Containing their fifty-two cards, along with thoughts and ideas for drawing with data, Dear Data shows that information can be an artistic material for all of us. It will inspire you to notice what's around you, capture hidden patterns and find creativity in even the smallest details of your life.
Stefanie Posavec (Author)
Stefanie Posavec is a designer and artist who uses data as a
creative material. Her work has been exhibited internationally at
major galleries including the Centre Pompidou, the V&A, the
London Design Museum and Somerset House, and is also held in the
permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is
the co-author (with Giorgia Lupi) of Dear Data and the visual
journal Observe, Collect, Draw!
Giorgia Lupi (Author)
Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec are two award-winning and
internationally recognized information designers with a
hand-crafted approach to data visualization. Both expats (Giorgia
an Italian in New York, Stefanie an American in London), they had
only met twice before they began Dear Data. The project was awarded
two Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards and is being exhibited
as part of Somerset House's Big Bang Data exhibition, and at
London's Science Museum.
Charming ... An intimate look at the lives of two designers as told
through their personal data ... Despite the vast amount of
quantification, Dear Data feels almost like an anti-quantified self
project. Lupi and Posavec aren't interested in calories, steps, or
heart rate. Their project explores the more slippery details of
daily life. This human-centric data is the reason why Dear Data
doesn't read as detached self-analysis. There are insights to be
found, even in the categories they chose
*Wired*
Dear Data paints a human portrait with data ... With each graph and
information map, we get a deeper sense of the authors'
personalities. What emerges from this information overload is a
fascinating catalogue of the complexity of daily living. By
tracking such minutiae, Lupi and Posavec, who both work in
information design, reveal the patterns that inform our decisions
and affect our relationships
*Washington Post*
The time and the information encoded in Lupi and Posavec's
postcards is not only revealing, but poignant. As well as choosing
topics around items, such as the contents of their wardrobes or the
number of drinks they'd had that week, the pair also scrutinised
their behaviour ... Both are mind-boggling intricate. The keys to
each chart are minute, cypher-like instructions, peppered with
anecdotes and asides
*Guardian*
Such an information-reach year could inspire others to better
calculate aspects of their lives they never thought to tabulate,
with the goal of seeing patterns and perhaps fine-tuning negative
behavior. And better yet, illustrating our life's data by hand can
allow us to slow down and invigorate our creative selves beyond the
digital
*Vice*
Through the process of examining their worlds in new ways, and
noting emotions, sounds, and thoughts Lupi and Posavec, like the
pre-telecommunication era Decker writes about, reveal a sense of
space and time that we'd never considered. Through their weekly
postcard exchange the two got to know each other, and themselves.
The world around them was data to be collected, to be examined
*Data Matters*
With each pair of postcards presented side by side, readers
immediately experience Lupi and Posavec's different styles and
sensibilities and witness how they influence and complement each
other over the course of this year ... An utterly delightful
collection of color, lines, shapes, and geometries
*Publishers Weekly*
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