Oliver Uberti Discusses Book at Literati, 4/15
Literati Bookstore, 124 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor
April 15, 2015 from 7:00 — 8:00pm
Literati is thrilled to welcome designer Oliver Uberti, who will present his book, The Information Capital: 100 Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You View The City.
Which borough of London is the happiest? Where are the city’s tweeting hot spots? How many animals does the fire brigade save each year? What makes London the information capital?
Design alum Oliver Uberti and geographer James Cheshire could tell you, but they’d rather show you. Combining data with stunning design, their new book London: The Information Capital shows us a city as we’ve never seen it before – from who lives the longest to how flights stack over Heathrow, from “The Knowledge” of a cabbie to the territories of London’s thirteen football tribes. The result? One hundred portraits of an old city in a very new way.
Uberti designed and co-wrote the 240-page book, Penguin’s 5th best-selling hardback non-fiction title for 2014. Says Uberti, “As an American, I couldn’t believe how much data is publicly available online in the UK and how easy it is to access it. I felt like a sculptor in a quarry.”
Though the book’s not yet available in the US, Uberti will be signing copies and sharing his process at Literati Bookstore on Wednesday, April 15 at 7 p.m.