About me

¡Hola! I’m Diana

I'm an information designer based in Mexico City. I help newsrooms, institutions and companies turn complex data into visual stories people actually understand.

For 16+ years I've worked between newsrooms, consultancies and product teams: Grupo Expansión, DATALABMX, Afiniti, propelland, and since 2022 as lead information designer for Al Majalla in London, where I design the data graphics for its English and Arabic print and digital editions.

What holds it together is a conviction that a chart is an argument. It has to be accurate before it is beautiful, and clear before it is clever — whether it runs across a magazine spread or inside a dashboard someone opens every morning.

  • 2022-2023

    Elisava Facultat de Disseny i Enginyeria in Barcelona, Spain. ______ With the final project of the master:

    “From Data Visualization to Data Humanism: Exploration and visualization of the 5 basic emotions in 8 areas of well-being”

  • CENTRO diseño | cine | televisión

  • in Universidad del Valle de México

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Recognition & Awards

  • Silver Award, Impressive Individual — Information is Beautiful Awards & Data Visuaization Society 2025

  • Bronze Medal & 12 Awards of Excellence with Almajalla Team — Society Newspaper Designer 46 2026

  • Medal finalist — Society of Publication Designers #61 with “80 years Hiroshima from Ashes to peace” 2026

  • Merit Winner; Digital, Information Graphics Society of Publication Designers #61 with “Drug Trade in Latin America and the Caribbean”, Illustration, Information Graphics, “Trump’s Liberation Day” 2026

  • Long List, 2 projects — World Illustration Awards 2025

  • 6 Awards of Excellence with Almajalla Team — Society Newspaper Designer 45 2025

  • Scholarship of Máster Universitario en Diseño y Comunicación — Expedido por Elisava · sept. de 2022 2022

  • Scholarship Domestika 2018 — Expedido por Domestika.org · ene. de 2019‍ ‍2018

  • 2 Awards of Excellence with Almajalla Team — Society Newspaper Designer 36 2014

Clients & Collaborators

Expertise

  • Data visualization & information design

  • Editorial infographics (print & digital)

  • Dashboards, UI & data products

  • Design systems & chart libraries

  • Art direction

  • English · Spanish · projects in Arabic

    • El Sabor de la Data: Análisis y visualización de datos | Xdata Mexico, 2022

    • Visualização Artesanal | DatavizRio, Brazil 2022.
      Inspirada na icônica imagem-manifesto "América Invertida", do uruguaio Joaquín Torres Garcia, a 18ª edição do DatavizRio trouxe como tema "Visualização de dados fora do eixo: dataviz feito na e pela América Latina". E a mexicana Diana Estefanía Rubio foi nossa convidada especial deste encontro. Ela, que é designer de informação com mais de 10 anos de experiência profissional em projetos editoriais e digitais, conta sobre sua trajetória e compartilha conosco seu método para criação de visualizações de dados.

    • Mi Vida en Datos by Diana Estefanía Rubio | Infovis, Mexico, 2022

    • Visualización y Datos online Conference | iGEM Ollin Synbio, Mexico 2022

    • Interview , winners of the Domêstika Scholarship 2018, Domestika 2021

    • Conference for the specialty of Infographics and data visualization | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile 2020

    • Glamorous Infographics, Information Visualization Design, Designer Books 2024

    • Information Made Beautiful II - Infographic Design, 2019

    • Visual Storytelling Infographic Design In News - Descripción de la publicaciónImage Publishing Edition China 2015

    • Visual Storytelling Infographic Design In News - Descripción de la publicaciónImage Publishing Edition France 2016

    • Domestika Interview 2021, winner of the Domestika Scholarships 2018

    • Interview for Infovis 2018 - International congress of visual communication, 2018

Talks & Books