This is me and only me by Georgia Lupi and Madeleine Garner

Join information designer Giorgia Lupi and writer Madeleine Garner to celebrate their charming new book, an illustrated guide to how data can help us learn about ourselves and the world.

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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, co-author of "Dear Data," is an information designer and has always seen the world, and herself, through a lens of data, data collection, and data visualization. Together with Madeleine Garner, a former preschool teacher, they reveal, through story, narrative, and illustration, the power of data to even the youngest of readers. We can all learn more about ourselves through data -- we just have to slow down, take note, and draw!

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.

Madeleine Garner is a Brooklyn-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 in RIdgewood, Queens where she worked on her children’s books. Garner currently works at Pentagram Design and 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.

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Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States