This is me and only me by Giorgia Lupi and Madeleine Garner | Rizzoli Bookstore
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Giorgia Lupi and Madeleine Garner discuss their new picture book for children—and adults—about the power of data. Information designer Giorgia Lupi and writer Madeleine Garner join us to discuss their new picture book for children—and adults—about the power of data. They will be in conversation with Michael Bierut, an award-winning graphic designer and partner at Pentagram. PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm. Can't attend?Order your signed copy(please specify that you would like it signed in the comments box at checkout). This is me, and only me. But what makes me...me? The world is full of numbers, details, and beautiful things to observe. But what do you take particular note of? What do you find the most interesting or worthy of being measured, documented, and drawn? What you choose to notice can teach you a lot about who you are and what you care about. And if you use symbols, colors and annotations to visualize and add context to your observations, you can make a beautiful portrait that tells the story of you! In This is Me, and Only Me Giorgia Lupi and Madeleine Garner show how everything we observe about the world around us can teach us something about who we are inside. Noticing what makes us happy, sad, or excited; seeing what makes us and our friends laugh; discovering that we all see the stars in the sky, but maybe we choose to remember them differently from a friend. All these details and many more can lead readers, young and adult alike, to take a closer look at what they notice about the world -- and therefore, themselves. Giorgia Lupi is an award-winning information designer whose work synthesizes data and storytelling in innovative ways to create unique and singular brand expressions. A partner at the international design consultancy Pentagram, she designs engaging data-driven visual narratives across print, digital and environmental media that create new insight and appreciation of people, ideas, and organizations. Her vibrant and inspiring design work, for clients such as Google, IBM, Gates Foundation, and The New York Times, empowers leading global organizations to achieve their mission through data-driven storytelling, and reflects her belief that data has the capacity to make us all more human—advancing our intelligence, engagement, and delight. One of the most lauded designers of her generation and a prominent voice in the field of data design, Lupi was the 2022 recipient of the National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 2022 she also received an honorary doctorate from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and she has been commissioned for original art installations by MoMA, Museum of the City of New York, New York Botanical Garden, and TED. A former MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow, she is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on New Metrics and a Fellow of the RSA. Madeleine Garner is a New York-based writer. Her play, “I Ragazzi,” co-written with her father, Broadway writer David Goldsmith, was published in 2023 by the Dramatists Play Service and is now available for licensing. Garner was accepted into the Spring 2023 Woodward Residency where she worked on and completed many children’s books. Garner received her B.A. in Art History and Italian Studies from Wheaton College in Massachusetts in 2012. She resides with her husband, baby, and cat in Ridgewood, Queens. Michael Bierut has been a graphic designer for nearly fifty years. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning in 1980, his first job was in the office of Lella and Massimo Vignelli. He worked there for a decade, ultimately as Vice President for Graphic Design. In 1990, he became a partner in the New York office of Pentagram. His clients have ranged from the National Gallery of Art, Princeton University, Governors' Island, The Obama Presidential Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Wildlife Conservation Society, Poetry Magazine, Archewell, and Verizon. Michael was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1989, installed in the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2003, and awarded the profession’s highest honor, the AIGA Medal, in 2006. In 2008, he was named winner in the Design Mind category of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. Among other academic appointments, he has been lecturer at the Yale School of Management and senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art. As part of the latter class, he created the “100 Days Project,” an exercise involving the daily repetition of a single creative act which is now practiced worldwide. Michael is co-editor of the five-volume series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design and cofounded Design Observer, a blog of design and cultural criticism which now features podcasts on design, popular culture, and business. His books, which include 79 Short Essays on Design (2007), How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry and (every once in a while) change the world (2015 and 2021) and Now You See It and Other Essays on Design (2018), have been translated into German, French, Korean, Chinese, Polish and Russian.
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