About

Giorgia grew up in Modena, Italy. After receiving her master’s degree in Architecture, she earned her PhD in Design at Politecnico di Milano. In 2011, she co-founded Accurat, an internationally acclaimed data-driven design firm with offices in Milan and New York, before joining Pentagram in 2019.

2013 PhD, Architecture, Milan Politecnico
2006 BA/MA Architecture, Facoltà di Architettura at Università di Ferrara

2026

upcoming:
MIT Future Fest, Oct 1st, Boston, MA

previous:
Gallerie d’Italia - Illustri,V Vicenza, IT
IEEE 2026 Laureate Forum, New York, NY
Parsons, The New School, New York, NY, New York, NY (video)
Salotto, New York, NY

2025

Speak Data, New York, NY
Data-Art Symposium, Boston, MA
NatGeo Storytelling Summit, Washington, D.C.

2024

TED, New York, NY
Paradigms, Rome, Italy
DRS2024, Boston, MA
Educator Event—Visible Thinking and the Scientific Process, New York, NY

2022

Giorgia Lupi: Data Humanism, Philadelphia, PA
We Love Graphic Design Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
EYEO Festival, Minneapolis
Fortune 50, New York, NY
Design March, Reykjavik, Iceland
Design Subtropic, Miami, FL
Demystifying Data Visualization, virtual

2021

What Design Can Do, Mexico City, Mexico
Adobe Max, virtual
Global Design Forum, virtual
Giorgia Lupi: The Human Side of Data, virtual
The Human Side of Data, virtual
Evening In: Humanizing Data, virtual

2020

OFFF, virtual
AIGA Design Conference, virtual
ITHRA, virtual
IXDA - Interaction 20, Milan, Italy
The Data We Don’t See with Giorgia Lupi, New York, NY
Human by Design, Boston, MA
Information Design for Sense Making, New York, NY

2019

Creative Mornings, New York, NY
Typographic, New York, NY
Adobe 99U, New York, NY

2018

Data Storytelling NYC, New York, NY
Tableau Conference, New Orleans, LA
Google Talks, Google Headquarters, New York, NY
EYEO Festival, Minneapolis, MN
HOW Design Live, Boston, MA
Toronto DigiFest, Toronto, Canada
Wharton People Analytics, Philadelphia, PA
Penny Stamps Speakers Series, Ann Arbor, MI

2017

STIR - The Experience Lab, San Francisco, CA
Your Closet, in Data, New York, NY
VizUM Symposium, University of Miami, Miami
Hello Data! How to Design Visualizations for Humans, New York, NY
IEEE VIS Conference, Phoenix, AZ
Meet the Media Guru, Milan, Italy
The Art of Data Visualization, New York, NY
TED, New York, NY
Design Indaba, Cape Town, South Africa
UX+DATA Meetup, New York, NY
The Glass Room NYC, New York, NY
School for Poetic Computation Salon, New York, NY

2016

Dear Data, New York, NY
Giorgia Lupi at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
SciVizNYC, New York, NY
MoMA R&D 18th Salon: Informed Future, New York, NY
Visualized, New York, NY
Digital Design Days and Awards, Milan, Italy
Dear Data: Giorgia Lupi and Debbie Millman, New York, NY
Dear Data: Book Launch with Maria Popova, New York, NY
PSFK Conference, New York, NY
It Takes Two, New York, NY
Giorgia Lupi Lecture at Products of Design, New York, NY

2015

Pop Tech, Camden, MN
EYEO Festival, Minneapolis, MN

2014

La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
EYEO Festival, Minneapolis, MN
Designers and Geeks, New York, NY
WIRED Next Fest, Milan, Italy
Google @ King’s Cross, London, UK
Resonate Festival, Belgrade, UK
Tapestry Conference, Annapolis, MD
Visualized, New York, NY

2013

Strata Conference, New York, NY
The Conference, Malmoö
NYPL Labs Talk, New York Public Library, New York
EYEO Festival, Minneapolis, MN

2026
”Arts Unscripted,” podcast and video interview
”Wake up excited,” podcast and video interview
”Friends of OVA” - Open Visualization Academy,” podcast and video interview
”Humanizing Data through Design,” AIGA, podcast and video interview

2025
“How Giorgia Lupi Visualizes Life Through Data,” MoMA (documentary)

