The best illustrations and photos from Business Insider in 2023

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animated type treatment for 'The Best of Visuals 2023' — Toby Triumph for BI

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

Animation of a person wading through student debt — Hunter French for BI

Let them live

Illustrations by Deena So'Oteh

An illustration of a clock, pregnant women, hands, money, and ultrasounds — Deena So'Oteh for BI

What's for breakfast in 2050?

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

A digital collage of colorful breakfast foods, including avocado toast, orange juice, a sunnyside up egg and bacon. — Shira Inbar for BI

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

Illustration by Rebecca Zisser

a photo collage featuring the image of Yevgeny Prigozhin with background elements from an US voting application and the colors of the Mexican flag — 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.
Jackie Molloy for BI

AI 100

Illustration by Sua Balac

A floating universe of tech and AI — Sua Balac for BI

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

Illustration by Tyler Le

A business man looking upset with a graduation cap on and five landline phones surrounding him — Tyler Le/BI

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

Illustration by Nolan Pelletier

Solar power turning into cash flow. — Nolan Pelletier for BI

Group chats can ruin your life

Illustration by Min Heo

Digital illustration of people all chatting in a group chat — Min Heo for BI

The world in one borough

Photos by Daniel Terna

Make America build again

Illustrations by Matt Harrison Clough

A red iron beam filling in the American flag — Matt Harrison Clough for BI

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

Illustration by Robyn Phelps

The head of an orca is shown protruding from the center of a toilet paper roll, where it appears stuck. — Robyn Phelps/BI

Big Tech made America lonely

Illustration by Dadu Shin

In a black glitchy abyss of floating glowing boxes full of lonely people on some form of technological device, two boxes float near each other towards connection. — Dadu Shin for BI

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

Illustration by Cha Pornea

Illustration part of the Transforming Business Series: People surrounded by a variety of Generative AI examples. Multiple datasets, images, audio and training artificial intelligence programs — 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
Little Shao for BI

Vibe check

Design & development by Alyssa Powell and Taylor Tyson

Photo collage capturing the diverse activities of Gen Z, featuring images of individuals engaged in conversations, texting on mobile devices, expressing thoughts through writing, participating in protests, and advocating for various causes (including an individual wearing a shirt with a message related to sex) — 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

illustration of Sam Altman in front of a futuristic city. — Richard A. Chance for BI

Grimes' year from hell

Illustration by Jenny Chang-Rodriguez

Photo illustration collage of Elon Musk and Grimes. — Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BI

She spent her inheritance on TikTok Livestreamers

Illustrations by Nick Little

A face with watering, strained eyes is obscured by floating emojis of happy faces, dollar bills, disco balls, roses, and diamonds. — Nick Little for BI

500 chatbots read the news and discussed it on social media

Illustration by Ian Grandjean

A scientist experiments with AI. — 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

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

Photos by Iva Sidash

Woman standing in front of ruins in Ukraine. — Iva Sidash for BI

Millennial and Gen Z parents are struggling

Illustration by Eleanor Davis

Illustration of stranded parents. — Eleanor Davis for BI

Inside the wild, drug-fueled world of Big Talk

Illustrations by Christian Northeast

A large mouth with legs on a stage giving a speech. — 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.
Christian Northeast for BI

How I broke the last taboo

Illustrations by Tiago Majuelos

Someone proudly sharing their salary with other figures looking on in distress — Tiago Majuelos for BI

The celebrity divorce playbook

Illustrations by Alexander Wells

Britney Spears , Sam Asghari, Sofia Vergara,Joe Manganiello, Joe Jonas, Sophie Turner — 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

Sophie Nélisse seated at a vanity — 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

A women looks overwhelmed as she tries to concentrate on all the fitness metrics buzzing and moving all around her. — Arantza Pena Popo for BI

The case of the Lego Bandit

Illustrations by Mojo Wang

Lego youtuber stands among the giant falling lego breaks and negative emojis. — 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

Diptych of Galey Alix wearing a jumpsuit by Nadine Merabi. On the left she is seated holding a hammer, and on the right she's doing a headstand. — Sonya Revell for BI

The great Zelle pool scam

Illustrations by Madison Ketcham

An illustration of a pool with floaties in the shape of a frowning face — Madison Ketcham for BI

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

Photos by Sylvia Jarrus

Victim William Kelly standing on a porch. — Sylvia Jarrus for BI

We watched 1,000 TikToks in one sitting

Illustration by Chelsea Feng

A mandala effect of items that were advertised to the authors. — Chelsea Jia Feng for BI

Climate Action 30

Illustration by Máximo Tuja

Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States

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

An illustration depicting prison guards using two prison dogs to attack an prisoner who lays restrained and face-down on the ground. One of the dogs is biting the prisoner's left arm. — Matt Rota for BI

Iceland only has one rabbi

Photos by Anna Gorin, Heiða Helgadóttir, and Rainy Siagian

Man blowing on a horn. — Heiða Helgadóttir for BI

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

Illustration by Ricardo Tomás

Photo illustration of a smiley face and a laptop. — Ricardo Tomás for BI

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

Illustration by Xavier Lalanne-Tauzia

A variety of LinkedIn case studies. — Xavier Lalanne-Tauzia for BI

Black Ensemble

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

Collage of photos — Mamadi Doumbouya for BI

Forever Young

Illustration by Allie Sullberg

Illustration of flowers blooming and people dancing and meditating. — 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.
Tim Evans for BI

Better Holidays

Illustration by Sol Cotti

An illustration of people celebrating holidays — Sol Cotti for BI

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

Illustration by Tara Anand

A girl who has just fainted surrounded by other smaller girls — Tara Anand for BI

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

Photos by Amy Lombard

America is stuck in a greased-pig economy

Illustration by Liam Eisenberg

Bankers wrestling a piggy bank — Liam Eisenberg for BI

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

Illustrations by Josh Cochran

A man on the left writes ideas on post-it notes, while a woman on the right types on her computer. — Josh Cochran for BI

Ayesha Curry finds her balance

Photos by Lia Clay Miller

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

Illustration by Anna Kim

An illustration of a person surrounded by darkness and trapped in a bubble, looking at a screen where a wireframe face emerges, staring back. — 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

Illustration of the King's coronation. — Nathan Hacket for BI

Modern Loneliness

Illustration by Holly Stapleton

A woman looks longingly out of a car window. She rests her head on her folded arms, her face obscured from the viewer. Outside, people walk by under the bright glow of city lights. — 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.
Stella Kalinina for BI

Great news — social media is falling apart

Illustration by Hugo Herrera

People walking away from phones showing various social media logos — Hugo Herrera for Insider

What loneliness does to your body and brain

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

A busy urban intersection with people of all walks of life. — A busy intersection full of all kinds of people.
Arantza Peño Popo/BI

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

Illustrations by Derek Abella

An illustration of the back of a person's head, in four different steps as they go from lying down to sitting up. Visible behind their head is a butt standing ahead of them. — Derek Abella for BI

Call me maybe?

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

The predators' playground

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

A photo of a group of women standing in front of Rosemead High School facing away from the camera — Former Rosemead High students return to the place where whispers about sexual abuse went unspoken or unheard for decades.
Mark Abramson for BI

TikTok's power of resurrection

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

Photo collage of singers. — Getty Images

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

Illustration by Derek Zheng

A boxing match between China and the US. — Derek Zheng for BI

Millennials are in their splurge era

Illustration by Nhung Le

Illustration of a woman relaxing and spluring while sitting on a chair. — 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

Barb Grant holding image of building flooding. — Miriam Alarcón Avila for BI

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The best illustrations and photos from Business Insider in 2023