Adam Dant

Explore the myths, legends and folklore of London in this stunning new collection of fine art maps from leading British artist Adam Dant. Maps of London Myth and Legend provides an idiosyncratic take on London’s history in an all-new collection of intricate, absorbing and beautiful maps. Giving a unique view of London, artist and cartographer Adam Dant surveys the city’s past, present and future from his studio in the East End. Beautiful, hugely imaginative and packed with eye-catching detail, his astonishing maps offer a compelling view of the capital’s history, lore and myths. Highlights include: Creatures of London Legend, including Father Thames, the Barbican minotaur and the tiger of Edgware Londog, a canine cartography of the capital Ghosts of Olde London, such as the clown Grimaldi, whose disembodied face is said to float around the Theatre Royal Hell is the Northern Line, Dante’s inferno transposed onto the London Underground as a Tube ride descent through the circles of hell according to station depth Lies to Tell Tourists, for example that the River Thames has the same alcohol content as London Pride ale Accompanying text by the artist gives the background to each cartographic artwork, revealing his inspirations and artistic process and outlining the folkloric tales that inspired them. This beautiful collection offers a unique view of our history and life today, and is perfect for London enthusiasts, art lovers, folklore fanatics and history buffs alike. Reproduced in large format, the maps invite the reader to study all the astonishing and densely packed detail within, guaranteeing hours of happy browsing.

A timely, large-format collection of fine art maps from Adam Dant, looking at the fractious world of politics. Adam Dant’s Political Maps is an all-new collection of this highly regarded artist’s intricate, absorbing and beautiful maps, this time focused on the world of politics. Informed by his experiences as the official artist of the UK general election in 2015, these glorious works of art are amusing and subversive, hugely imaginative and packed with eye-catching detail. Themes range across the spectrum of British and global politics past and present, bringing in recent political upheavals (‘Stop That Brexit’) and current issues such as the controversy around certain statues (‘Iconoclastic London’), alongside more timeless subjects like a map of US presidents (‘Presidents of the United States of America’), and, of course, the pandemic (‘Viral London’). Other highlights include: ·Johnson’s London: Notorious places associated with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, including all the houses he has ever lived in ·New York Tawk: A visualisation of New York City through a century of its slang ·British Left Groups: A fascinating history of left-wing parties and pressure groups through the decades ·Quitting Europe: Brexit encapsulated in exotic European cigarette packets from the artist’s youth Witty, acerbic and intelligent, this unique collection will delight history enthusiasts, art lovers and politics buffs of all persuasions, and its large format guarantees hours of happy browsing of the densely packed detail Adam Dant brings to all his images.

In this beautiful and unique combination of art and science, this stunningly detailed book examines how the rules of science govern the the world around us, from the rooms in our houses to the planet, the solar system and the universe itself! The Universe is inconceivably complex. Its component parts though follow a set of unbreakable laws that have somehow been coded into their very fabric since the beginning of time. These laws play out in different ways at different scales, giving rise to the familiar phenomena of everyday life – as well as the unfamiliar abstract goings-on outside our experience and awareness. Understanding these laws may seem a daunting task, until now.How it All Works illustrates simply how the most interesting and complex named scientific laws and phenomena affect everyone’s daily lives. Using hyper-detailed scene illustrations from the incredible award-winning artist Adam Dant, we start small, with the illustrated science inside your kitchen, before expanding outwards to encompass your garden, street, city, continent, planet, solar system, galaxy and eventually the whole universe.With tiny details pulled out from visually stunning and intricate scene, learn how:Kirchhoff’s Law affects how you charge your phone, Newton’s Law of Cooling helps you make your coffee just the right temperature to drink, How the rules of antimatter are used in hospitals for medical imaging, How Cassie's law keeps ducks dry,How glaciation shapes the ladscapes around us, How thermohaline circulation dictates our weather, and How quantum tunnelling influences the nuclear fusion in our sun, and Wien’s Law determines its colour. This book will astound and inform in equal measure, with each principle drawn into the scene and explained with clarity by leading science writer Brian Clegg. With a reference section at the back as well as profiles of the key figures who have helped shape our understanding of these key principles, from Lynn Margulis and Richard Feynman to Marie Curie, Michael Faraday,Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, this beautiful and unique visual examination of the rules of science is an must-have book for anyone who wants to understand the physics, chemistry and biology of the world around us!

A spectacular, large-format collection of Adam Dant’s fine art maps giving a unique view of our history and life today. Artist and cartographer Adam Dant surveys London’s past, present and future from his studio in the East End. Beautiful, witty and subversive, his astonishing maps offer a compelling view of history, lore, language and life in the capital and beyond. Traversed by a plethora of colourful characters including William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mary Wollstonecraft and Barbara Windsor, Adam Dant’s maps extend from the shipwrecks on the bed of the Thames to the stars in the sky over Soho. Along the way, he captures all the rich traditions in the capital, from brawls and buried treasure to gin and gentlemen’s clubs. Accompanying text by the artist gives the background to each of the handsome cartographic artworks, revealing his inspirations and artistic process and outlining his cultural allusions. Reproduced in large format, the maps invite the reader to study all the astonishing and often hilarious details within, offering hours of fascination for the curious. Published in conjunction with the Spitalfields Life blog, Maps of London & Beyond includes an extensive interview with Adam Dant by the blog’s founder The Gentle Author.