CONTENIDO: Design: its place in cartography / Clifford H. Wood and C. Peter Keller .-- Challenge and response in cartographic design / D.R. Fraser Taylor -- Geography and cartographic design / John B. Krygier -- You can¿t get here from there: reconstructing the relevancy of design in postmodernism / Nikolas H. Huffman .-- Automated cartography and the human paradigm / William Mackaness -- The practitioner¿s view? a pilot study into empirical knowledge about cartographic design / Michael Wood and Kenneth J. Gilhooly .-- Cartographic complementary: objectives, strategies and examples / Mark Monmonier -- Tactile mapping design and the visually impaired user / Regina Vasconcellos .-- What does that little black rectangle mean? designing maps for the young elementary school child / Jacqueline M. Anderson -- Gender differences in map reading abilities: what do we know? what can we do? / Mark P. Kumler and Barbara P. Buttenfield .-- Design issues to be considered when mapping time / Irina Vasiliev -- Re-examining the cartographic depiction of topography / Roger Wheate .-- Cartographic symbolization requirements for microcomputer-based geographic information systems / Janet E. Mersey .-- An experiment with choropleth maps on a monochrome LCD panel / Matthew McGranagham .-- An evaluation of multivariate, quantitative point symbols for maps / Elisabeth S. Nelson and Patricia Gilmartin .-- Feature matching and the similarity of maps / Robert LLoyd .-- An examination of the effects of task type and map complexity on sequenced and static choropleth maps / David K. Patton and Rex G. Cammack .-- Gestalt theory applied to cartographic text / John A. Belbin -- The logic of map design / Phillip C. Muehrcke -- Advances in cartographic design / C. Peter Keller and Clifford H. Wood