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Dear data / Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie Posavec ; foreword by Maria Popova.
Van Pelt Library QA76.9.I52 L87 2016b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lupi, Giorgia, author.
- Posavec, Stefanie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postcards.
- Communication of technical information.
- Graphic methods.
- Communication--Graphic methods.
- Communication.
- Visual communication.
- Communication of technical information--Graphic methods.
- Information visualization.
- Mail art.
- Postcards--Miscellanea.
- Life--Miscellanea.
- Life.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Illustrated works.
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 289 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on cover: a friendship in 52 weeks of postcards
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life"-- Amazon.com.
- "In their year-long visual correspondence project, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian woman living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American woman living in London, capture the inherent poetry of that subjective selectivity. Each week, they jointly selected one aspect of daily life--from sleep to spending habits to mirror use - and depicted their respective experience of it in a hand-drawn visualization on the back of a postcard, then mailed it to the other. Out of these simple diurnal observations emerges the complexity of the human experience--nonlinear, contradictory, and always filtered through the discriminating yet imperfect lens of attention ... Lupi and Posavec reclaim that poetic granularity of the individual from the homogenizing aggregate-grip of Big Data. What emerges is a case for the beauty of small data and its deliberate interpretation, analog visualization, and slow transmission--a celebration of the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details through which we wrest meaning out of the incomprehensible vastness of all possible experience that is life"-- Foreword, page vii.
- Notes:
- Originally published: UK : Particular Books, 2016.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Esther F. Kantrowitz & Lionel Kantrowitz Collection Endowed Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781616895327
- 1616895322
- OCLC:
- 958301068
- Publisher Number:
- 99974331693
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