Joost Grootens
Dutch, born 1971
Published by 010 Publishers
Dutch, founded c. 1982
Written by Arjen van Susteren
Metropolitan World Atlas
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Joost Grootens
Dutch, born 1971
Published by 010 Publishers
Dutch, founded c. 1982
Written by Arjen van Susteren2005
Metropolitan World Atlas
Joost Grootens Dutch, born 1971 Published by 010 Publishers Dutch, founded c. 1982 Written by Arjen van Susteren →21st Centurypapergraphic design
Date
2005
Medium
Paper
Dimensions
22 × 18 × 3 cm (8 11/16 × 7 1/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of 010 Publishers
Designer Joost Grootens specializes in atlases, borrowing many of the conventions of traditional mapping books, including statistics about population, history, and climate, to work with authors on range of subjects from new urban districts in the Netherlands to the production and distribution chains of the books he designs. To activate the user’s engagement with the places depicted in the atlas, Grootens includes custom graphics and symbols, dynamic color schemes, layouts, and photography. Metropolitan World Atlas, for example, analyses 101 urban centers with a standard set of graphics that allow the reader to make visual comparisons among data sets on each city, including air pollution levels and data trac. In Atlas of the Conflict, information about resources, infrastructure, and borders take on a special gravity as they speak to the many facts, both mundane and complex, that underlie the ongoing struggle in the Middle East.
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