Illustrated Stories using Signs and Symbols Case Study of Alternative Media for Visual Storytelling

This paper discusses a new possible way of non-verbal tangible storytelling through a number of prototypes of student s work. The paper forms an initial study of a larger research that focuses on investigating the art of visual storytelling using a pictographic language of different signs and symbols, and employing of different objects/materials to serve as alternative mediums for storytelling. Thus, the paper will present three issues for investigation. These are: firstly, the types of narrations used by the students; secondly, the most favored chosen signs/symbols that were selected to tell the stories; and, finally, the relationship between the stories and the objects chosen for displaying and presenting them.