Visual metaphors

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the words how to use visual metaphor to evoke emotion on an image of flowers

How can you use visual metaphor to evoke emotion? Host Alli Torban dives into specific ways to find a visual metaphor that's right for your data! Featured data viz by Valentina D'Efilippo models how to use visual metaphor to create a beautiful, meaningful, and memorable data viz. #dataviz #datavisualization

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an advertisement for frost toothpaste featuring two white dices with black dots on them

I think this overall is a clever idea for an ad. The big picture of the teeth as dice really caught my attention. It has a serious tone with the choice of color and reflect the seriousness of the situation that its trying to convey. The crest tube and box outline and lead you eye to the smaller text. The hierarchy of text works well too, having the slogan first intrigues the reader to keep reading.

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a man carrying a giant computer keyboard on his back with the word ctrl written on it

Meet Sergio Ingravalle, a freelance illustrator from Germany. Following a memorable five-month journey from Sydney to Beijing, he was inspired to embark on a new artistic path – illustration. This led to the creation of his captivating series, "Mindshots".

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two coffee cups and saucers with the words creative metaphores

Exercise: Imagine creative metaphors for these concepts. Metaphors are potent shortcuts to instant and memorable understanding through comparison. A metaphor states that something is something else without using the word "like" or "as." They say this "is" that, "was" that or "are" that. It lets you transfer the qualities of one thing directly to another.

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