Week 5 - A week of things we buy
Images by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
Do you remember sending postcards to your friends who live on the other side of the globe? It sure is a fun and thrilling way to get to know your friends even better.
For these two creatives, who only met each other twice in real life, they decided to turn their brief encounters into a long-term “postcard” project after discovering their shared interest in data and drawing.
Information designer Giorgia Lupi from New York and data illustrator Stefanie Posavec from London have been exchanging postcards filled with fascinating facts about their lives for their year-long, analog data drawing project called ‘Dear Data’.
Every week, the duo collect, measure and exchange data about their lives, ranging from mundane topics like a list of things they bought, to funny ones like the amount of complaints they received, revealing the similarities they share in their “parallel lives”.
“We also started this project to show how ‘data’ is not scary, is not necessarily ‘big’, and that you need to know almost nothing about data to start collecting and representing it,” wrote the duo on their project page.
What do you think—would you dedicate your time for a similar project?
Scroll down to view the postcards shared by Lupi and Posavec, or head to their project page for more information.
Week 8 - A week of phone addiction
Image by Giorgia Lupi
Week 8 - A week of phone addiction
Image by Stefanie Posavec
Week 7 - A week of complaints
Image by Giorgia Lupi
Week 7 - A week of complaints
Image by Stefanie Posavec
Week 4 - A week of mirrors
Image by Giorgia Lupi
Week 4 - A week of mirrors
Image by Stefanie Posavec
[via kottke.org, images via Dear Data]