Visual Editions has been exploring the rocky terrain of current and future books – design, delivery and platform. Their most recent release, Where You Are is a book of maps and website that collects writing (non-fiction and fiction) and visuals (drawings, photographs, paintings) and tests the common notions of what a map is. “A wide range of writers, thinkers, artists responded to what their map would be, bringing together human stories about modern, everyday personal lives and mapping,” states VE’s editors. Each map/story is its own discrete fold-out piece, distinctly designed a fitting into a box with the blurb “A book of maps that will leave you completely lost.”
Introduced by Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor, the Contributors are: Chloe Aridjis, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Alain de Botton, James Bridle, Joe Dunthorne, Geoff Dyer, Olafur Eliasson, Sheila Heti + Ted Mineo, Tao Lin, Valeria Luiselli, Leanne Shapton, John Simpson, Adam Thirlwell, Peter Turchi, Will Wiles and Denis Wood. Designed by Bibliothèque (book) and The Workers (web). Go here to see more and order many for £35.00 / $50.00. What’s more its so much fun to open a goody-box.
Competition for Designers
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