At the end of the school year, we like to celebrate our graduating seniors with a public exhibition of their work. With the pandemic limiting our ability to that this year, the Herron VCD Department has found another way to celebrate the seniors and gather the Indy design community together. Join us for a free lunchtime talk from the world-renowned designer Giorgia Lupi.

This event is free and open to the public and will take place via Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 28. Preregister online in advance.

ABOUT THE DESIGNER

Giorgia Lupi is an information designer whose work takes a humanistic approach to data. In her practice, she challenges the impersonality of data, designing engaging visual narratives that reconnect numbers to what they stand for: stories, people, ideas.

Lupi was born in Italy and received her master’s degree in architecture at Facoltà di Architettura at Università di Ferrara and her Doctorate in Design at Politecnico di Milano, where she focused on information mapping. In 2011, she co-founded Accurat, an acclaimed data-driven research, design and innovation firm with offices in Milan and New York. She joined Pentagram as a partner in 2019.

At Accurat, Lupi built rich, visually driven experiences around data for clients including IBM, Google, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Starbucks, United Nations, World Health Organization, Triennale Milano Design Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, World Economic Forum, Knight Foundation, LVMH Group, Gucci, Valentino, Target, JPMorgan Chase, Unicredit Group, Columbia University, University of California Berkeley, TED, Corriere della Sera, Scientific American, Popular Science, and Wired.

She has been featured in international media including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, NPR, CBC, BBC, Time magazine, Business Insider, Forbes, National Geographic, Scientific American, Popular Science, Wired, Flash Art, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Monocle, Print, Creative Review, Fast Company, El Pais and Corriere della Sera.

Her TED Talk on her humanistic approach to data has over one million views. She has published two books, “Dear Data” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016), exploring the details of daily life through hand-drawn visual data; and “Observe, Collect, Draw! A Visual Journal” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2018), a guided journal for collecting visual data.