Words Divide Images Unite
ed. by Ed Annink ; text Max Bruinsma
- Author(s)
- Max Bruinsma
- Editor(s)
- Ed Annink
- Publication
- Rotterdam : Veenman Publishers, 2007
- Scope
- 293 Pages, illustrated, 25 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789086901272
The world speaks in about 7000 tongues and countless dialects. For centuries, people have tried to overcome this tower of Babel. For instance by propagating one language or by making a new language, such as Esperanto. But the language which today is best understood world-wide does not consist of words, but of images. A universal visual language was the ideal of two Modernists: the social scientist and philosopher Otto Neurath (1882-1945) and graphic designer Gerd Arntz (1900-1988). In Vienna, from the 1920s onward, they developed more than 4000 icons, which together formed Isotype: a visual language in which important information on society, politics, economy and industry could be summarized, also for those who could not read. This book aims at providing material for the discussion about visual communication tomorrow. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht from November 25th, 2007 till February 11th, 2008. The exhibition was part of Utrecht Manifest, 2e biënnale for Social Design Utrecht, for which Ed Annink was the intendant. This book is based on the exhibition.
- Person as subject
- Paul Mijksenaar, Otto Neurath, Gerd Arntz, Andreas Siekmann ;...[et al.]
- Keywords
- sociology , aesthetics - critical aesthetics , politics , graphic design in public space - information design
- Stroom project
- After Neurath
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 1: Informatievormgeving
- Remarks
based on keyword
