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5 years of experiments
This is an article on my experience with accidental data visualisation through many experiments and how it’s helped me be more
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Last week I attended the workshop of one of my design idols Stefanie Posavec and creative connector Anne Ditmeyer. More on that below. This workshop made me realise that I worked with data more than I thought!
Stefanie and her co-author Giorgia Lupi put together a book called Dear Data in which they spent a chunk of time tracking different sets of data onto postcards and sharing the outcomes. It is very wholesome and insightful. Their work sparked a movement and community of people who did the same globally, see below.
Example of a week of swearing:
The first time I found this book I wondered about MOMA New York and was taken aback by the visual language used to communicate such simple and beautiful ideas and wanted to find a way to incorporate these ideas into my daily life more to see my progress and how far I've grown as a person.
So that's what I started doing, tracking mental growth to see it physically; going to the gym seeing muscle growth to mapping out mental wins was a…
