Eyeo 2015 – Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec from Eyeo Festival // INSTINT on Vimeo.
Eyeo 2014 The Shape of My Thoughts
Eyeo 2013 Data I Paint With
Giorgia’s Personal Website
Giorgia Lupi is an Italian information designer and data visualizer. She focuses on humans, and telling their stories— for her, data should be personal and revealing. She values drawing and analog methods, especially in her process. She uses sketches to explore how visual elements can be a linguistic system for compositions and express data with a human touch. She works in digital and print forms, but her process is always rooted in drawing. Lupi studied architecture at Ferrara University but decided she wanted to design informational systems rather than buildings. She co-founded Accurat, a “data-driven research, design and innovation firm based in Milan and New York,” which creates visual narratives and analytical tools for data.
In 2013 she gave a talk at Eyeo called “Data I Paint With” and discussed how she draws inspiration for data visualization from art, architecture, poetry, music, and the natural world. In 2014 she gave another talk called “The Shape of My Thoughts” which was about the role of drawing in her work; she also spoke in 2015 with Stefanie Posavec about their collaborative project, “Dear Data” — This is the video which I decided to watch in full, because I had heard of the project before in another class, and was excited to learn more about it. In this project, the two designers decided to get to know each other by exchanging weekly data visualizations about a certain aspect of their lives through the mail. I absolutely love the concept of this project, and the idea that you can get to know yourself/someone else better through data. Data can be boring, impersonal, and uninteresting, but these two women create and present data in an engaging and intimate way. The artifacts that they produce are beautiful, even without the context of what the visualizations symbolize. I really appreciate how Lupi uses her aesthetic to elevate data to something that can be appreciated on an artistic level, in addition to an informative one. I also admire how detail-orientated she is, while being able to retain a playful attitude in her work.




