Links and Arrows
It was honestly refreshing to see Futura being used in a typographically sound way to depict a flowchart of Cubism and Abstract Art through time. The arrows act as immediate connectors between two different topics and the arrows push the viewer’s eye down to the title at the bottom, traveling through time visual while traveling through time actually (neato). I was at first somewhat hoping the cover would have been DaDa inspired and the arrows in the end have no meaning but I found it ingenious that the flow of arrows actually pertained to how one would experience a museum. The maps lack of information in order to understand it without prior knowledge is a bit frustrating. There is no explanation as to how the relationships between the different topics came to be or that the relationships differentiate at all. In this instance the viewer is allowed to make assumptions because there is little evidence to make sound conclusions. The cover is pretty type set with good intentions. The reading goes on to discuss how arrows and lines can be used to create relationships between nouns, essentially creating new meaning in comparison to viewing them individually. The meaning of the arrow itself is generic and is simply a visual marker of a shift in thinking. The means for distinction in line weight within the cartographic legends is evident. While trying to identify these roads separately one has to also keep in mind that they are all roads and should still appear to be within the same style. The problem also arises when there is too much clutter involved when trying to fit more information, such as the legend on the left in the reading. It makes sense when only seen in the legend but when all of the cluttered lines are set into place at once on the map it could/will create visual clutter.
“The correct reading of lines on a map, like words in a sentence, generally makes sense in context. “
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