Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps: The Atlas of Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know - Hardcover

Vargic, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071818114X ISBN 13: 9780718181147

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2015

Synopsis

Explore the world as you never knew it with Vargic's Astonishing Miscellany of Curious Maps

This Atlas includes four fold out whole printed maps AND a double sided removable poster showing The Map of Stereotypes and The Map of Video Websites.

Vargic's Miscellany is a collection of 64 maps and infographics.

See the world mapped out by stereotypes; discover the Internet in cartographical form; marvel at the maps of global technology and culture; and explore the world through infographics and statistics.

This wonderful and strange atlas is a treasure trove of interesting, unexpected and bizarre facts - a glorious celebration of our big beautiful diverse world.

Includes:
The Map of Stereotypes
Maps of Internet, YouTube and Gaming
Maps of Literature, Music and Sport
The Map of Separatist Europe
51 infographic maps - from lighting strikes to sexual partners, heavy metal bands to tractors

And many more . . .

About this title

Review:

Beautiful (Independent)

It's a cliché to say an artist can change the way you look at the world - but Martin Vargic truly has (www.nypost.com)

This is a must read (www.visualnews.com)

Bitingly satirical (www.slate.com)

A phenomenal collection (www.independent.co.uk)

Amazing (Daily Mail)

Gorgeous (www.pastemagazine.com)

Martin Vargic's maps of the world look like they belong on parchment, hung on walls of estates that no one can really afford . . . but there's more to the world than piles of dirt and great swathes of sea water . . . his cartography creates an indirect commentary on how cultural proximities are every bit as relevant in the digital age as geographical ones (www.bostonglobe.com)

Weird and wonderful (www.mirror.co.uk)

From the Back Cover:

New York Times bestseller

A stunning full-color collection of inventive, poignant, humorous, and controversial maps of the world from the internationally recognized digital artist behind the stunning "Map of Stereotypes."

Slovakian artist Martin Vargic rose to international fame in 2014 when his "Map of the Internet 1.0" went viral. Using old National Geographic maps as inspiration, he drew a striking and meticulous map of the most visited websites in the world, portraying Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple as sovereign countries; the eastern continent as the "old world" with originators like Microsoft and IBM; and at the most southern tip, a forgotten wasteland of outdated and obsolete places of the past like You've Got Mail and Friendster. The extraordinary "Map of Stereotypes" is a cartogram based on a westerner's stereotypical view of the world that assigns more than two thousand labels and pop culture references to cities, states, countries, continents, oceans, and seas on a large-scale world map. Visually stunning and remarkably clever, both artworks generated notice worldwide.

Beautiful, unique, and packed with intricate and brilliant details, Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps showcases this visual artist's rare talent as never before in a gorgeous edition sure to be treasured by fans. Along with eight exquisite and unexpected conceptual atlases, he has imagined The Music Map, The Map of YouTube, The Corporate World Map, and many more. An additional fifty mini-maps of the world display a diverse list of data, such as the number of heavy metal bands per capita, the probability of getting struck by lightning, average penis length, NSA surveillance rate, and number of tractors per 1,000 inhabitants.

Extensively mapping various subjects from all corners of our modern civilization, Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps is a fresh and thoughtful look at Western culture that will spark conversation and continually surprise and fascinate readers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 071818114X
• ISBN 13: 9780718181147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: Vargic Martin