Manhole Covers of the World

Amazing discoveries under your feet: The eye-catching design of gully coversYou'll find them all across the world, from Albania, Argentina and Australia to the United States, the Vatican and Vietnam. And yet maybe you've never even noticed them, hiding in plain sight beneath your feet. Manhole covershave been part of our world for thousands of years - intensely practical,functional objects, but at the same time featuring an infinite variety of designs,from austere and minimalist to playful and illustrative. Using a uniformblack-and-white graphic style to precisely recreate manhole covers from 80 countries, this volume provides an insight into the fascinating design languageof these unique objects - and what they reveal about the societies thatproduce them.With poster of the most extraordinary manhole covers!"Being a graphic designer and type aficionado, I couldn't help but notice theenormous variety of manhole cover designs. I wanted to bring that amazingvariety to life in a new way."Bjorn Altmann