Forget the maps that you once used in your 7th grade geography course. Consider them dated. The newest form of design for maps these days is something that surpasses their old 2-D ways. The Dymaxion Map is a 3-D map that is specially designed to set people's perspectives back to the right way of looking at things when it comes to understanding the globe. For so long, 2-D maps have been slowly distorting the spatial relationship between earth's contents.
"Although maps are often portrayed as an objective spatial basis on which 'map' data, they are always about perspective and the change of it:which country is in the center, where does most projection-distortion occur, which colors are used,...As tools of communication, they can easily become tools of manipulation, allowing one to lie with maps as easily as with statistics. Yet, put in a positive sense they can convey and enhance complex messages in a powerful visual way and shift people's perspective on even abstract developments through spatial contextualization."
Buckminster Fuller is the designer of the Dymaxion Map.
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