Best of CH 2014: Data Visualization

An interactive data graphic explores how our content connected last year across categories and keywords

With 2014 complete, we can now take a look back at the year from a quantified point of view. This interactive data map visualizes CH’s most commonly used keywords, which are represented as bubbles within a ring of our main content categories. Each element’s size directly reflects the number of stories associated with it, and moving your cursor throughout the graphic will reveal connections between …

Best of CH 2014: Most Popular

From a Moog Music factory tour to MINI's Superleggera Vision and Van Cleef & Arpels' Midnight Planétarium, the articles you read most this year

Sometimes it’s easy to predict what will be a hit on the internet (kitten GIFs never fail) and, while we like to think all our CH articles are equally enjoyed, some get picked up and spewed all over the web—much to our delight. (This year, some Tweets from the likes of Chris Hadfield and Neil DeGrasse Tyson gave us a healthy boost.) From watches adorned …

Best of CH 2014: Interviews

From a cyborg activist to a surfboard shaper to a musician, comedian, fashion designer and more, our look back at the people we spoke with this year

This year we spoke with an incredible pool of talented individuals, and narrowing it down to a select few feels a little unfair. While an almost equally interchangeable list of interviews would include Sharon Jones, Erik Spiekermann, Ingo Maurer, Iggy Pop, Iris van Herpen, Ai Weiwei, Peanut Butter Wolf and so many outstanding chefs, designers, artists and DJs, below are 10 people who put such …