A picture may be worth a thousand words but sometimes it’s maddeningly difficult to find the right photo. Especially under deadline. Or if the subject is reclusive or uncooperative. Or if the story is about an idea rather than a person or place.
That’s where Forbes’ talented team of artists and photo illustrators steps up. Whether it’s a highway lined with surgical mask hills to accompany a story about the future of the pandemic, or a neon Miami Vice-inspired fingerprint to illustrate a piece on Florida’s identity theft gangs, these images quickly and impactfully encapsulate the journalism – and hopefully ensnare the reader. These amazing illustrations are all the work a small team of designers, led by Alicia Hallett-Chan, Charles Brucaliere and Fernando Capeto.
Those of us who write the words here at Forbes are fortunate to have such formidable visual support.
— The Editors
JAN – MAR
ILLUSTRATION BY Nick Sheeran FOR FORBES; Photo by Getty Images
Covid Year Three Will Be Better, Experts Agree, Unless Rich Countries Ignore The Pandemic Elsewhere
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How Much Money Are At-Home Covid-19 Tests Bringing In?
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The French Duck Breeder That’s Helping To Vanquish Omicron
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Welcome To The Vice Age: How Sex, Drugs And Gambling Help Americans Cope With Covid
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ILLUSTRATION BY Christian Zelaya for FORBES; Photo by GETTY IMAGES
Amazon’s Devoted Cloud Customers Face A Decision After Outages: Leave, Stay Or Diversify?
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ILLUSTRATION BY Christian Zelaya for FORBES; photos by GETTY IMAGES
Americans’ Response To Inflation Is Not What Many Expected
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ILLUSTRATION BY Fernando Capeto FOR FORBES; PETER DAZELEY/ARTPARTNER-IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES
How Bad Inflation Might Get, According To The Companies That Will Raise Prices
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ILLUSTRATION BY Nick Sheeran FOR FORBES
A Guide To The Private Jets And Helicopters Owned By Sanctioned Russian Billionaires
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ILLUSTRATION BY Stephanie Jones FOR FORBES
Miami Street Gangs See No Hope In Dope. They’ve Switched To Identity Fraud Fueled By Russian Hackers
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ILLUSTRATION BY Philip Smith FOR FORBES
Cargill Dodges Russian Missiles But Vows To Keep Feeding Both Sides Of The Ukraine War
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ILLUSTRATION BY Nick Sheeran FOR FORBES
The Best Global Crypto Exchanges
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ILLUSTRATION BY Christian Zelaya for FORBES; Photo by GETTY IMAGES
Did The Son Of The World’s Third-Richest Person Trade NFTs With Inside Information
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ILLUSTRATION BY Stephanie Jones FOR FORBES; photo by BRANDON BELL/GETTY IMAGES
Trump’s Net Worth Has Jumped An Estimated $600 Million Since He Left Office
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APR – JUN
ILLUSTRATION BY Stephanie Jones FOR FORBEs
Forbes’s Billionaire List 2022
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ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE JONES FOR FORBES; PHOTO BYKylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi, Kevin De Bruyne; Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo; Erling Haland, Robert Lewandowsk. SYLVAIN LEFEVRE/JONATHAN MOSCROP/MARC ATKINS/TNANI BADREDDINE/DEFODI IMAGES/MATTHEW ASHTON/AMA/MATTHIAS HANGST/SAMPICS/CORBIS/PAUL TAYLOR/GETTY IMAGES
The World’s Most Valuable Soccer Teams 2022: Real Madrid, Worth $5.1 Billion, Is Back On Top
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ILLUSTRATION BY ULI KNÖRZER for forbes
From TikToker Khaby Lame To Fashion’s Future: Meet The Forbes Under 30 Europe Members Transforming Art & Culture
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ILLUSTRATION BY Christian Zelaya FOR FORBES
The Cannabis 42.0
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ILLUSTRATION BY PING ZHU for forbes
America’s Best Employers For Diversity
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ILLUSTRATION BY Nick Sheeran for FORBES
The Most Valuable Esports Companies 2022
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ILLUSTRATION BY NICOLAS ORTEGA FOR FORBES
America’s Best Credit Unions In Each State
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ILLUSTRATION BY Nick Sheeran FOR FORBES
The AI 50
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ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE JONES FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY DAVID RYDER/GETTY IMAGES
The Smart Traveler’s Survival Playbook For Summer Flight Cancellations
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ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE JONES FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY MARK RALSTON/AFP VIA GETTY
Carvana’s ‘Chaotic’ Zoom Firing Caps Company’s Struggles Amid Market Downturn
