Lab Four

Alright then.

Lab 3

welp

An Example of Good Typeface

You really have to see the full size version here. The font and typeface used here in this fantasy map are really well done. The colors and the placement of the typeface adds a lot to the atmospheric qualities of the map. I feel like it's a good example of font used to immerse the viewer into the world that the map is portraying.


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Lab Two!

I enjoy the font ^_^

Lab One

Do you know about the Waterman?

One of the more interesting projections I think is the Waterman Butterfly projection. Some map projections use interruptions to reduce distortion in important regions. The Waterman Butterfly takes it to the extreme! The methodology behind the construction of this projection was to place the globe onto a polyhedron.

I think this is a really interesting projection because it portrays our world to give it a more abstract and philosophical perspective. That we go through our lives having this established conceptual notion that the map is always a rectangle, but then the Waterman Butterfly comes along and challenges that line of thought.  It also looks like, as the name suggest, a butterfly.

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