#dear data

[tierracottas]

Dear Data, Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec

[ungrandvide]

Stefanie Posavec

[stinacomics]

Dear Data,

This is why I’ve been so tired this summer.

14,286 miles in a little over three months. Mostly driving.

When I was staying with some friends in Portland, one of them recommended to me the book Dear Data upon hearing about my letterwriting project. I poured through it and was entranced by Stefanie Posavec and Georgia Lupi’s project about paying attention and making handdrawn infographics and writing to each other as new friends. (Here is Brainpicking’s take on Dear Data.)

I was inspired to chart my own movement from this summer.

If it looks like a lot, it’s because it was. And it’s because the original plan was more like this:

...which was still a bit more of travel than one would like but so much more sensible. Fewer breakdowns, less hidey, more grounded...perhaps.

But in that reality, I wouldn’t have participated in Long Beach Zine Fest, nor would I have seen Reno or Crater Lake or Tahoe for the first times this year. Nor would I have been in LA as much, or seen friends there, or gone to Asian American ComiCon, or have made this comic about belonging and inclusion. Nor would I probably have visited Austin?

Who knows. I am here. I am now. This summer happened.

For a plethora of reasons, I feel as if I haven’t really unpacked since February, and it’s looking like I won’t be able to truly unpack for another month or two.

So the question now is what are the symbols of home you carry with you, and how do you ground yourself in your present places even when they are temporary, and how do you make a home a home when it is not your home? <-- perhaps new things to track and #dataviz.

[moma]

Information designer and Dear Data co-author, Giorgia Lupi, talks with us about how anyone can use data visualization techniques to create radically intimate encounters with art and others. Read it here.

[Drawing from Dear Data. Courtesy the artist]

[ungrandvide]

Stefanie Posavec

[moma]

Dear Data

Cool Hunting writes about how Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec started their hand-drawn data visualization postcard project, Dear Data, now part of MoMA's collection.

[Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec. Dear Data. 2015]

[lizamoonart]

Data visualization of the daily life.

Inspired by the Dear Data project - Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec

[tomisgar]

Dear Data

“Dear Data is a year-long, analog data drawing project by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec, two award-winning information designers living on different sides of the Atlantic.”

‘Dear Data’ is a very interesting design that consists of multiple various data collected by two artists, one from England, and the other from America. They collected data from their own lives then came together to create a 300 page book. I really like the way this idea has developed throughout the process and the execution of the designs as well.