I LOVE this post! I am a designer at a human development nonprofit with beneficiaries all over the world. We have had many discussions about map projections and we always want to use the Gall-Peters projection which is more accurate (read: doesn’t make Africa seem “less important” by making it artificially smaller in proportion to other continents). Somehow, we generally default to Mercator anyway because it’s more “pleasing” to us based on what we’ve become accustomed to. Interesting stuff!
Swissmiss is an online garden Tina Roth Eisenberg started in 2005 and has lovingly tended to ever since.
Besides swissmiss, Tina founded and runs TeuxDeux, CreativeMornings and her Brooklyn based co-working community Friends Work Here. (She also started Tattly which was recently adopted by BIC)
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I LOVE this post! I am a designer at a human development nonprofit with beneficiaries all over the world. We have had many discussions about map projections and we always want to use the Gall-Peters projection which is more accurate (read: doesn’t make Africa seem “less important” by making it artificially smaller in proportion to other continents). Somehow, we generally default to Mercator anyway because it’s more “pleasing” to us based on what we’ve become accustomed to. Interesting stuff!
Dec 11th, 2016 / 11:12 pm