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.

Education

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

Selected Jury, Awards & Honors

2025

Winner, Compasso d’Oro Award for 1,374 Days - My life with long Covid
Wallpaper* USA 400: The people shaping Creative America in 2025
Judge, Dezeen Awards
Nominee, The Webby Awards
Winner, Websites/Microsites, Communication Arts 2025 Interactive Competition

2024

Member, Alliance Graphique Internationale
Wallpaper* USA 400: meet the people shaping Creative America in 2024
Nominee, Best Data Visualization, The Webby Awards
Medal Finalist, Web/App: Custom Feature Design: Single Page, Society of Publication Designers 59
Winner, Online Commentary / Personal Narrative, Online Journalism Awards
Finalist, Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling, Online Journalism Awards
Winner, Data Design, Innovation by Design Awards by Fast Company
Honoree, Design of the Year, Innovation by Design Awards by Fast Company
Winner, Graphite Pencil, D&AD Awards
Judge, Dezeen Awards

2023

The Wallpaper* guide to creative America: 300 names to know now
Winner, Information Design / Data Viz, AIGA 365 Awards

2022

National Design Award (Communication Design), by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Museum
Honorary Degree in Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Fellow, Royal Society for Art
Member, World Economic Forum’s Global Future council on New Metrics
Explorer, National Geographic

2019

Judge, National Design Awards by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Museum

2018

Director’s Fellow, MIT Media Lab
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 Awards, by Fast Company

2015

Gold Medal and Most Beautiful Project, 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

Gold Medal, Data Visualization, Information is Beautiful Awards
Data Journalism Award, Strata Conference
Bronze Lion, Direct Advertising, Cannes Festival
Bronze Medal, Data Visualization Portfolio, Malofeij
Professional Notable, Core77 Design Awards

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 

Exhibitions

2024

Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Deign, Art, ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA

2022

Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love, New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Detour 2.0: A Journey Through Creative Catalysts, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Ordo naturalis, ordo artificialis (Natural order, artificial order), Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy

2021

Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Mindworks, Roman Family Center for Decision Research and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL

2020

Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers, Museum of the City of New York, NY

2019

Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt, New York, NY
Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, The XXII International Triennale, Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy

2018

Coder le Monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Design Week Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey
ITEMS: Is Fashion Modern? Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
123 Data, EDF Foundation, Paris, France

2017

Items: Is Fashion Modern?, Museum of Modern Art
Text Me: How We Live in Language, Museum of Design, Atlanta
Shenzen Design Week, Shenzhen, China
Jerusalem Design Week, Jerusalem, Israel

2016

Our Lives in Data, London Science Museum, London, UK
Big Bang Data, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, Singapore
BreraDesignDistrict, Milan Design Week, Milan, Italy

2015

Big Bang Data, Somerset House, London, UK
Measure, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY
The Art of Networks, New York Hall of Science, New York, NY

2014

Le Mappe del Sapere, Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy

Selected Projects

2025

A Data Love Letter to the Subway, art installation, MTA Arts & Design
A Patchwork of Progress, 25th anniversary campaign, Gates Foundation
Breaking4, campaign, NIKE
Inequalities, visual identity and graphics program, Triennale Milano
Fall 2025, lecture and event poster, Yale School of Architecture

2024

Fifty Years of Dia, anniversary campaign and interactive timeline, Dia Art Foundation
Brand repositioning and website redesign, University at Buffalo School of Architecture
Polybio Consortium Project Explorer, interactive digital platform, Polybio Research Foundation
Data-driven digital redesign, CTrees
Economic Value of Improving Aging, digital report, Amaranth Foundation
Renewing Democracy: Women Leading the Way, data portraits for summit attendees, Wellesley College
Dear G20 Leaders, campaign, Project Everyone
Brand identity, Digital Architecture Lab

2023

1,374 Days – My life with long Covid, visual op-ed, The New York Times
Mindworks: The Science of Thinking, permanent installation for the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2023 Broad Donor Report, data visualizations, Broad Institute Brand refresh and data visualization, Bedrock Ocean Exploration
Brand positioning, naming, identity, and website, Advocates for Trans Equality
Unraveling Stories, collection of data visualization-based rug designs, Well Woven
Brand identity, Remission Biome
Learning Changes Everything, campaign, Gates Foundation

