De Volkskrant
(Interactive) infographics for a national newspaper
Els Engel is a journalist, designer and developer. She tells her stories in words and images and uses code to research and visualize data. She works for several newspapers, broadcasters and other companies and institutions in the Netherlands and Europe.
Hello!
Welcome to my portfolio! I’m so happy you’re here. At the top, you’ll find some of my favorite projects, and below, you can explore posts where I share more about my work and collaborations. Feel free to look around, —I hope you’ll enjoy what you see! Please get in touch with me at els@zone5.design.
In autumn 2024, I worked on a project at the Volkskrant newspaper about climate finance. Most rich countries profit from climate change, while a lot of poor countries pay the price. I made graphics using vue.js, d3.js and sass. As CMS we used Processwire.
In the same period I made graphics for a story about the goal of the EU to plant 3 billion trees before 2030.
In autumn 2023 I joined a project at the FD (financial newspaper) about the Rabobank, who financed deforestation in Brazil. For this online story I worked on concept development and infographics.
Nominated for a Tegel award (most important journalism award in the Netherlands)
In autumn 2021 we made a television show and online story about exposing, the unwanted sharing of personal data of young girls in chat groups. The story was for Pointer, at public broadcasting company KRO-NCRV. For this online story I worked on concept development and development (vue.js and scss).
Nominated for a Tegel award
In 2021 I made a map for Pointer, about the moving of migrant workers by their employers. This way, the employees can’t register in their place of residence, and don’t get any rights. It’s made with vue.js, d3.js and scss.
Project nominated for a Tegel award
LocalFocus (now press agency ANP) still uses a little tool I made in 2018. It enables you to let your reader search in a big dataset. I developed the concept and was also able to code it for them. De tool works on Angular.js
Also for Pointer, in 2022 I made a tool to let the reader guess how the land in the Netherlands is divided over different uses (spoiler: more than 60% is agricultural land). Made with vue.js and d3.js, the images are separate svg’s.
