This post will be updated if I'll find anymore interesting things on the subject (well, interesting to me at least).
- Back to Geography with this one; I've seen in several places people saying they don't like/understand UV Mapping or unwrapping. Well, I love mapping and had this video by Vox saved. It's short, light, and explains very clearly how projections work, it helped me catch up on the issue. Unwrapping from what I understand, is basically the first part in the video where the guy is fighting the globe. [Edit: UV unwrap equals map projection, is it not?]- This Blender manual has a good demonstration of different projections & their affect on textures, here are just a couple: