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University of Virginia Press

The Atlas of Design is a captivating collection that showcases the world's most beautiful and intriguing cartographic design. Published every two years, this volume features a curated selection of full-color maps chosen through a worldwide competition and judged by an expert panel, with essays by the map makers. Volume 1, originally released in 2012, was reformatted in a second edition in 2019 to match the horizontal orientation of the subsequent volumes in the series. Spanning 94 pages, this atlas offers a visually stunning exploration of maps and essays, accompanied by an introduction by Timothy Wallace and Daniel Huffman.

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