The challenge was to create a Visually Constructed Language to narrate a self-directed story along with a dictionary of those words to help understand the visual story. I worked on a self-made happy version of Snow White.

The Process

Concept
I decided on remixing the famous story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Inspiration
I was inspired by the Chinese script and their logical translation of visuals to a script. I based my project on the same logic.

Sorting
Once I had my story written, I sorted out the words that would be part of my language into nouns, verbs and adjectives.

Initial Sketches
I started with hand-drawn character sketches - a 5-step derivation process; starting with literal visuals in the first step to visual symbols in the last step.

Grid Formation
While digitalizing these visual symbols, I used a fixed grid as base, to differentiate the nouns, verbs and adjectives from each other. This grid also provided a sense of consistency throughout this newly designed visual language.

All Characters
Finally all the nouns, verbs and adjectives were ready.

Story Execution
The story was executed in 4 posters, each showing an important event of the story. They are as follows:

One day, the Magic Mirror informs the evil Queen that a girl named Snow White is now "the fairest" in the land. The Mirror shows her Snow White’s story.

The Queen’s tears dropped on the snow and lo and behold! What came out of the combination of those tears and snow was a beautiful girl. The Queen could not believe her eyes and named her Snow White.

Snow White recollects that the dwarfs had granted her a wish when she had cleaned their house and cooked them supper for the first time —

“The one who tries to harm you, will fall prey to their own trick.”