The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts

  • Jonathan Barnbrook
TLBoSGF was part of the inaugural book launch by new publishing house Fiell. The book – which we compiled, edited and designed – is a powerful visual manifesto highlighting the inequalities of rampant globalisation. Our intention was to create a thought provoking and visually exiting book, which can be returned to again and again. It was also important for us to avoid any visual clichés and give equal weight to a broad range of subjects. To do this we took the theme of interconnectivity and the idea that statistics cannot be looked at in isolation – they are always part of a bigger picture. The book is structured so that each of the eight chapters directly relate to the preceding and succeeding chapter, and each fact relates in some way to the preceding and succeeding fact. Some facts are also connected to other parts of the book by a series of nodes and links which allow the reader to navigate in a non-linear fashion, similar to that of the internet.