Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards

Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards - Paperback

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Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards - Paperback

Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards - Paperback

by Giorgia Lupi , Stefanie Posavec
$42.50
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Book Overview

Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book. For one year, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American in London, mapped the particulars of their daily lives as a series of hand-drawn postcards they exchanged via mail weekly--small portraits as full of emotion as they are data, both mundane and magical. Dear Data reproduces in pinpoint detail the full year's set of cards, front and back, providing a remarkable portrait of two artists connected by their attention to the details of their lives--including complaints, distractions, phone addictions, physical contact, and desires. These details illuminate the lives of two remarkable young women and also inspire us to map our own lives, including specific suggestions on what data to draw and how. A captivating and unique book for designers, artists, correspondents, friends, and lovers everywhere.
ISBN9781616895327
Author Giorgia Lupi , Stefanie Posavec
PublisherPrinceton Architectural Press
GenreEducation
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Giorgia Lupi

Giorgia Lupi is a designer, artist, and partner at the international design firm Pentagram. A two-time TED speaker, she is a leading voice for a more humanistic approach to data. Giorgia is the author of two books, Dear Data, exploring the details of daily life through hand-drawn visual data, and Observe, Collect, Draw! A Visual Journal, a guided journal for collecting visual data. She was the 2022 recipient of the National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Giorgia's work is inspired by the belief that data has the capacity to make us all more human--advancing our intelligence, engagement, and delight. She has been featured in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, T Magazine, NPR, BBC, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. A visual Op Ed that Giorgia Lupi published in The New York Times in 2023 about how she uses data to track her experience with long Covid received widespread acclaim. Phillip Cox is a writer and strategist. Previously an associate partner at Pentagram, he has worked as a branding consultant for a variety of for-profit and non-profit organizations. He is also the author of What a Building Does: The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen, in addition to other articles on architecture and the built environment.

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