1. Virgin Atlantic Safety Card
http://www.vtype.co.uk/virgin-atlantic-inflight-safety-cards/
Over spring break, I traveled to London, England with Virgin Atlantic Airlines. Before take-off, flight attendants advise passengers to review the Virgin Atlantic safety cards in the pocket on the seat in front of them. The card is covered from cover to cover in cartoon illustrations of people buckling seat belts, inflating life vests and sliding down slides extending from the aircraft in the event of an emergency. Because the airline is international and people of all cultures and languages utilize the airline, the card contains little text and replaces textual explanation with colorful and clearly explanatory images. It is vital that passengers, regardless of age or language, understand the information on the cards, so the images are very clear and easy to understand.
2. Chart of Deaths in Shakespearean Tragedies
http://flavorwire.com/newswire/a-visual-crash-course-in-all-the-deaths-in-shakespeares-tragedies
For any Shakespeare lover, this chart of tragedy deaths is highly-organized and hilarious entertainment. Starting with the most well-known Shakespearean tragedies (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, etc.) at the top, the chart breaks down each tragedy by death. Each death is represented by a stick figure of a male or female character in addition to specific characteristics pertaining to the individual death. Below the stick figure is a brief description of the death (“Polonius is stabbed through a curtain”). For the most part, the stick figures are arranged in the actual order of deaths in the corresponding tragedy, but at times, they are organized in order of ‘least eventful’ to ‘most extraordinary.’ The chart ends with a bonus: perhaps the most famous and funniest deaths of all, “Antigonus Exits, Pursued by a Bear,” from A Winter’s Tale.
Jenna Cormey 