One of the first and best rules in cartographic design is to beg, borrow, or steal good design. Many good ideas have already been had, and there's no point in ignoring them.
Today, I got a note from one of our senior folks in sales and marketing at ESRI who had been rightfully accosted by one of our customers over some maps that appeared in an ESRI brochure called Government Matters. Several pages in there are a series of U.S. county level demographic maps with Alaska and Hawaii un-artfully integrated into northern Mexico.
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