Giorgia Lupi CV 2025
Talks | Publications & Writing | Features & Press | Exhibitions | Selected Juries & Awards | Selected Projects
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 FerraraTalks
Talks
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
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NatGeo Storytelling Summit, 2025
TED, 2024
Paradigms, 2024
THE MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 2021
MoMA - Evening in Humanizing Data, 2021
IXDA - Interaction 20, Milan, 2020
Information Design for Sense Making - Cooper Hewitt, New York, 2020
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Publications & Writing
Speak Data: Artists, Scientists, Thinkers, and Dreamers on How We Live Our Lives in Numbers. Chronicle Books / Princeton Architectural Press, 2025.
“1,374 Days – My life with long COVID,” The New York Times, 2024.
Observe, Collect, Draw! A Visual Journal. Princeton Architectural Press, 2018.
Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Postcards. Princeton Architectural Press (North America) / Penguin Press (UK), 2016.
Features & Press
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
“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
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
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