Mapping

Benefits and Uses
I think I already gave away the benefits of mind mapping and why mind maps work. Basically, mind mapping avoids dull, linear thinking, jogging your creativity and making note taking fun again.
But what can we use mind maps for?
• Note taking
• Brainstorming (individually or in groups)
• Problem solving
• Studying and memorization
• Planning
• Researching and consolidating information from multiple sources
• Presenting information
• Gaining insight on complex subjects
• Jogging your creativity

How to Draw a Mind Map
Drawing a mind map is as simple as 1-2-3:
• Start in the middle of a blank page, writing or drawing the idea you intend to develop. I would suggest that you use the page in landscape orientation.
• Develop the related subtopics around this central topic, connecting each of them to the centre with a line.
• Repeat the same process for the subtopics, generating lower-level subtopics as you see fit, connecting each of those to the corresponding subtopic.

Luciano Passuello, 2007, What is Mind Mapping? , http://litemind.com/what-is-mind-mapping/, Date accessed July, 2010

Internet Mapping

The Internet Mapping Project was started at Bell Labs in the summer of 1998. Its goal is to acquire and save Internet topological data over a long period of time. This data has been used in the study of routing problems and changes, DDoS attacks, and graph theory.

Bill Cheswick, 1998, Internet Mapping Project: Map gallery, http://www.cheswick.com/ches/map/gallery/index.html, Date accessed July, 2010

Facial reflex zones

This face map shows certain areas of the face that directly correlate with the body. According to Eastern medicine, professional massage in certain areas of the face can release toxins by concentrating on specific areas to create better health.

Jim Whimpey, 2010, Face mapping – the inside scoop, http://bewellnowjournal.com/, Date accessed July, 2010

Our Face

Image from a photography studio, I think it will help me create face maps. Thewhole face is divided into sections and using the same technique I can created dotted face map.

Take 2 Hair and Photography Studio, Dermalogica Fame Mapping, http://www.take2studio.co.uk/wp/?page_id=77, Date accessed July, 2010

Design stage 1

Festival

While browsing the Internet came across this which made me feel I’m not the only one mapping things around infect this is a flyer to a festival. Feels like I found myself a community.

Luma Launisch, 2007, Some flyers: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=103770349&blogId=267738731, Date accessed July, 2010.

Supernova for iPad Demo Gallery

Link to a video on Supernova http://glennmarshall.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/supernova-for-ipad-demo-gallery/