Author: Francis Gagnon

Voilà: has received three awards at the 2026 IIID Award, presented by the International Institute for Information Design at the designforum Vienna during the…

This is the story of a year of resilience. When we deliver ambitious projects while undergoing staff changes. When we clarify our mission while…

Where do good ideas come from? How do they show up — and when? Sometimes it’s obvious, sometimes it takes a long journey… And…

What did 2024 look like at Voilà:? Over the years, those retrospectives allow us to capture the progress that has been made….

To celebrate 10 years of Voilà:, here are 10 things I’ve changed my mind about since I started out as an information designer….

Every year, I write this retrospective for the future: I like to reread them a few years later to see how far we’ve come…

Let’s have a quick look at the thinking process behind the creation of the heat pump charts and calculator, one of our most ambitious…

In addition to our 2022 retrospective, we have prepared this visual overview of the year as a greeting card to wish you a happy…

In dataviz, we often deal with numbered abstractions. But when the Canadian Climate Institute came to us with research about infrastructure, a topic connected…

These retrospectives are like books written one page at a time, once per year. I do it first to follow Voilà:’s progress, then publish…