Blind Maps and Blue Dots: The Blurring of the Producer-User Divide in the Production of Visual Information...

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Joost Grootens

Blind Maps and Blue Dots

The Blurring of the Producer-User Divide in the Production of Visual Information

Joost Grootens

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English

Lars Muller Publishers
01 April 2021

Graphic design; Cartography, map-making & projections; Web graphics & design

"On the ever-decreasing distinction between those who produce digital data, those who design its visualisation and those who use it as a new form of cartography.

Mapmaking has been an essential part of human development since ancient times: through the art of cartography, people have been able to record geographical explorations and communicate spatial information in relation to themselves and the land around them, using fixed points and lived experiences as references. In the digital age, maps are just as likely to convey the relationships between individual users and amorphous data as they are to depict the relationships between human beings and the stars and planets above. Blind Maps and Blue Dots examines the impact of the omnipresent computer on current understandings of data visualisation and graphic design, in which the boundaries between producers and users of maps has become increasingly blurred.

This text is structured around three contemporary mapmaking practices: Google Maps\' location function, referred to as the Blue Dot; a global map that displays the physical activity of users of the fitness app Strava; and the ""Situation in Syria"" maps series, a regularly updated map of the Syrian conflict designed by an Amsterdam teenager. Like every other field, graphic design must evolve to reflect the modern world and the needs of its people. Blind Maps and Blue Dots offers a new approach that acknowledges and even encourages the breakdown of the binary between producer and user.

AUTHOR: Joost Grootens is a graphic designer, researcher at Leiden University and program leader of the Information Design Master's degree program at the Design Academy Eindhoven.

SELLING POINTS: .

Interactive possibilities of digital media have fundamentally altered the way maps are created and used .

This study investigates how the users of online mapping services become their creators

47 illustrations"

By: Joost Grootens
Imprint: Lars Muller Publishers
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 300mm, Width: 220mm,
ISBN: 9783037786581
ISBN 10: 3037786582
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 April 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Joost Grootens is a graphic designer, researcher at Leiden University and program leader of the Information Design master at Design Academy Eindhoven. His research addresses the transformation of the fields and practices of graphic design and mapmaking resulting from technological changes in tools to record, create, edit, produce and disseminate visual information.