Facts are Sacred, is an award-winning datablog from the Guardian.
It turns everyday public data into surprising insights about modern life. It shows how data shapes our world and what it can teach us. This collection brings together the blog’s most revealing findings, supported by striking visualisations. Groundbreaking and engaging, it celebrates a journalistic approach that expands our understanding of the news and offers a new way of seeing the world.
For a publication dedicated to the rigorous presentation of facts within newspaper recording, the cover design demanded a visual language of absolute neutrality. We engineered the cover typography to mirror the book’s analytical ethos: stark, objective, and unadorned.
Rather than anchoring the design to a single, isolated statistic or sensational headline—which might bias the reader before opening the book—we chose a purely typographic route. The result is a title treatment that presents itself cleanly and, acting as a clear vessel for the complex information archives contained within.
Simon Rogers is Google’s Data Editor. An award-winning data journalist, writer and speaker. He is co-host of The Data Journalism Podcast with Alberto Cairo and Scott Klein — and author of ‘Facts are Sacred‘, published by Faber & Faber around the world