Lab 8

Not overjoyed with how this one turned out, kind of had to rush it on the last day due to other classes.
The JPEG has a bunch of white space that I have no idea how to fix, which is weird.

Lab 7

Altering the size of the text in the legend might be a faux pas, I'm not sure, but I think it really adds a sense of weight to the map as well as filling up space in a way that I like.

Lab 6

The color scheme is straight from colorbrewer and marked as "print-friendly" so it looks almost identical on-screen and off it, especially since I worked in CMYK to make sure that the colors would all mix well in ink instead of just on-screen. I have no problems with the way this looks printed versus on screen, although it looks slightly better on screen just because when you look closely at the printed map, you can see some slight printing errors where colors aren't 100% consistent for all of each state, but these are only visible when holding it right up to your face.

I really like the shade of blue that I used for the background, I'm going to have to make sure to file that CMYK number set away somewhere.

Lab 5

I like zoos. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the natural breaks looked a little better in my opinion.

Lab 4

The neatline is way too big, but this is how I turned it in and I'd rather not lie to you good people.