Founded in 2012, Quartz has become one of the fastest growing business news brands in the world. Usually using the web, Quartz decided to reach its audience this time through print. The book, The Objects that Power the Global Economy, tells the story of the global economy with ten objects. Printed in Italy on 136 pages of Salzer Touch, Magno Volume and Cyclus Offset paper and embossed in a foil hardcover, the book also uses data visualization, photography, watercolor paintings and illustrations to provide rich visual and interactive storytelling. Readers can mine bitcoin by hand, explore a foldout map of all the satellites orbiting earth and study a periodic table of the elements necessary to build new technologies.

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