Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Exercise Four: Read a Map

You have been assigned a map. In one concise paragraph, deconstruct its strategies for conveying information for the class, using the vocabulary introduced in Exercise Three, as well as any new vocabulary you've learned from reading Universal Principles of Design (hint: this is bonus mark territory). Maps contain many visual elements: focus on one or two strategies only.

Conclude with a statement describing your visceral reaction to the map: does this map work for you? Why, or why not? Is this reaction solely a product of the success or failure of the map to convey information, or are there other factors at play?

Provide at least three images of your map: one of the folded map, one of the entire map, and one detail that shows the strategies in question.

Exercise Four is due on Sunday, February 3 at 11:59PM. Please do not lose or damage my maps!

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