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Red Riding Hood Re-Envisioned

Friday, March 27th, 2009 | infographics

This is a video infographic re-telling of Red Riding Hood. If you are unsure what infographics are, I believe that they could be defined as conveying information by means of graphics. Sounds very straightforward, but humanity took one of its largest steps forward by writing (and perhaps even speaking) via pictographs. Written Chinese is still pictogramic in nature, though highly formalised.

I’ve often thought about the hours of work that have gone into communicating important messages though infographics, for example the airplane instruction leaflet that tries to prepare the passenger for every eventually in what is basically a one page comic, or the dance routine of the stewardesses and stewards, designed to convey the most important information and negate any language barrier. The possibilities of mis-reading such infographics provides endless mirth, but on the other hand companies like Apple have worked their hardest to make their OS and hardware as intuitive as possible through the medium of infographics.

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