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ILLUSTRATION BY PHILIP SMITH FOR FORBES
Revolving-Door Riches: How Obama-Biden Officials Cashed In During The Trump Years
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ILLUSTRATION BY PHILIP SMITH FOR FORBES; PHOTOS BY DON EMMERT/GETTY IMAGES, JULIO CORTEZ/AP, OISIN KENIRY/GETTY IMAGES, DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/GETTY IMAGES
Trump, Saudis Join Forces To Stick It To The PGA
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ILLUSTRATION BY ADRIAN BRANDON for forbes
We Asked Black Americans: How Safe Do You Feel Two Years After George Floyd’s Murder? Here Are Their Answers
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ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE JONES FOR FORBES; PHOTOS BY ARTURBO/ GETTY
Abortion By The Numbers
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ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE JONES FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY VCG WILSON/CORBIS/ GETTY IMAGES
How Breastfeeding Mothers Are Being Sexualized On Social Media
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ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE JONES FOR FORBES
How TikTok Live Became ‘A Strip Club Filled With 15-Year-Olds’
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ILLUSTRATION BY Nick Sheeran FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY MIKHAIL SVETLOV/GETTY IMAGES, CRAIG MERCER/ACTIONPLUS/NEWSCOM, Anadolu Agency/GETTY IMAGES
Russia: The Oligarch Files
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ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTIAN ZELAYA FOR FORBES; PHOTOS BY GREG BAJOR/GETTY IMAGES; JOSE A. BERNAT BACETE/GETTY IMAGES
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Government Ordered Travel Companies To Spy On Russian Hacker For Years And Report His Whereabouts Every Week
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JUL – SEP
Illustration by Wesley Bedrosian for Forbes
The Forbes 400
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ILLUSTRATION BY FERNANDO CAPETO FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY MARIE LAFAUCI/GETTY IMAGES
Elon Musk Isn’t The Only Billionaire With 9-Plus Kids. Meet The U.S.’ Richest People With The Most Children
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ILLUSTRATION BY LINCOLN AGNEW FOR FORBES
Exclusive Recording, Documents Bolster Trump Fraud Lawsuit
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ILLUSTRATION BY WESLEY BEDROSIAN FOR FORBES
Donald Trump’s Great Escape: How The Former President Solved His Debt Crisis
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ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTIAN ZELAYA FOR FORBES; PHOTOS BY ZF L/GETTY IMAGES
LinkedIn Profiles Indicate 300 Current TikTok And ByteDance Employees Used To Work For Chinese State Media—And Some Still Do
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Can AI Predict If Your House Is Going To Burn To The Ground?
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ILLUSTRATION BY PHILIP SMITH FOR FORBES
Sexual Predators Are Grooming Young Teens On Wattpad, A Storytelling App Beloved By Gen Z
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ILLUSTRATION BY PHILIP SMITH FOR FORBES
From Camping To Cheese Pizza, ‘Algospeak’ Is Taking Over Social Media
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ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE JONES FOR FORBES; PHOTOS BY GETTY IMAGES
Tripledot Simplifies Game Development: No Characters, No Quests, Nothing More Complicated Than Wordle
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ILLUSTRATION BY GRACELYNN WAN FOR FORBES
More Than Half Of All Bitcoin Trades Are Fake
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ILLUSTRATION BY GRACELYNN WAN FOR FORBES
Crypto Winter Knocks 3 People Off Forbes 400 List Of Richest Americans
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ILLUSTRATION BY MATIJA MEDVED FOR FORBES
Hey Tech Lady: How A Great Mentor Changed My Career — And My Life
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ILLUSTRATION BY MATIJA MEDVED FOR FORBES
How To Beat Impostor Syndrome
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ILLUSTRATION BY MATIJA MEDVED FOR FORBES
Hey Tech Lady: Girl, Interrupted — And What You Can Do About It
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Hey Tech Lady: Girl On Girl Crime In The Workplace
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ILLUSTRATION BY JOSE BERRIO FOR FORBES
The Cloud 100
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ILLUSTRATION BY GRACELYNN WAN FOR FORBES
Canada’s Best Employers For Diversity
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Illustration by Boldtron FOR FORBES
Forbes America’s Top Colleges
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OCT – DEC
ILLUSTRATION BY MICHELLE ROHN FOR FORBES
The Highest-Paid Dead Celebrities Of 2022—A Writer Earns Half-A-Billion From The Great Beyond
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Rupert Murdoch 2.0: How Twitter Gives Elon Musk The Power To Shape Public Opinion
