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245 00 $aIsotype :$bdesign and contexts 1925-1971 /$ceditors, Christopher Burke, Eric Kindel, Sue Walker.
260 $aLondon :$bHyphen,$c2013.
300 $a543 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. The Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Wien (Social and economic museum of Vienna), 1925-34 / Christopher Burke -- Die bunte Welt (The vivid world), 1925-40 -- 2. The graphic formation of Isotype, 1925-40 / Robin Kinross -- Original exhibition charts, 1933 -- 3. The atlas Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft (Society and economy), 1930 / Christopher Burke -- 4. Figurative constructivism and sociological graphics / Benjamin Benus -- Photography at the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum -- 5. Picturing Soviet progress: Izostat, 1931-4 / Emma Minns -- 6. Interlude in the Netherlands, 1934-40 -- Wereldverkeer (World trade), 1936 -- International picture language, 1936 -- Basic by Isotype, 1937 -- `Rondom Rembrandt' (Around Rembrandt), 1938 -- Exhibition technique and museum plans, 1938-9 -- 7. Isotype in America: Otto Neurath and Rudolf Modley, 1930-9 / Hisayasu Ihara -- 8. The Isotype Institute, Oxford: war, welfare, and post-war reconstruction, 1941-8.
505 0 $aContents note continued: Social security, 1943 -- Social insurance, 1944 -- `America and Britain', 1943-4 -- `The Soviets and ourselves', 1945-7 -- `The new democracy', 1944-8 -- 9. Animated Isotype on film, 1941-7 / Christopher Burke -- 10. Graphic explanation for children, 1944-71 / Sue Walker -- Future Books & Future magazine, 1946-52 -- British Council Study Boxes, 1950-1 -- 11. Isotype in Africa, 1952-8 / Eric Kindel -- 12. Pictogram design: Vienna and beyond / Christopher Burke -- APPENDICES -- Otto Neurath, `Social and economic museum of Vienna', 1925 -- Marie Reidemeister, `The modern hieroglyphic script', 1928 -- Marie Neurath, `Social and economic museum of Vienna, 1925-1934', 1978.
520 $aAustrian sociologist Otto Neurath developed the Isotype system of pictograms in the early 1930s as a way to communicate complex information in visual form. Appearing in a variety of media, including books, posters, and films, it was designed to inform ordinary citizens about their place in the world.
650 0 $aIsotype (Picture language)
650 0 $aSigns and symbols.
650 7 $aGeneral.$2ukslc
700 1 $aBurke, Christopher,$d1967-
700 1 $aKindel, Eric.
700 1 $aWalker, Sue,$d1954-
700 1 $aBurke, Christopher,$d1967-$eeditor.
700 1 $aKindel, Eric,$eeditor.
700 1 $aWalker, Sue,$d1954-$eeditor.
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988 $a20140130
049 $aHFLA
906 $0OCLC