Dutch Atlas Wins Top Design Prize

I don’t follow the design world; I made the requisite maps for my geography degrees and work, but now feel most at home with words. Still, an article on design in the New York Times did catch my eye; specifically this bit in the Fashion section:

Joost Grootens, a Dutch designer. By reassessing the type of information we might like to find in an atlas, and experimenting with different ways of depicting it, Mr. Grootens has created a beautiful series of books that give us a richer, clearer picture of the places we are looking up than we ever could hope to find on the Internet.

Thanks to his latest book, the Vinex Atlas, Mr. Grootens on Sunday was awarded the Netherlands’ most prestigious design award, the Rotterdam Design Prize.

The article goes on to discuss design in The Netherlands but I set off to look at the book, which was published in 2008. Very nice. It won another book award, too.