LO 08: The Creative Practice of an Individual

Stefanie Posavec is a designer, artist, and author who creatively communicates data to all audiences. Her work is fun, modern, and has a heavy graphic design influence which shows through her colorful and geometric style. Her designs are not also visual but wearable (“Air Transformed”) or even interactive through dance (“Relationship Dance Steps”). She also enjoys book design when the opportunity presents itself. Her work has been exhibited at places such as the MoMA, the Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), ArtScience Museum (Singapore), and more. One work I particularly enjoy is “Data Murmurations: Points in Flight (People Like You),” which illustrates how the various stakeholders in a biobank perceive the people who consent to their biological samples and data being used for research, specifically at Imperial College. The work itself looks almost childlike with the sketchy line quality, and it’s even more enjoyable when you scroll down and see the sketches of all the ways she imagined the data visualization. Describing her creativity as childlike may sound insulting, but i enjoy the uninhibited and beautiful visual of serious data. Her “Dear Data” and “Drawing the Dictionary” projects looks quite similar, and are actually all physical work, adding to the feeling of a lovely drawing handed to you by your child. Not all her work is in this style, but I find it very charming.

http://www.stefanieposavec.com/mywork