2024
”What Long COVID Taught Me About Life (and Data),” TED Talk
“Information Designer Giorgia Lupi and Her Search for Love in the Time of COVID,” Full Bleed, Season 1, Episode 2 (documentary)
“Design As Care,” Design Observer podcast (guest)
“Bonus Episode: Design As Recovery with Pentagram’s Giorgia Lupi,” Design Observer podcast (interview)
“036—Giorgia Lupi,” Fail. Hard. with Will Hall podcast (interview)
“Episode #264: Giorgia Lupi,” PolicyViz podcast
“This New York Times Article Used Data Visualisation to Show a Human Feeling,” D&AD
”Lella Vignelli and Giorgia Lupi: Designing for Humanity,” Women Designers You Should Know podcast
”Design, Humanism, and Connections with Giorgia Lupi,” Data + Love podcast
”Unveiling Human Stories Through Data with Giorgia Lupi,” MINDED Podcast
”Data with Heart: Giorgia Lupi’s Journey from Visualization to Human Connection,” Jon Schwabish

2023
”Pentagram 50 at the 2023 AIGA Design Conference,” AIGA Design Podcast
”Giorgia Lupi: Information Designer and Partner at Pentagram,” Design Tangents Podcast

2021
”Giorgia Lupi,” In Your Shoes Podcast
”Bringing Data to Life with Information Designer Giorgia Lupi,” Clever podcast
”Going Streaking,” Unthinkable with Jay Acunzo

2020
”Designing with Data | Giorgia Lupi,” Design Lab with Bon Ku

2017
”How we can find ourselves in Data,” TED Talk
”Giorgia Lupi,” The Design of Business | The Business of Design

2016
”Giorgia Lupi,” Design Matters with Debbie Millman
”Giorgia Lupi - Information Designer,” School of Visual Arts
”Revealing Envy, Laughter, and Curiosity Through Data,” Science Friday
”What’s the Point: 52 Weeks of Data,” What’s the Point

2015
”Dear Data Wrap-Up,” PolicyViz
”’Dear Data’ with Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec,” Data Stories podcast
”Dear Data,” PolicyViz

2014
”High Density Infographics and Data Drawing w/ Giorgia Lupi,” Data Stories podcast

Books

Speak Data: Artists, Scientists, Thinkers, and Dreamers on How We Live Our Lives in Numbers. With Phillip Cox. Chronicle Books / Princeton Architectural Press, 2025.

This is Me and Only Me. With Madeleine Garner. Corraini Edizioni, 2024

Observe, Collect, Draw! A Visual Journal. With Stefanie Posavec. Princeton Architectural Press, 2018

Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Postcards. With Stefanie Posavec. Princeton Architectural Press (North America) / Penguin Press (UK), 2016

Features in Periodicals and Magazines

“1,374 Days – My Life With Long COVID,” The New York Times, 2024

”Data Humanism: The Revolution will be Visualized,” PRINT Magazine, Fall 2016

“Sketching with Data Opens the Mind's Eye,” National Geographic, 2015

“Drawing and Data Visualization: A Tool,” Tableau, 2014

“Beautiful Reasons,” Malofiej 21, 2014

“The New Aesthetics of Data Narratives.” In New Challenges for Data Design, edited by David Bihanic. Springer, 2014

Visualizing the Data City. By Paolo Ciuccarelli, Giorgia Lupi, Luca Simeone. Springer, 2014

“Non-linear Storytelling: Journalism through ‘Info-spatial’ Composition,” Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, vol. 4, no. 4, 2012

Books Featuring Work

Visual Journalism: Infographics from the World's Best Newsrooms and Designers. Edited by Javier Errea. Gestalten, 2017

Infographics: Designing & Visualizing Data. Edited by Wang Shaoqiang. Promopress, 2017

Mind, Maps, and Infographics. Moleskine, 2017

The Best American Infographics 2016. By Gareth Cook. Mariner Books, 2016

The Best American Infographics 2015. By Gareth Cook and Maria Popova. Mariner Books, 2015

Raw Data: Information Designers’ Sketchbooks. By Steven Heller and Rick Landers. Thames and Hudson, 2014

The Best American Infographics 2014. By Gareth Cook and Nate Silver. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014

Understanding the World. By Sandra Rendgen. Taschen, 2014

Le Mappe del Sapere: Visual data di arti, nuovi linguaggi, diritti. L’infografica ridisegna le conoscenze. Edited by Gianluigi Colin and Antonio Troiano. Rizzoli, 2014

Infographics Design. By BNN Editors. BNN, 2014

Infographics: Designing & Visualizing Data. Edited by Wang Shaoqiang. Sandu Publishing Co, 2014

Visualizing the Data City. By Paolo Ciuccarelli, Giorgia Lupi, Luca Simeone. Springer, 2014

