An Atlas of Es Devlin, the first monograph on the artist Es Devlin, is an experiential publication that encompasses art, activism, theater, poetry, music, dance, opera, and sculpture. Devlin's work is rooted in a lifelong practice of reading and drawing. From sketches in the margins of texts, whether poetry, dramaturgy, song lyrics, opera librettos, climate change reports, or endangered species lists, the technically advanced, collectively imagined universes for which she is world-renowned are created.

Sensitive mini-paintings, paper cut-outs, and small mechanical cardboard models are the seeds of some of the most iconic, large-scale cultural events of recent years, from public sculptures and installations at venues like the Tate Modern, Serpentine, V&A, Barbican, Imperial War Museum, and Lincoln Center, to kinetic stage designs at the Royal Opera House, Royal Ballet, Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, and National Theatre. They also include Olympic ceremonies, Super-Bowl halftime performances, and monumental lit stage sets for artists such as Beyoncé, The Weeknd, U2, Rosalía, Dr Dre, and Kendrick Lamar.

Devlin's work is at once deeply personal and inherently collective. Over the last decade, her artistic practice has engaged with biodiversity, linguistic diversity, and AI-generated collective poetry. She perceives the audience as a temporary society and encourages profound cognitive shifts by inviting public participation in community choral works.

Published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition opening at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York in November 2023, An Atlas of Es Devlin is a unique, sculptural volume of over 900 pages, featuring fold-out pages, cut-outs, and a variety of paper types, including mirrors and transparencies. It contains over 700 color images documenting more than 120 works spanning over 30 years, as well as 50,000 words of text with personal insights from the artist on each artwork, as well as interviews with her collaborators including Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bono, Benedict Cumberbatch, Pharrell Williams, Carlo Rovelli, Brian Eno, Sam Mendes, Alice Rawsthorn, and Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye.

Each book is boxed and includes a die-cut print from an edition of 5000.