The present investigation – “Visual journalism and artistic journalism: relational approaches between design and journalism” – is based on the role of design and its contribution to a qualified journalism into the communication and dissemination of facts. In the contemporary context, and in times marked by post-truth, journalism faces challenging times. We start by identifying the main factors that contribute to the journalism crisis, and propose, based on the bibliographic review, two current approaches to design, considering the differences of their contribution in the relationship they establish with the communication of facts: visual journalism and artistic journalism. Both start from the need to translate facts through artefacts with visual attributes, in a wide variety of formats, such as video, photography, maps or infographics. They are distinguished by the way in which design is positioned on the “production line” of news or information, and how it draws limits to its practice, in a direct relationship with the ethics of journalistic practice. The practical component of this investigation - the Facts Archive project - starts with theoretical research and aims to compile and categorize projects and bibliographic references around the two identified approaches. As an archive, Facts Archive aims to contribute to the debate around the definition and characterization of these approaches, which we consider to be sufficiently demonstrative of the possibility of telling a version of the facts using visual expression. The evolution of communication design practices in the journalistic context or due to the necessity of translating the facts (demonstrated in initiatives or events, postgraduate training courses and commissioned or self-proposed projects, as well as a growing specialized bibliography, which attest to the relevance of the problem) became evident throughout this investigation. These practices open the field of study of design to journalism, and place design at the centre of discussion of the status quo, social problems, and the reproduction of facts in the world of new media.