Oliver Uberti: “London: The Information Capital” Wins British Cartographic Society Awards

London: The Information Capital, a book by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti (BFA 2003), was awarded three prizes at the 2015 British Cartographic Society (BCS) awards: ​“The Stanfords Award for Printed Mapping”, ​“The John C. Bartholomew Award for Thematic Mapping” and the top prize ​“BCS Award” for Best Overall. 

The British Cartographic Society awards were created to encourage and showcase excellence in cartography.

Combining data with stunning design, the new book ​“London: The Information Capital” shows us a city as we’ve never seen it before – from who lives the longest to how flights stack over Heathrow, from ​“The Knowledge” of a cabbie to the territories of London’s thirteen football tribes. The result? One hundred portraits of an old city in a very new way.

Uberti designed and co-wrote the 240-page book, Penguin’s 5^th best-selling hardback non-fiction title for 2014. Says Uberti, ​“As an American, I couldn’t believe how much data is publicly available online in the UK and how easy it is to access it. I felt like a sculptor in a quarry.”

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