lulureadsalot's review against another edition
5.0
This book is never-ending eye-candy and it gives me so much joy. I love flipping through it and everyone that comes through my living room will sit with it for hours. I am inspired by this fun journey of introspection and mindfulness - the data collection forcing them to be more present and conscious of their actions, actions of others, their surroundings - to better understanding of data and data representation. I can't wait to try my hands at this with their workbook!
redroofcolleen's review against another edition
3.0
An interesting approach to being mindful of the everyday, though it wasn't the original intention of the book. I found the graphics more intriguing than the data they represented. Many of them were downright beautiful!
rose_peterson's review
4.0
While this is more of a coffee table book than an engrossing read, the data visualizations are compelling. I wish there was a little more variance or risk-taking in the drawings as they began to look the same over 52 weeks, but I'm intrigued by the artists' conclusion about collecting data on their daily lives: "By noticing our behaviour, we were influencing our behaviour."
I'm also interested in exploring possible uses of this book as a mentor text for my students...
I'm also interested in exploring possible uses of this book as a mentor text for my students...
spiderfelt's review
3.0
This book was a fascinating exercise. I give the creators full marks for the concept and their extraordinary creativity. As a book, it was difficult to read and ultimately, without having a relationship with either creator, I was not motivated to read the entire collection with care and attention to the minute detail they invested in the project.
khchristensen's review
3.0
The premise of this book was really interesting to me - two artists spend each week of the year recording data about specific things in their lives, illustrate the results on a postcard, and send them to each other. The postcards are fun to look at, but the depth of data is incredibly overwhelming and I quickly stopped reading their analyses.
snowbenton's review against another edition
3.0
I loved the premise of this book: two designers would track the same piece of data for a week (number of times they look in a mirror, how often they say thank you, sounds they hear, etc) and send each other postcards with a visual representation of their tracking, complete with a key that explains the design elements. However, I quickly found myself bored as each page was just the picture of the postcards themselves. Giorgia's drawings were impressively rendered, but her detail was so extravagant I read them and then moved on without looking back at the postcard. Stefanie's were more manageable and her comments were amusing, but her drawings were terrible. Overall, I wanted more of a story, or at least more interesting postcards.