Giorgia Lupi is an information designer and a partner at Pentagram in New York. She is coauthor of Dear Data: Observe, Collect, Draw and the author of This Is Me and Only Me. She was named one of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business" in 2018, when she also joined MIT Media Lab as a Director's Fellow. The design magazine Wallpaper* has twice named her one of the 400 most creative people to shape the United States. Lupi is also the recipient of the 2022 National Design Award for Communication Design by the Smithsonian, a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on New Metrics and recently became a fellow of the Royal Society of Art and a National Geographic explorer. She holds a master's degree in architecture, a PhD in design from Politecnico di Milano and an honorary degree in fine arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
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Dare to discover: The talks of TED@BCG 2024
September 20, 2024
We can discover new ideas to design the world we want — if we dare to push through boundaries. In a day of talks and performances, 15 speakers explored precisely how we can break through entrenched obstacles in order to invent and innovate a bold future. The event: TED@BCG: Dare to Discover, the fifteenth event […]
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How to draw your own selfie — using your personal data
September 29, 2017
Designer Giorgia Lupi wants to change the way we think about data. Most of us think of it as rooted in cold facts and numbers, but it’s warm and flawed. Follow her step-by-step instructions to generate a new perspective on the person you know best of all in the world: you.
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Building bridges and playing with data at the Target social space
April 27, 2017
This year at TED, Target is all about building bridges and forging strong connections — literally and figuratively. The Commons — an open, airy minimalist structure — is a truly interactive space that allows TED attendees a moment to recharge away (and above) from the hustle and bustle of the conference. Made from sturdy wood […]
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