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ILLUSTRATION BY GRACELYNN WAN FOR FORBES; PHOTOS BY RODOLFO GLCKSBERG/EYEEMBY/GETTY IMAGES; IMRAN KADIR/GETTY IMAGES
Elon Musk’s Twitter Buyout Was A Billion Dollar Windfall For These 13 Hedge Funds
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ILLUSTRATION BY Fernando Capeto FOR FORBES; PHOTOS BY TAYLOR HILL/GETTY IMAGES; CONSTANZA HEVIA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
‘Elon Is Watching’: Twitter Employees Panic On Musk’s First Day As Owner
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ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE JONES FOR FORBES; PHOTOS BY JOHN SHEARER/GETTY IMAGES; JOHN M LUND/GETTY IMAGES
Elon Musk Has Twitter Bills To Pay, But Charging For A Blue Checkmark Won’t Be Enough
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ILLUSTRATION BY FERNANDO CAPETO FOR FORBES; PHOTOS BY WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES; DAVID RAMOS/GETTY IMAGES
Qatar’s Backing Of Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal Raises Questions Ahead Of The FIFA World Cup
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Illustration by Fernando Capeto for Forbes; Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images
Twitter Engineer Fired On Twitter Calls Musk’s Team ‘A Bunch Of Cowards’
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For Sex Traffickers, Jack Dorsey’s Cash App Is ‘King’
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ILLUSTRATION BY FERNANDO CAPETO FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY PRESLEY ANN/GETTY IMAGES
The Untold Story Behind Emax, The Cryptocurrency Kim Kardashian Got Busted For Hyping
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ILLUSTRATION BY GRACELYNN WAN FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY GUERIN BLASK FOR FORBES
The Collapse Of FTX
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ILLUSTRATION BY GRACELYNN WAN FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY GUERIN BLASK FOR FORBES
Exclusive: These FTX Investors Stand To Lose The Most From The Crypto Exchange’s Implosion
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ILLUSTRATION BY GRACELYNN WAN FOR FORBES; PHOTOS BY SAUL LOEB/GETTY IMAGES
Billions Of FTX Assets In Limbo As Exchange Follows Voyager Into Bankruptcy
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ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE JONES FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY VIRGILE SIMON BERTRAND FOR FORBES
Stripe, Deloitte, Sullivan & Cromwell Are Among 53 FTX Advisors, Vendors And Bankers Weathering Exchange’s Collapse
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ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE JONES FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY LAM YIK/BLOOMBERG
Sam Bankman-Fried And Three FTX Executives Received $4.1 Billion Of Loans From Alameda Research: Where Did The Money Come From And Where Did It Go?
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ILLUSTRATION BY GRACELYNN WAN FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY SAUL LOEB/GETTY IMAGES
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Donations To Effective Altruism Nonprofits Tied To An Oxford Professor Are At Risk Of Being Clawed Back
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ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE JONES FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY LAM YIK/BLOOMBERG
Alameda And FTX May Have Taken Advantage Of Customers From The Start
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The Most Powerful Sports Agents 2022: Scott Boras Is In A League Of His Own
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The Most Valuable Sports Agencies 2022: The Rich Get Richer Amid A Wave Of Consolidation
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In His First Interview, Thrasio’s New CEO Puts Company Turmoil In The Rear-View Mirror
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ILLUSTRATION BY GRACELYNN WAN FOR FORBES; PHOTO BY MICHELE TANTUSSI/AP
Meet The World’s Most Powerful Woman: Ursula Von Der Leyen, President Of The European Commission
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ILLUSTRATION BY PAOLA SALIBY FOR FORBES
The World’s Top Female-Friendly Companies
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Introducing The Forbes Future Of Work 50
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ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE JONES FOR FORBES
The Heiresses, The Oilmen, And The $200 Million Bonus Battle
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Concept BY Fernando Capeto; Illustration by Gracelynn Wan for Forbes
A Cryptocurrency Named After The Fictional Money In Star Trek Is ‘Worthless’ And ‘A Scam,’ New Lawsuit Alleges
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The Looming $62 Billion Crypto Contagion
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These TikTok Accounts Are Hiding Child Sexual Abuse Material In Plain Sight
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