15 Facts About Lisa Strausfeld

Lisa Strausfeld was born on 1964 or 1965 and is an American design professional and information architect.

Lisa Strausfeld went on to study at Harvard University, where she earned a Master of Architecture.

Lisa Strausfeld later studied media arts and sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a Master of Science degree.

In 2002 Lisa Strausfeld joined design firm Pentagram.

In 2006, while still at Pentagram, Lisa Strausfeld was hired as a Senior Scientist of the Gallup Organization, and worked there until she left to establish Major League Politics in 2011, and subsequently left MLP a year later to head up Bloomberg's data visualization efforts.

In 2015, Lisa Strausfeld returned to the Gallup Organization, serving as Acting Global Creative Director until 2017, when she took a position with The New School as a Senior Research Fellow until 2020.

Lisa Strausfeld worked with architecture firms Ennead Architects and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the arts group Creative Time, Brown University, Columbia Business School, New York's redeveloped Moynihan Station, and the information visualizations for The New York Times during her career.

Lisa Strausfeld now serves as the Vice President of design of System, Inc She is the founder of Informationart, where she serves as an information architect, data visualization entrepreneur and principal.

In 2002, Lisa Strausfeld became a partner in the New York office of Pentagram, the distinguished international design consultancy.

Shortly after joining, Lisa Strausfeld collaborated with partner Paula Scher on the identities and information installations for the corporate headquarters of Bloomberg and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

In 2005, Lisa Strausfeld worked with Andrew Blauvelt on the creation of a 60-foot dynamic marquee for Walker Expanded, an innovative new graphic identity that uses font creation technology to generate branding applications from business cards to environmental-scale graphics at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

In 2010, Lisa Strausfeld worked on an interactive media installation for the Museum of Arts and Design in New York in an aim to revolutionize data visualization.

Lisa Strausfeld was honored for Interaction Design in the 2010 National Design Awards presented by Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; she was a finalist for the award in 2009, the first year the discipline was recognized by the awards.

Lisa Strausfeld has received six awards in the prestigious International Design Excellence Awards, co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America, and her projects have been honored by the Art Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, the AIGA and the Society for Environmental Graphic Design.

Lisa Strausfeld has a daughter named Muriel, named for her mentor, Muriel Cooper.