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Two Graphic Designer Pen Pals Communicate Using Only Infographics, Eventually Become Good Friends
For one year, two award-winning information designers, Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec, living on different sides of the Atlantic, sent each other postcards for a project titled ‘Dear Data’. But they weren’t your usual postcards, they were hand-drawn infographic postcards.
“Each week, and for a year, we collected and measured a particular type of data about our lives, used this data to make a drawing on a postcard-sized sheet of paper, and then dropped the postcard in an English “postbox” (Stefanie) or an American “mailbox” (Giorgia),” their website reads. “Eventually, the postcard arrived at the other person’s address with all the scuff marks of its journey over the ocean: a type of “slow data” transmission.” The whole project resulted to 52 weeks of different themed postcards, and Giorgia and Stefanie getting to know each other so well that they became great friends, even though they had only met twice.
The year-long project has been published into a beautiful 300-page book and is available on Amazon.
More info: Amazon | dear-data.com | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram (h/t: designyoutrust)
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Naima Ivansdóttir 9 years ago
this is fun, clever, interesting, amazing and quirky at the same time. on the other side i can't help but wonder how much spare time these people have the privilege of enjoying. :)
Jonathan Levich 9 years ago
Thought the same thing. Very creative and you can see the data driven portion as well, but definitely time consuming.
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Violaine LB 9 years ago
This is so beautiful. Makes me feel like doing the same thing in my diary.
Cassie 9 years ago
Seems like a fun project to me. I would have enjoyed school more had it included interesting and challenging projects such as this.
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Lyone Fein 9 years ago
So cool. A great way to meditate on a concrete level. Bring focus to everyday things.
chachkimooch 9 years ago
I'm just going to assume these are great, because I lack the patience to decipher them.
Naima Ivansdóttir 9 years ago
this is fun, clever, interesting, amazing and quirky at the same time. on the other side i can't help but wonder how much spare time these people have the privilege of enjoying. :)
Jonathan Levich 9 years ago
Thought the same thing. Very creative and you can see the data driven portion as well, but definitely time consuming.
Load More Replies... Violaine LB 9 years ago
This is so beautiful. Makes me feel like doing the same thing in my diary.
Cassie 9 years ago
Seems like a fun project to me. I would have enjoyed school more had it included interesting and challenging projects such as this.
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 9 years ago
So cool. A great way to meditate on a concrete level. Bring focus to everyday things.
chachkimooch 9 years ago
I'm just going to assume these are great, because I lack the patience to decipher them.
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