Visual storytelling through artistic personal data.
"Dear Data" is a compelling invitation to blend art with the seemingly mundane aspects of life. Reading it might feel like a journey through a gallery of the everyday, each postcard a painting of the personal. It's not just a book, it's a new lens for viewing your own world, a prompt to observe and create. If you're intrigued by infographics, personal stories, or the intersection of art and data, this book will inspire you in unexpected ways.
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ISBN: 9781846149061
Publisher: PENGUIN UK
Date of Publication: 2016-08-17
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.24
(rated by 1131 readers)
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From an award-winning project comes an inspiring, collaborative book that makes data artistic, personal - and open to all. Each week for a year, Giorgia and Stefanie sent each other a postcard describing what had happened to them during that week around a particular theme. But they didn't write it, they drew it: a week of smiling, a week of apologies, a week of desires. Presenting their fifty-two cards, along with thoughts and ideas about the data-drawing process, Dear Data hopes to inspire you to draw, slow down and make connections with other people, to see the world through a new lens, where everything and anything can be a creative starting point for play and expression.
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Visual storytelling through artistic personal data.
"Dear Data" is a compelling invitation to blend art with the seemingly mundane aspects of life. Reading it might feel like a journey through a gallery of the everyday, each postcard a painting of the personal. It's not just a book, it's a new lens for viewing your own world, a prompt to observe and create. If you're intrigued by infographics, personal stories, or the intersection of art and data, this book will inspire you in unexpected ways.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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