History and Legacy of Isotype
$44.50
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
2 October 2024
Summary
Decoding the World: A History of Isotype
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book provides a fresh perspective on the early history of Isotype and pictographic communication, with new information about largely unknown episodes throughout its development.
The picture-script Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education), previously conceived as the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics, evolved through numerous publications and exhibitions …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350359062 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350359068 |
| Author: | Christopher Burke, Günther Sandner |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 2 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 156mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Christopher Burke
Christopher Burke is a design historian and Associate Professor in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, UK. He is Research Fellow on the project ‘Isotype: Origin, Development, and Legacy’, based at the University of Vienna, Austria, and he co-curated the exhibition ‘Isotype: International Picture Language’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK. He co-edited Otto Neurath’s autobiography, From Hieroglyphics to Isotype (2010), and the collection Isotype: Design and Contexts 1925 1971 (2013).
Günther Sandner is a political scientist and historian. He is FWF Research Fellow at the Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna, Austria, where he leads the project ‘Isotype: Origin, Development, and Legacy’. He has written numerous essays on the topics of Isotype and logical empiricism and is the author of Otto Neurath, a biography, published in 2014.
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