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

2025

Data-Art Symposium, Boston
NatGeo Storytelling Summit, Washington, D.C.

2024

TED, New York
Paradigms, Rome, Italy
DRS2024, Boston
THE MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York

2022

Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia
We Love Graphic Design Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
EYEO Festival, Minneapolis
Fortune 50, New York
Design March, Reykjavik, Iceland
Design Subtropic, Miami
Design Museum Everywhere, virtual

2021

What Design Can Do, Mexico City, Mexico
Adobe Max, virtual
Global Design Forum, virtual
Herron School of Art and Design, virtual
Penn State University, virtual
MoMA - Evening in Humanizing Data, virtual

2020

OFFF, virtual
AIGA, virtual
ITHRA, virtual
IXDA - Interaction 20, Milan, Italy
Museum of the City of New York, New York
Human by Design - Northeastern University, Boston
Information Design for Sense Making, Cooper Hewitt, New York

2019

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

2018

Data Storytelling NYC, Columbia University, New York
Tableau Conference, New Orleans
Google Talks, Google Heaquarters, New York
EYEO Festival, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
HOW Design Live, Boston
Toronto DigiFest, George Brown University, Toronto
Wharton People Analytics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Penny Stamps Speakers Series, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2017

STIR - The Experience Lab, Herbst Theater, San Francisco
Your Closet, in Data (workshop), Museum of Modern Art, New York
VizUM Symposium, University of Miami, Miami
Hello Data! How to Design Visualizations for Humans, Uber Headquarters, New York
IEEE VIS Conference, Phoenix
Meet the Media Guru, Milan, Italy
The Art of Data Visualization, Columbia University, New York
TED, TED New York, New York
Design Indaba, Opera Theater, Cape Town
UX+DATA meetup, New York
The Glass Room NYC, New York
School for Poetic Computation Salon, New York

2016

The New School, New York
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
SciVizNYC, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
MoMA R&D 18th Salon: Informed Future, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
VISUALIZED, The New York Times, New York
Digital Design Days and Awards, OFFF Milan Festival, Milan, Italy
Dear Data: Giorgia Lupi and Debbie Millman, New York Public Library, New York
Dear Data: Book Launch with Maria Popova, Rizzoli Bookstore, New York
PSFK conference, Museum Of Jewish Heritage, New York
It Takes Two, Guggenheim Museum, New York
The School of Visual Arts, New York

2015

Pop Tech, Camden, Maine
EYEO Festival, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2014

La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
EYEO Festival, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Designers and Geeks, General Assembly, New York
WIRED Next Fest, Milan
Google @ King’s Cross, Google Headquarters, London
Resonate Festival, Belgrade
Tapestry Conference, Annapolis
Visualized, The New York Times, New York

2013

Strata Conference, New York
The Conference, Malmoö
NYPL Labs Talk, New York Public Library, New York
EYEO festival, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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

Books Featuring Work

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

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

Moleskine - Mind Maps and Infographics Corraini Editore, 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 : "The information designers sketchbooks Steven Heller and Rick Landers, Thames and Hudson, 2001

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 (ITA), Rizzoli 2014

Infographics Design by Infogra.me, BNN, 2014

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

Infographics - Designing & Visualizing Data Sandu Publishing Co, 2014

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

Around the World: The Atlas for Today by Andrew Losowsky, S. Ehmann and R. Klanten, Gestalten, 2013

Visual Simplexity by Markus Nix, Entwickler Presse, 2013

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

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

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

“Beautiful Reasons,” Malofiej 21, 2014

2025

“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

“How Giorgia Lupi Visualizes Life Through Data,” MoMA 

“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

“Design As Care,” Design Observer

“Bonus Episode: Design As Recovery with Pentagram’s Giorgia Lupi,” Design Observer

“Information Designer Giorgia Lupi and Her Search for Love in the Time of COVID,” Full Bleed, Season 1, Episode 2

“036—Giorgia Lupi,” Fail. Hard. with Will Hall

“8 designers on the trends they want to die in 2025,” Fast Company

“1,374 Days: My Life with Long Covid,” CommArts

“Episode #264: Giorgia Lupi,” PolicyViz

“This charming new children’s book uses data viz to teach kids about emotions,” Fast Company

“This New York Times article used data visualisation to show a human feeling,” D&AD

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 

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 &Other Stories 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 

“&Other Stories & 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 

“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

The Truthful Art 

“Infogr8 Trend Report,” Spring 2015, 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 

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