What Happens When Data-Viz Designers Become Penpals

When two designers switched continents, they embarked on a yearlong project to make data feel human.

Two years ago, designers Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi met at a design festival in Minneapolis, where they were both giving talks on drawing and sketching with data. They kept in touch online after connecting over their shared artistic, analog approach to visualizing numbers. Because they'd switched continents—Lupi moved to Brooklyn to start the New York office of her company Accurat, Posavec moved to London for studies and love—they decided to embark on a yearlong, hand-drawn pen pal project, called Dear Data, in which they send each other regular postcards that visualize a week's worth of personal data.
We wanted to prove that data can be totally human.

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