The Infographic History of the World. By James Ball and Valentina D'Efilippo. Harper Collins, 2013

Around the World: The Atlas for Today. By Andrew Losowsky, et al. Gestalten, 2013

Visual Simplexity. By Markus Nix. Entwickler Presse, 2013

2026
”Design Perspectives - Data Humanism”, German Design Council
”Giorgia Lupi - L’Umanesimo dei Dati”, Art Tribune, ITA
”L’umanesimo digitale di Giorgia Lupi”, Il Giornale dell’Arte, ITA
”Lupi svela l’umanesimo dei dati”, Il Resto del Carlino, ITA

2025
“Is the Calibri Typeface Woke? We Asked its Designers”, Wallpaper
“What’s the Fastest Subway Line? (Yes, There is One)”, New Yorker
“This Charming Animation is a Love Letter to New York City’s Subway,” Fast Company
“This Cool New Subway Installation Turns Transit Data into Art at Fulton Center,” TimeOut
“The Poetics of Systems,” Critical Playground
“Designing Against Inequality: Inside Milan’s 24th Triennale,” Cool Hunting
“A Data Love Letter to the NYC Subway,” Kottke
“Climate Tech Atlas Could Unlock Net Zero Breakthroughs,” Forbes
“I vincitori dell'edizione internazionale del Compasso d'Oro,” Domus
“Il design visto da Expo Osaka. Svelati i Compassi d’Oro Internazionali: la lista,” Artibune
“Una designer d’oro: "Ho raccontato a colori i miei giorni del Covid,” il Resto del Carlino
“Giorgia Lupi, da Finale Emilia al Moma di New York. Già tra i 400 creativi ‘che definiscono l'America», ha vinto il Compasso d'Oro: «Ora sogno di riprogettare la mappa della metro di una grande città,” Corriere di Bologna
“What 9 Superstar Designers Actually Want from AI,” Fast Company
“Data-driven Love Letter to the Subway Lights Up Fulton Center,” NY1
“Data is Always a ‘Fragment of a Story’ says Information Designer Giorgia Lupi,” Fast Company

2024
“Pentagram partner Giorgia Lupi on pie charts, embracing the unknown, and why data needs a story,” Fast Company
“8 Designers on the Trends They Want to Die in 2025,” Fast Company
“1,374 Days: My Life with Long Covid,” CommArts
“This Charming New Children’s Book Uses Data Viz to Teach Kids About Emotions,” Fast Company

2023
“Data Humanism: The Data That Shapes Our Lives. Interview with Giorgia Lupi,” MuseumWeek Magazine
“The Best Data Design of 2024,” Fast Company

2022
“Brainstorm Design 2022 - Designing With Data,” Fortune on Demand
“Dear Nightingale, with Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec,” Nightingale
“Giorgia Lupi,” The Great Discontent
“An interview with information designer Giorgia Lupi,” The Guardian
“Un nuovo racconto tra arte e scienza,” Sole 24 Ore 
“What Archives bring to the Creative Process,” The Creative Review

2021
“Viewing data from a different universe: In conversation with Debbie Millman and Giorgia Lupi,” It’s Nice That
“What Drives Me is the Space Between Logic and Beauty,” What Design Can Do
“New York with Giorgia Lupi,” Exceptional Alien
“Where Design Can Make the Biggest Impact in the Next Decade, According to 30 Experts,” Fast Company
“7 Questions, 75 Artists, 1 Very Bad Year,” The New York Times
“Giorgia Lupi: ‘Todos los datos pueden estar sesgados, están sujetos a la interpretación humana, no son objetivos,’” El Pais
“New Codes for a New Design,” Interni Magazine 

2020
“How Information Designer Giorgia Lupi Works With Many Mediums, Many Projects,” Super Hi
“The Best Sites to Follow on Election Night, According to Experts,” Fast Company

”Giorgia Lupi, Designer | New York,” RAI Italia
“What Are You Up To?” Flow Magazine
“Happy Data,” Elle Decor Italy
“Giorgia Lupi,” Etape
“Parola ai designer #1. Giorgia Lupi, l’umanista dei dati,” Artribune “From a Restricted Italy, an Artist’s Eye on the Coronavirus,” The Washington Post
“Saranno i dati a renderci più umani?” Wired Italy
“Why Data Could Become our Greatest Storyteller,” The Creative Review

