Discussion posts week 2

Non-Designer’s Design Book
1) Eliminate Times New Roman, Arial/Helvetica, and Sand from font choices.
Shriver
2) Students took direct offense to what they felt the author inferred about them in the “Don’t Lose a Friend to Drugs” brochure.
Barton and Barton
3) Cartographers use “representational strategies” to show “dominate interests.” Examples include, on Islamic maps Mecca is at the center and on Christian world maps “Jerusalem is placed as the ‘true’ centre of the world” (Harley).

Question: How do we come up with new map design methodologies when there is always going to be bias?