Graphic artists are often urban creatures that know the restaurants with the best interiors, the best cocktail offers, the cool local crowd, the underground bars and the streets worth checking out. Naturally, each city is unique. Which is why Graphic Europe was made. It introduces 31 major cities in Europe from the local designers’ perspective. Readers can learn about Budapest through the graphics of Dávid Baráth.

Graphic Europe is an alternative guidebook that, instead of describing the important sights and streets, conveys the atmosphere of a given city through graphics.

The book is not intended for the average tourist, but for those (mainly young people) who are open to new things, and are just as interested in getting lost in the depth of ruin pubs as in uncovering the city's artistic attractions and overlooked secret nooks. Graphic Europe lists restaurants, cultural hotspots, bars and hotels, but not by size or popularity. Each should just have that little something extra, to give you a real taste of the city.

Each city is introduced in 6-8 pages, and readers can learn about the Hungarian capital through the graphics of Dávid Baráth, who graduated at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. He was inspired by the work of László Moholy-Nagy, who also preferred simple graphics and typography.

Therefore, the book is a rather fresh twist on the usual tourist program: in his works, we can see typography and topography, and a mixture of humour and constructivism.

The graphics might seem familiar to those who followed the events of the Design Week in 2009, since the images were exhibited there in the form of large posters there.

Details on where to buy the book can be found on the publisher’s website.