Cartographic Design in ArcGis Pro

For Module 3 we were tasked with creating a map of public schools in Ward 7, Washington D.C. using Gestalt's principles of Visual Hierarchy, Contrast, Figure Ground, and Balance. We were given certain guidelines to follow as what we need to include in our map and layout, above is the map I created that has everything that we were tasked to create and includes everything that the guidelines state. For this project I used the clip tool to clip all the schools located in ward 7 so that I could work with that data specifically and then used unique symbols to display the different school levels using different size and color for each level. This is an example of visual hierarchy and contrast. I then messed with the colors of roads to make them easier to to see and clipped the roads that weren't in ward 7 because it would make the map less busy, this is an example of contrast and figure grounding. The inset map and main map are lighter colors making them easily identifiable to the user which is another example of figure grounding. I used the principle of balance at the end by making the map look balanced with as least empty space and good color balance. Title and legend are it's own colors which is another example of visual hierarchy. I added curved text to follow the river since it was the only water feature. Labeled neighborhoods by going into attribute table and choosing the neighbor hood that I wanted to represent certain areas located in Ward 7.