Dear Data

By Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie Posavec,

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From an award-winning project comes an inspiring, collaborative book that makes data artistic, personal - and open to all

Each week for a year, Giorgia and Stefanie sent each other a postcard describing what had happened to them during that week around a particular theme. But they didn't write it,…

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Over a single year, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American in London, exchanged hand-drawn postcards to chart the granular details of their lives using clusters, plots, and graphs. We featured the outpourings of these talented “information designers” in a 2016 Science Museum exhibition on big data and these striking images, in turn, paved the way for their book, Dear Data, which provides a remarkable portrait of these artists. An intimate and human take on big data that invites us all to ponder how to represent our own lives.   

Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec, both brilliant designers, share a passion for visualizing data. Living in New York and London, respectively, they became “pen pals” when they met in 2014: Each week over a year, they would send each other postcards with hand-drawn infographics. Each postcard charts one specific aspect of their daily lives – such as how much time they spent with other people or how often they complained. They created over 100 postcards in total, which are kept today in the design collection of MoMA. The project was wildly popular and inspired many people to create their own…

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