OPENING A WINDOW TO THE WONDERS AROUND US.

This intriguing book by Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick was published in the U.S. at the beginning of the month. It introduces scientific facts by relating them to the metrics of the book. So the book itself is the constant frame of reference.

In the book’s own words: “I am not a book of infographics. I am an informative, interactive experience, in which the data can be touched, felt and understood, with every measurement represented on a 1:1 scale. Every one of my measurements—from the size of my pages, to the height of my type, to the noise I make when slammed shut—embodies a fascinating fact about the universe, down from the very largest scales to the very smallest.”

From Stefanie: “Our overall aim was to create an accessible book that would explain fundamental facts about our world (and universe) to a broad, all-ages readership that might be put off by a book with the words science or data on its cover. We’re proud to have created a data book that only uses the word data twice (in our bios), where it couldn’t be helped!”

And it’s one of the Financial Times’ Best Books of the Year 2020 (Children and Young Adult).

Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2QQ6FAS

A previous post about two of Stefanie’s other collaborative data viz projects, with Giorgia Lupi: wp.me/p7LiLW-2Ip