FEATURES
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LITHUB
LitHub excerpted two maps that challenge myths of national purity, one with data from ancient DNA and one with a database of ancestral lands.
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Fast Company
Five striking maps depict the invisible—and devastating—impacts of climate change.
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PRINT Magazine
It’s still tricky to fully comprehend the enormity of global warming. A designer-geographer duo makes the invisible visible with a new atlas.
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The Guardian
Eight graphics reveal causes and consequences of the climate crisis that are hard to detect with the naked eye.
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Visualizing the Invisible
Infographics guru John Grimwade shares how we developed two graphics, one toward greater simplicity and another toward greater complexity.
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The Washington Post
Oliver wrote an op-ed on how data visualization gives us the power to see deadly storms not as freak occurrences, but as part of a pattern.
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The Conversation
James on why eye-catching graphics are vital for getting to grips with climate change
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Royal Geographical Society
The RGS interviewed James on how we created this map of Greenland’s glaciers and how you can create something similar.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
‘Fantastic . . . a magical combo of art and graphic gut-punch.’
—Dave Eggers
‘If you’re into #dataViz, you *need* to have this one.’
—Alberto Cairo, author of The Functional Art
‘In their previous books, Cheshire and Uberti upended our ideas of what maps and atlases can be . . . [ATLAS OF THE INVISIBLE] is no exception.’
‘AN ABSOLUTE VISUAL DELIGHT.’
—Manuel Lima, author of
Visual Complexity and more
‘Demography and graphic design meet in an extraordinarily revealing book.’
‘Spectacular & truly Humboldtian.’
—Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature
‘a masterful example of the power of visual storytelling to reveal . . . meaning and knowledge otherwise hidden from view.’
—B. Natterson-Horowitz, MD, author of Zoobiquity
‘A cartographer’s dream, and revelatory to the ReST OF US.’
—Chicago Tribune, ‘Best Gift Books 2021’
‘[T]his unique volume . . . is designed to inspire readers to act.’
―Library Journal
‘Imagine Morpheus explaining The Matrix to you—only he’s also a BRILLIANT graphic designer.’
—Minh Lê, author of Lift and more
‘Atlas of the Invisible erupts with a kind of rigorous wonder . . . a strange and startling masterpiece.’
—Matthew Specktor, author of
American Dream Machine and more
‘an invaluable resource . . . it represents a critical new way of seeing and understanding.’
‘A STONE COLD ACT OF GENIUS.’
—Dan Snow, HistoryHit
‘Mind-blowing maps that harness the power of data to tell us something about ourselves and our planet.’
—Hannah Fry, author of Rutherford & Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything
‘AN AWE-INSPIRING VISUAL PROJECT . . . incredibly detailed and beautifully designed cartography.’
—Waterstones