HuffPost Highline – FML

  • Pablo Espinosa

Huffington Post Highline's epic article explaining how millennials ended up the poorest generation since The Great Depression. I worked as illustrator, animator and design lead from New Zealand under the art direction of the HuffPost team in New York. Together we crafted the story around the concept of a rigged, unwinnable game to upset the darkness of its content with a bright visual direction that's both charming and unsettling. This project became Huffington Post's most read story of 2017 despite it coming out in December and it won quite a few awards including a Webby for Best Individual Editorial Experience, three SPD awards including Best Editorial Experience, Best Animated Content and Best Custom Feature Design. It claimed site of the day for the FWA, Awwwards and CSS Design Awards and it won Silver in the Large Scale Website category in the New Zealand Best Design Awards.