Lisa Strausfeld

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Lisa Strausfeld
Born 1964
Occupation Data visualization

Lisa Strausfeld (born 1964) is an American design professional. She is a leading Information architect.

Early life

Lisa Strausfeld born in central New Jersey, one of a set of twin daughters of an ob-gyn and an urban planner. She studied art history and computer science at Brown University and received master's degrees in architecture from Harvard University and in media arts and sciences from M.I.T.

Career

Perspecta

In 1996, Lisa Strausfeld and two MIT classmates launched Perspecta, a software company in San Francisco that made visual user-interfaces for large databases. It was sold to Excite@Home in 1999.

Pentagram

In 2002 Strausfeld became a partner in the New York office of Pentagram (design studio), the distinguished international design consultancy. At Pentagram Strausfeld and her team specialized in digital information projects including the design of large-scale media installations, software prototypes and user interfaces, signage and websites for a broad range of civic, cultural and corporate clients. Strausfeld left Pentagram in 2011 to establish Major League Politics,[1] a data-visualization venture. She continues to work on projects for clients through her studio, InformationArt.

Other projects

Her projects include the design of Sugar, the graphical user interface for One Laptop per Child; interactive media installations for the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the Detroit Institute of Arts; large-scale media installations for the corporate headquarters of Bloomberg L.P., the expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and New York's redeveloped Moynihan Station; Web sites for Gallup, the architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the arts group Creative Time, Brown University, Columbia Business School, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.); and information visualizations for The New York Times.

Personal life

Lisa Stausfeld has a daughter named Muriel. She named her after her mentor, Muriel Cooper.

Awards

Lisa Strausfeld was honored for Interaction Design in the 2010 National Design Awards, presented by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; she was a finalist for the award in 2009, the first year the discipline was recognized by the awards. She was named one of BusinessWeek’s “Cutting Edge Designers” in 2007,[2] and Sugar and the Times visualizations were both featured in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition "Design and the Elastic Mind" in 2008. Fast Company featured her as one of its 2009 Masters of Design.[3] She has received six awards in the prestigious International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), and her projects have been honored by the Art Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, the AIGA and the Society for Environmental Graphic Design.

References

  1. ↑ Roush, Chris (May 10, 2012). "Bloomberg hires head of data visualization". Talking Biz News. Retrieved 2013-02-10. 
  2. ↑ Jana, Reena (January 30, 2007). "The Relentless Lisa Strausfeld". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Retrieved 2011-03-07. 
  3. ↑ Tischler, Linda (October 2009). "Infomaniac". Fast Company. Retrieved 2011-03-07. 
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