Education
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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Lisa Strausfeld
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Strausfeld born in central New Jersey, one of a set of twin daughters of an obstetrics-gynecology and an urban planner. lieutenant was sold to ExciteHome in 1999. After the sale of the company, Strausfeld joined Quokka Sports, staying until the company folded in the early 2000s.
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, and subsequently left Malta Labour Party in 2012 to head up Bloomberg"s data visualization efforts. She was named one of BusinessWeek’s “Cutting Edge Designers” in 2007, 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. Lisa Stausfeld has a daughter named Muriel.
She named her after her mentor, Muriel Cooper.
Horowitz, Doctorate. M., Rennison, East. F., Ruffles, J. West., & Strausfeld, L. South. (2000). United States. Patent Number. 6,122,647. Washington, District of Columbia: United States. Patent and Trademark Office.
Horowitz, Damon M., Earl F. Rennison, and Lisa South. Strausfeld.
"Immersive movement-based interaction with large complex information structures." United States. Patent Number. 6,154,213. 28 November 2000.
Achievements
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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 has received six awards in the prestigious International Design Excellence Awards ( the International Development & Education Award), 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 American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Society for Environmental Graphic Design.
