The first map picture of page 17 seems to show all types of cancer for white females and is age-adjusted rate by country for the years 1950-1969. Just looking at the picture completely confuses me. It tells me at the bottom left what it is suppose to show, but I don’t see how it shows it. All I see is the United States shown with grey and black marks around certain parts of the country. The least the picture could do is label the colors to show what they suppose to mean. I think that there are too many types of designs that have me paying attention to the aesthetics other than the information. Mostly, this isn’t a problem for me because I like to look at nice things more than reading what’s on the nice things. An example would probably be statues or monuments. I think that people pay more attention to how nice the statue looks more than the information written on the bottom of it.

Edward R. Tufte, “Graphical Excellence,”

In Edward R. Trufte, “Graphical Excellence” he talks about written information goes with pictorial information. An example of that would be his maps. There are written statistic information but that doesn’t catch our attention more than the pictorial design (maps).

The image that caught my interest would be his maps of cancer states. It showed that a lot of people from north east are diagnosed with cancer. The missing information would be that he only based it on adult white male and females. There are different races beside white that might have been diagnosed with cancer during that time period. He also didn’t include any children or teens. I think the map would have worked must better if all these information was incorporated inside too.

A design that would catch my eye more than the it’s information would be the cover of manga books. There are so many manga books out there, it is almost impossible to know the story line of everything. When I’m at the book store, I would look at the cover of the book and if it interest me, then I would read what the story line is about before purchasing.