2022

Telling My Story Through Data, interactive, data-driven installation, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Deloitte Insights, data visualizations, Deloitte
MethaneSAT, visual identity, data visualization, and website, Environmental Defense Fund
Data visualization, Twist Out Cancer
I Voted sticker redesign, campaign, Fast Company
Around the World’s Table, immersive data installation, New York Botanical Garden

2021

Data-driven brand identity, Wyth
Discover Forgiveness, interactive data visualization, World Templeton Foundation
Artolution Annual Report, data visualizations, Artolution
RAND Art + Data Residency, data visualizations, RAND Corporation
Dynamic data visualization, WGSN
Science Stack: Tools Within Reach, interactive infographic, Wilson Center
Plastic Air, interactive web-based experience, Google Arts & Culture
Doomsday Clock data visualizations, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

2020

5 States of Ready, campaign, Verizon
Gender Equality Creative Platform, campaign and data visualization system, Gates Foundation
Book of Life, artist book, Moleskine Foundation
My 2020 in Data (So Far), data visualization, The New York Times
Global Goals Day of Factivism, data visualization campaign, Project Everyone
Dear New York…, online experience, self-initiated project
Data visualization system, Covid-19 Technology Task Force
Happy Data, data visualizations, self-initiated project
Covid-19 Charts, infographic redesign, self-initiated project
Data visualization system & guidelines, IBM

2019

Giorgia Lupi x &OtherStories, data-driven fashion collection for &OtherStories
Evolved identity, website, and data visualization, Goalkeepers
Mapping Ourselves, data collection tool, Atlas of Caregiving
The Digital in Architecture: Then, Now and in the Future, data visualization, SPACE1o
What Counts, interactive data installation, Museum of the City of New York
The Room of Change, data tapestries and installation, La Triennale di Milano

2018

...ma poi, che cosè un nome? data visualization installation, CDEC Foundation
Data visualization installation, Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Milan
MEET, data-driven interactive user experience, Fondazione Cariplo

2017

Bruises: The Data We Don’t See, data-driven narrative and visualization, self-initiated project
Personalized data portraits, TED 2017
Data Items: A Fashion Landscape, data-driven installation, Museum of Modern Art

2016

Building Hopes, immersive data-art experience Google News Lab
World POTUS, data-driven digital experience, Google News Lab
Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Postcards, book, Princeton Architectural Press

2015

Friends in Space, social network, Accurat
La Lettura, data visualizations, Corriere della Sera

2014

Peninsula Talks, interactive data visualization, Telecom Italia Mobile and Humboldt Books

Talks

2025

Data-Art Symposium, Boston, June 11-12
NatGeo Storytelling Summit, DC, Feb 12-13

2024

TED, New York, September 12
Paradigms, Rome, September 24
DRS2024, Boston, June 25
THE MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York, March 16

2022

Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, October 25
We Love Graphic Design Conference, Copenhagen, October 1
EYEO Festival, Minneapolis, June 14-17
Fortune 50, New York, May 24
Design March, Reykjavik, May 3
Design Subtropic, Miami, March 7-12
Design Museum Everywhere, virtual, Jan 27

2021

What Design Can Do, Mexico City, Oct 28-30
Adobe Max, virtual, October 26-28
Global Design Forum, virtual, September 21
Herron School of Art and Design, virtual, April 28
Penn State University, virtual, March 19
MoMA - Evening in Humanizing Data, virtual, March 10

2020

OFFF, virtual, December 3
AIGA, virtual, November 10
ITHRA, virtual, October 31,
IXDA - Interaction 20, Milan, February 2-7
Museum of the City of New York, New York, February 13
Human by Design - Northeastern University, Boston, January 28
Information Design for Sense Making - Cooper Hewitt, New York, January 21

2019

Creative Mornings, New York, October 4th
Typographic, New York
Adobe 99U, New York

2018

Data Storytelling NYC, Columbia University, New York
Tableau Conference, New Orleans
Google Talks, Google Head Quarters, 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
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
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, 2014
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