Atlas of Imagined Places: from Lilliput to Gotham City
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Atlas of Imagined Places: from Lilliput to Gotham City
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Each map is enlivened by small colour illustrations, depicting characters and scenes from various sources featured on each map. Fascinating and beautiful, this is an essential book for any popular culture fan and map enthusiast. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
From Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot to superhero Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver’s Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world. By looking at the maps, you’ll find that the revolution at Animal Farm happened next to Winnie the Pooh’s home.I also developed a range of icons and symbols for features such as mountains, lakes, shipwrecks and even 'sky elevators'. Londonist editor-at-large Matt Brown, and co-author Rhys B Davies, have taken the concept to the entire planet in their Atlas of Imagined Places. Locations from film, tv, literature, myths, comics and video games are plotted in a series of beautiful vintage-looking maps. It's the sequel to 2021's award-winning Atlas of Imagined Places, and started out as a Londonist project.
From Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot to the superhero land of Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, this is a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world. Instead, labels set in an open serif typeface mark the rough locations of fictional countries and empires.With a deep love of trivia, he's written and hosted hundreds of quizzes, including events for the Museum of London and Manchester Science Museum, among many others. Whole fictional boroughs such as Walford (Eastenders) and Canley (The Bill) are served by fictional tube stations such as Hobb's End (Quatermass and the Pit) and Vauxhall Cross (Die Another Day).
These delightful Where’s Waldo-esque maps are the creation of freelance artist and map designer, Mike Hall, whose oeuvre includes maps and diagrams of real-life botanic gardens, university campuses and hotel resorts, railways, major cities and even entire countries. However, all text labels are curved or rotated to maintain the sense of curvature in the projections. Davies, compiles thousands of fictional and imaginary locations set in the real world from film, television, literature, myths, comics, computer games and many other historical and modern sources.Phileas Fogg could pop across the road into Grace Brothers, and dalmatians Pongo and Perdita could easily be spooked by the Invisible Man.
The book comes with a full guide to the many sources, with notes on how the locations were sleuthed. Besides the city maps, artfully drawn by illustrator Mike Hall, the book also includes plenty of mini-essays exploring the fiction of the 14 cities. The locations have been painstakingly tracked down, mapped, annotated and wittily divulged by the authors, and an extensive index helps you find them all. Navigate round London's fictional tube network, from Walford East (EastEnders) to Hobbs End (Quatermass).
The unusual distorted projection of this map was created by adapting a segment of an azimuthal map centred on the North Pole; this allowed me to fit in the entirety of Canada, Greenland and the Arctic comfortably across the full width of the double page spread. From Stephen King's Salem's Lot to superhero Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world.
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- EAN: 764486781913
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