Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Visualizing big ideas
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Do you ever struggle to find the perfect description when trying to convey an idea?
Like a foggy picture, adjectives and modifiers fail to depict
what's in your mind. Illustrators often face a similar challenge,
especially when attempting to explain complex and difficult concepts.
Sometimes the imagery is intangible or way too complicated to explain with a picture.
Although complex information could be relayed using charts and stats,
this could get pretty boring. Instead, just like when writing an essay
to describe, for example, emotions, illustrators can use visual metaphors
to bring to life difficult concepts. Just as a written metaphor is a description
that relates one object to another, a visual metaphor uses imagery to suggest
