Throughout my career I have been invited as a speaker to some events to talk about my work and my process. Media not related to me have also featured pieces of my work and conducted interviews on their pages. Here are some of those events and highlights.

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Speaker

February 2017, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
A talk with students about the work made at the South China Morning Post graphics team

November 2017 The Society for News Design, London
A talk with media professionals about the work I was doing at the South China Morning Post graphics team. Part of the SND-London summit in 2017.

July 2017, Google APAC – “New Frontiers in Data Journalism”, Singapore
A talk with media professionals about the work I was doing at the South China Morning Post graphics team. Part of the Google News initiative in Asia-Pacific.

February 2018, Hong Kong Design Institute
A talk with students about the work made at the South China Morning Post graphics team

November 2019, Infovis, Mexico
A talk with media professionals and students about my career in graphics. Part of the 2019 edition of INFOVIS visual conference

February 2022. Punto y aparte, Costa Rica
Virtual guest speaker to the closing ceremony of the class #12 of the Costa Rican journalist network “Punto y Aparte”. Joining the event titled “The Power of the images in journalism” By invitation of Yanancy Noguera, Director of Punto y Aparte.

March 2022. Columbia University, New York
Virtual guest speaker to ‘Points unknown’ at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation of Columbia University, by invitation of Juan Francisco Saldarriaga, Senior Data & Design Researcher and Michael Krisch, Deputy Director of the Brown Institute.

April 2022. Lima, Peru
Virtual guest speaker to ‘Otra forma de narrar: Infografía Periodística’ at UPC University (Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas), by invitation of Rossana M. Echeandia Escudero, Lead Director of the school of Journalism and communication at the UPC.

October 2022. Washington DC
Speaker to ‘Design Success’ at the Monaco Hotel, by invitation of Paige Connor, Director of the Society for News Design.

November 2022. New York
Guest speaker to a class of journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY), by invitation of Ronny Rojas, Adjunct lecturer at CUNY – Newmark J-School.

March 2023. Argentina
Virtual guest speaker to the class of Journalism at the Argentine University of Enterprise (UADE) by invitation of Gabriel Podesta, Lecturer at UADE.

June 2023. New York
Guest speaker to the class of visual Journalism at Columbia University by invitation of lecturer Larry Buchanan

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Exhibitions

June 2017. Swing a Cat Art Gallery. Kowloon, Hong Kong
A collective exhibition of infographics named “Infografest” showing diverse print graphics and animations.

November 2018 Wild Mazzini Art Gallery. Turin, Italy
A collective exhibition of data art at WILD MAZZINI. Showcasing the piece titled “The power of your passport”. Originally published by The South China Morning Post.

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Features and interviews

Book citation
Infographics Design (BNN Tokyo) ISBN: 978-4-86100-933-4, 2014.
Book released on August 2014. Post entry link here.

Interview
Newspaper Design [ link ] May 2019
Feature on my career titled “Infographics should be simple, clean and easy to understand. Five questions for award-winning infographic designer Marco Hernandez”

Article
“Mapping the world’s growing plastic mountain, one bottle at a time”
The Tribune [ link ] October 2019.
Features my work in Reuters’ piece “Drowning in Plastic”

Article
“BACKSTORY-Mapping the world’s growing plastic mountain, one bottle at a time”
Reuters [ Link ] October 2019
The making of Reuters’ piece “Drowning in Plastic”

Interview
The Functional Art [ link ] September 2019
Features my work in Reuters’ piece “Drowning in Plastic”

Article
“This sickening graphic shows how much plastic exists on Earth right now”
The Fast Company [ link ] November 2019
Features my work in Reuters’ piece “Drowning in Plastic”

Interview
UK Online Journalism [ link ] December 2020
Features my work in Reuters’ piece “How powerful was the Beirut Blast”

Article
“We are drowning in plastic”
Ahead of the Herd [ link ] March 2021
Features my work in Reuters’ piece “Drowning in Plastic”

Interview
Crunite Magazine [ link ] June 2021
Feature on my career titled “Data Visualization: An Interview With Marco Hernandez”

Interview
Malofiej Awards [ link ] June 2021
Features my work in Reuters’ piece “Shifting smoke” as winner of best digital map in the 29th edition of the awards considered as the Pulitzers of infographics.

Podcast citation
American Scientist Magazine [ Link ] June 2021
Science communication episode. Citation of the Reuters’ piece “Drowning in Plastic”

Interview
The Data Visualization Society. [ link ] April 2023
“A Chat With New York Times Graphics Editor Marco Hernandez”

Magazine article
Nightingale Magazine, DVS. [ link ] June 2023
“Five Reflections on Data Journalism by Marco Hernandez”