1960s infographic studio
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- Baskerville
Can anyone remember the name of a studio that existed in the 1960s/70s and pinoeered the use of pictograms in information graphics eg. graphs where the bars were made up of a pictogram of a man stacked up (each man represents 100,000 of population – that kind of thing)
the name escapes me. Could have ISO in the name or INFO. They were very famous
thanks!
- Baskerville0
well done everyone! You're all a bottomless pit of design knowledge.
Incase you were interested I was looking for Isotype http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso…
- uncle_helv0
Got any links, or more information Baskerville?, you've got me all juiced up and hungry for the verse!!
- snakefinger0
Isotype is the name of a system, not a 60s design studio. Who's the bottomless pit now, huh? HUH?
- non0
ouch!
- Crouwel0
well done everyone! You're all a bottomless pit of design knowledge.
Incase you were interested I was looking for Isotype en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Baskerville
(May 25 06, 06:02)ISOTYPE is NOT a compan y, smartie.
- Crouwel0
yeah, basically what snakefinger said!
- Baskerville0
I know it's not a company, in my head it was a studio but what I meant was the poeple who first used isotype and made the system and its style famous.
Essentially this is the kind of thing I was looking for:
http://translate.google.com/tran…
Generally anyone called Otto or Otl was important in its use, I've found