Where We Are A Book of Maps That Will Leave You Feeling Completely Lost |
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| Author:
| Dyer, Geoff
Zanganeh, Lila Azam
Shapton, Leanne |
| Contribution by:
| de Botton, Alain
Rawsthorn, Alice |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9565692-4-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2013 |
| Publisher: | Visual Editions
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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Every day we map. We map how we get from a to b. We map when we're somewhere new, and somewherewe've been many times before. We map ourselves, our days, our thoughts, memories, what we want to mark,save and share. Today it seems, that most of the time, despite all this mapping, we actually don't have a clearsense of where we are.
Where We Are, a collection of new work, explores the shift from our classic understanding of map as geographyto a more personal, human map. This...
More DescriptionEvery day we map. We map how we get from a to b. We map when we're somewhere new, and somewherewe've been many times before. We map ourselves, our days, our thoughts, memories, what we want to mark,save and share. Today it seems, that most of the time, despite all this mapping, we actually don't have a clearsense of where we are.Where We Are, a collection of new work, explores the shift from our classic understanding of map as geographyto a more personal, human map. This collection of new writings, photographs, drawings, thinking looks toexplode the map as we know it. A book of maps that puts people, not destinations at the centre, hoping to leavereaders feeling completely lost.A collection of work, edited by Visual Editions, made with help by our friends at Google Creative Lab, publishedas a book and on the screen.