Tuesday, 11 May 2010

www.airtoons.com

Airtoons is a website which doesn't have much function except to make fun of the airline safety card instructional images.
The website started when the creator was taking a flight and chose to read the safety card from the pocket of the seat in front. He saw this image:


And wondered why there was a picture with no text that looked like a man eating licorice out of his life vest. He realised after a while that it was a tube to blow in and inflate the vest, but looked through other images an found many similarly confusing pictures. 
After this he decided to make a website featuring many pictures similar to this one which he has captioned just as the in the image above. 




While looking on this website I also found these instructional images which were released by the government when a nuclear terrorist attack looked imminent. It is interesting to see the exact same look and feel as the plane safety cards but in a completely unrelated context.
This could be really useful as a reference point when I start to experiment with my own versions of informational images.

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