Bridging 3: Questions for the visual designer
Bridging pieces to move from orientation to practice: a pause to gather ideas and prepare you for getting into your personal mapping practice
This is a Map Room post with a deeper layer available to paid subscribers.
The opening of this piece is free to explore and orient yourself. Further down, additional material is available for those who want more structure, guidance, or time with the practice. You’re welcome to read what’s here now and stop there, or step further in when it feels right. You’re welcome to look around, follow what catches your attention, and moodle, as always.
When we look at a map, especially the less traditional geographical ones, it often feels as though the story simply appears.
But it doesn’t.
Someone made hundreds of small decisions that shape what we notice, how we move through the information and what meaning we take away. What kind of questions does a mapmaker ask when they sit down to make a map, and how can we use this ourselves?
Further down you can read about a famous example of an iconic map that shows this so clearly.
