Staff Pick
When we think about data we rarely think about beauty. In their previous book, Where the Animals Go, James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti used data on animal migration and movement to craft fascinating maps and infographics that let us peer into parts of the animal world we could never see on our own. In Atlas of the Invisible, they apply these same techniques to illuminate aspects of the human world normally invisible. Using enormous data sets they have been able to show how geography and history continue to influence our present and future. Recommended By Ryan V.W., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire and Uberti explore happiness levels around the globe, trace the undersea cables and cell towers that connect us, examine hidden scars of geopolitics, and illustrate how a warming planet affects everything from hurricanes to the hajj. Years in the making, Atlas of the Invisible invites readers to marvel at the promise and peril of data, and to revel in the secrets and contours of a newly visible world.
Winner of the 2021 British Cartographic Society Awards including the Stanfords Award for Printed Mapping and the John C. Bartholomew Award for Thematic Mapping.
Review
"An eye-opening visual look at the assumptions and trends that lie beneath how the modern world ticks... Demography and graphic design meet in an extraordinarily revealing book." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
About the Author
James Cheshire is professor of geographic information and cartography at University College London.
Oliver Uberti is a Los Angeles–based designer and a former design editor for National Geographic.