About

Tanvi is a design technologist operating at the intersection of data, aesthetics, and the humanities.

Hi! I'm a Design Researcher at Emory University, contributing to Data by Design: A History in Five Charts, set to be published by MIT Press in 2025. I'm also a Producer at BIPOC Design History. Previously, I have worked with Giorgia Lupi’s team at Pentagram, Public Policy Lab, and Spotify. I live in Brooklyn with my two cats, Yuchi and Bubbles.

Writing

Contributing Author, Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Non-Binary Field Guide for Graphic Designers by Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Tobias • 2021

Guest Curator, People's Graphic Design Archive: Stamps from Ghana • 2024

Speaking

“The Line Graph and the Slave Ship: Rethinking the Origins of Modern Data Visualization”, Keynote at Outlier Conference • 2025

“Listening to (Digital) Images: A Black Sound Studies Approach to Alt‑Text”, co‑presented by Margy Adams, Tanvi Sharma, Shiyao Li, Jay Varner, and Lauren Klein at DH • 2024

“Margins of Violence: Navigating Resistance in Data Visualization” , AIGA 2024 National Conference • 2024

Open Source Art Contributor’s Conference, University of Denver • 2023

The College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University • 2023

The Line Graph and the Slave Ship: Rethinking the Origins of Data Viz at Yale University Digital Humanities Lab and Department of Computer Science • 2023

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Typographic

This website is typeset in Space Grotesk.

Technical

This website is built using Next.js, an open-source web framework to help build React-based applications. All styles have been set up using Tailwind.