Gallery: A Book of Experimental Maps Designed to Get You Lost
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*Where You Are* is a book of 16 maps created by writers, artists and thinkers. *Image: Visual Editions*
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It's the fifth book made by Visual Editions, a London-based publishing house that focuses on visual storytelling. *Image: Visual Editions*
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*Where You Are* takes a completely new form. *Image: Visual Editions*
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The idea for *Where You Are* began after Gerber and Iversen came to the realization that we’re constantly mapping our lives, even if we don’t know it. *Image: Visual Editions*
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Joe Dunthrone's literary map was an attempt to illustrate the influences, anxieties, past failures, distractions, etc. of writing a novel. *Image: Visual Editions*
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Dunthorne's map, showing Twitter next to the Unread Triangle, where stories we mean to read go to disappear forever. *Image: Visual Editions*
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Artists and writers were asked to come up with their personal map. Some like Adam Thirlwell, created an actual map. His, a maps of places he's nearly been to, is a reflection on the unfinished and unrealized hopes, desires and projects we all have in our lives. *Image: Visual Editions*
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Copy from Thirwell's book. *Image: Visual Editions*
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John Simpson's *Nature's Valley* documents his trip through Africa. *Image: Visual Editions*
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Alain de Botton's story is a meditation on the pleasure of maps and the joy we can get from reading them. *Image: Visual Editions*
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Bibliothèque designed the maps, and The Workers created the interactive website. *Image: Visual Editions*
