ABSTRACT
This chapter presents specific ways to use maps and mapping in design. It examines specific ways maps influence design. The chapter discusses examples from various historical periods up to and including recent maps made by design students. Designers across disciplines instrumentalize maps, but this is one of the earliest uses of a drawing technology or map projection in design. The chapter concludes—although the reader is welcome to approach this in any order—with a series of case studies produced by students in a map course taught over the last six years at various institutions. The map is a catalogue of images of a paper cup over a five-minute time period. The paper cup was photographed, then the photograph printed on a transparent film and framed in a slide mount. The map was a video of images projected as a series of overlays and their attendant ambient sound maps.
