“Es mejor recordar imágenes simplificadas que olvidar figuras exactas”. Ver la web oficial del Gerd Arnzt web archive Isotype Pueden verse los iconos creados por Gerd Arntz, las infografías creadas…
« Face à la pléthore d’activités d’Otto Neurath, il est difficile de lui donner un titre simple : l’appeler ‹ philosophe › passerait à côté de certaines de ses activités tout comme ‹ ingénieur soci…
Discussing the charts in the Book Series ‘America & Britain’ There’s much to be told in the story of the Isotype, yet despite a great deal of...
The story of a 1930s system for capturing quantitative information in pictograms that shaped much of today’s visual language.
« Face à la pléthore d’activités d’Otto Neurath, il est difficile de lui donner un titre simple : l’appeler ‹ philosophe › passerait à côté de certaines de ses activités tout comme ‹ ingénieur soci…
“Words divide, pictures unite,” or so went the motto of Isotype’s founder, the philosopher and sociologist, Otto Neurath. From its origins in 1920s Vienna, Isotype pioneered the use of simple, pictorial graphics to communicate complex information to a broad audience. The icons were meant to cross na
There’s much to be told in the story of the Isotype.
The father of the Isotype
There’s much to be told in the story of the Isotype.
Although the work of Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) is usually associated with the information graphic system known as Isotype (International Sys...
There’s much to be told in the story of the Isotype.
ISOTYPE Good infographics for statistical matters do not only need diagrams (like histograms or bar charts) but also lots of icons and symbols helping to illustrate the topic. A pioneer in this fie…
“Words divide, pictures unite!”
ISOTYPE – the International System Of TYpographic Picture Education The International System Of TYpographic Picture Education was developed by the Viennese social scientist and philosopher Otto Neu…
ピクトグラムは人類最初の絵として知られる、フランスのラスコーやスペインのアルタミラに代表される洞窟壁画にその起源を辿ることもできます。もしかしたら、現代人の祖先であるホモ･サピエンスは、進化の過程で枝分かれしたネアンデルタール人と壁画を通じてコミュニケーションをとったかも？*しれません。
My conceit, when I started making infographics, was simple. I believed this was a *new way* of expressing and visualizing information, a...
How long has mankind dreamed of an international language? The first answer that comes to mind, of course, dates that dream to the time of the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel.
Gerd Arntz designed over 4000 pictograms, for all aspects of life, between 1929-1965. Today we found another excellent archive of print samples and development. Isotype was an acronym of International System Of TYpographic Picture Education.
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A new book spotlights the creation and many applications of Isotype, the modernist visual language that lives on in signage all around us.
