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Giorgia Lupi is an Italian information designer and co-founder of data-driven research and design firm Accurat[1][2]. She is a co-author of Dear Data, a collection of hand drawn data visualizations, along with award-winning information designer Stefanie Posavec[3]. Her work is also part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art[4].

Early life and education

Lupi was born in Italy, and graduated from FAF in Ferrara, Italy, where she studied architecture[5]. After graduating in 2006 she worked with different design firms in Italy. In 2011 she began her PHD in design at Milan Politecnico and started Accurat[6][7]. In 2012 she moved to New York City where she lives now[8].

Dear Data

In 2014 Lupi began the Dear Data Project with Stefanie Posavec[9]. Every week for one year Lupi and Posavec exchanged a "data drawing", a hand drawn data visualization that represented a part of their daily life, through the mail[10]. In 2016 these postcards were complied and published in a book called Dear Data[11]. The following year the Museum of Modern Art added the original Dear Data postcards to the Museum's collection[12][13].

Accurat

Lupi's research and design firm, Accurat, combined design and data to create dat visualizations, interfaces, and tools. Among their clients are Google, Microsoft, the New York Times, and the World Health Organization[14]. Accurat won the 2015 Information is Beautiful Gold Award in the Commercial Studio Category and the 2013 Gold in Data Visualization[15].

Awards[16]

  • 2015: Information is Beautiful Awards - Gold Medal and Most Beautiful Project
  • 2013: Information is Beautiful Awards - Gold Medal, category: Data Visualization
  • 2013: Strata Conference - Data Journalism Award
  • 2013: Cannes Festival - Bronze Lion, Direct Advertising
  • 2013: Malofiej - Bronze Medal, Data Visualization Portfolio
  • 2013: Core 77 awards - professional Notable

References

  1. ^ "Interview: Giorgia Lupi on Accurat and Dear Data". Medium. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Giorgia Lupi (Accurat) Interview". Designboom. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Dear Data: The Project". Dear Data. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Seeing through Data: Visiting the Museum with the Eyes of an Information Designer". moma.org. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  5. ^ "Six Questions With Giorgia Lupi". visualizingdata.com. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Six Questions With Giorgia Lupi". visualizingdata.com. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  7. ^ "Giorgia Lupi (Accurat) Interview". Designboom. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  8. ^ "Dear Data". Dear Data. Retrieved 5 February 2018. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  9. ^ "Seeing through Data: Visiting the Museum with the Eyes of an Information Designer". moma.org. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  10. ^ "Dear Data: The Project". Dear Data. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  11. ^ "Seeing through Data: Visiting the Museum with the Eyes of an Information Designer". moma.org. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  12. ^ "Dear Data has been Acquired by the MoMA". Medium. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  13. ^ "Seeing through Data: Visiting the Museum with the Eyes of an Information Designer". moma.org. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  14. ^ "Accurat About". Accurat.it. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  15. ^ "Accurat About". Accurat.it. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  16. ^ "Giorgia Lupi Press". GiorgiaLupi.com. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
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