W5.10 Telling the Story Through Pictograms

The amazing thing about pictograms is that they are universal, so anyone should be able to understand the stories you tell through them. Here the combination of multiple pictograms can create stories which would be universally understood. Language often is a barrier, however, images can solve a language barrier because they allow you to understand no matter what country you are in.

1. Represents a fight, the first pictogram shows someone shooting a bow, then a forest, through which someone is running away from the shot arrow. Having caught up with its victim, the arrow takes the running man down. He is brought to a hospital and he is cured.

2. A man is happy, then he meets a woman and they kiss. Both of them get in touch with toxic waste and suddenly become superheroes. Then there is a bad guy with a knife, threatening people. So they take the bad man down together and get married afterwards.

3. There once was a happy family, then the child grows up and decides to see the world. He takes the airplane and visits, France, India, Japan and Egypt, after which he decides to return home to his loving family. They are finally reunited and happy.

Even though this might not be exactly what you thought, it will have been something along those lines, because the images are so universal.