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The World in Isotype

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Otto Neurath and Gerd Arntz collaborated on Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education).  Isotype is a system of pictograms meant to communicate information concerning the economy, politics, and society by using simple images.  Many of the 4,000 signs designed by Arntz can be seen at the Gerd [...]