete Ryan, Design & Development by Kim Nguyen and Randy Yeip
'Trump is going to win'
Photos by Jordan Vonderhaar
For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege
Illustration by Keith Negley, Photos by Momo Takahashi and Alex Welsh
My breakup with ambition
Illustration by Sophi Gullbrants
The gutting of the Eighth Amendment
Illustration by Matt Rota, Design & Development by Randy Yeip, Kim Nguyen, Dan DeLorenzo, Rebecca Zisser, and Isabel Fernandez-Pujol