2019
“Information Designer Giorgia Lupi Debuts a Collaboration With &OtherStories That Celebrates Women in Science,” Vogue
“Meet the Designer Obsessed With the Stories That Live Inside Our Data,” Vanity Fair
“Can Data be Human? Ask Giorgia Lupi, Whose Collaboration with ‘& Other Stories’ Celebrates Women in Science,” Forbes
“Pentagram’s Giorgia Lupi on her data-driven designs for &Other Stories,” It’s Nice That
“You Can Now Wear the Work of Ada Lovelace, Rachel Carson, and Mae Jemison,” Fast Company 
“&OtherStories & Giorgia Lupi’s New Collab Celebrates Women In Science,” Refinery29
“The Data We Do Not See: An Interview with Giorgia Lupi,” Nightingale
“Spettacolo Big Data. La creative GiorgiaLupi: ‘Voglio Stuprivi traducendo I numeri in esperienze,’” La Stampa
“Can Data be Human? The Work of Giorgia Lupi,” The New Yorker

“Data Viz is the New Branding. Just Ask Pentagram’s New Hire,” Fast Company
“Giorgia Lupi on Joining Pentagram, Data and Finding Inspiration Everywhere,” Cool Hunting
“Giorgia Lupi Becomes First Pentagram partner in New York for Seven Years,” It’s Nice That
“‘Epically Long’—How Pentagram Chooses Its New Partners,” Eye on Design
“Meet Pentagram’s Newest Partner: Information Designer Giorgia Lupi,” Core77
“Daten-Drang,” Vogue Germany

2018
“In Conversation with Giorgia Lupi: The Designer That Breathes Life into Data,” Wix Playground
“Interview: Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec on “Observe Collect Draw!” Cool Hunting
“5 Questions with Giorgia Lupi,” NYT Open
“Giorgia Lupi: Data and Our Lives,” Klat Magazine
“Accurat’s Perfectly Imperfect Approach to Data Visualization,” AIGA Eye on Design
“5 Things We Learned from Giorgia Lupi,” Azure Magazine
“Dati trasformati in opere d’arte,” Alley Oop

2017
“The Practice of Visual Storytelling: Interviews with Artists,” Skillshare with Debbie Millman
“Data are not Just Numbers. Some ‘Dear Questions’ to Giorgia Lupi,” Digicult
”Giorgia Lupi and Kaki King on the Value of Beauty in Design,” Design Indaba

2016
“Becoming More Human, One Dataset at a Time,” Evernote
“Six Questions with…Giorgia Lupi,” Visualising Data

2015
“Infogr8 Trend Report,” Infogr8

2014
“Giorgia Lupi | Architect, Co-founder and Design Director at Accurat,” The Legacy Project
“Giorgia Lupi (Accurat) Interview,” Design Boom
“An Interview with Giorgia Lupi,” Substratum 

2026
Named to “The Curious 100” , Eames Institute

2025
Winner, ADI Compasso d’Oro International Award
Named to “Wallpaper* USA 400: The people shaping Creative America in 2025,” Wallpaper Magazine
Judge, Dezeen Awards
Nominee, The Webby Awards
Winner, Communication Arts 2025 Interactive Competition

2024
Member, Alliance Graphique Internationale
Named to “Wallpaper* USA 400: meet the people shaping Creative America in 2024,” Wallpaper Magazine
Nominee, The Webby Awards
Medal Finalist, Society of Publication Designers 59
Winner, Online Journalism Awards
Finalist, Online Journalism Awards
Winner, Innovation by Design 2024
Honoree, Innovation by Design 2024
Winner, Graphite Pencil, D&AD Awards
Judge, Dezeen Awards

2023
Named to “The Wallpaper* guide to creative America: 300 names to know now,” Wallpaper Magazine
Winner, AIGA 365 Awards

2022
Winner, National Design Award
Honorary Degree in Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
Member, World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on New Metrics
Explorer, National Geographic

2019
Judge, National Design Awards

2018
Director’s Fellow, MIT Media Lab
Named to “100 Most Creative People in Business,” Fast Company
Judge, HOW International Design Awards

2017
Judge, Interaction Awards

2016
Judge, Information is Beautiful Awards
Nominee, Beazley Designs of the Year
Finalist, Innovation by Design 2016

2015
Winner, Information is Beautiful Awards
Judge, Information is Beautiful Awards

2014
Judge, “15 Charts, Graphs, And Maps That Will Shape The Future Of Information,” Popular Science
Judge, Information is Beautiful Awards

2013
Winner, Data Visualization, Information is Beautiful Awards
Winner, Data Journalism Award, Strata Conference
Winner, Bronze Lion, Cannes Festival
Winner, Bronze Medal, Malofeij
Winner, Professional Notable, Core77 Design Awards