1. Inspiration

2. The following image is by Massey University design student Claudia Bergsdorf. Her idea is based on comparing books to old attics, in that they are often forgotten about but when visited are full of surprises and hidden treasures.

4. The following image is by Massey University design student Holly Slade. Her idea is based on the analogy that real life is like a prison and books allow us to escape from it.

6. The following image is by Massey University design student Jasmine Wong. Her idea is based on the analogy that books are like magic carpets. They can take you wherever you want to go.

8. Thank you to Mike McAuley, Subject Leader, Visual Narrative, College of Creative Arts, Institute of Communication Design, Wellington Campus, Massey University, for obtaining students’ permission to use these images. Please check back soon for more images, which form part of Mike’s PhD research into written words and the processes students go through in interpreting them into pictures. The text students had to illustrate was two paragraphs from an Arthur Conan Doyle essay titled 'Through the Magic Door'. Students were asked to summarise the text into a few sentences and then describe it to a similar situation. The theoretical background relates to 'analogical reasoning' and how it can be used as a creative tool.