Graphic Designer
ed. by Ed Annink and Max Bruinsma
- Author(s)
- Flip Bool, Gert Dumbar, Paul Mijksenaar, ...[et al.]
- Editor(s)
- Ed Annink, Max Bruinsma
- Publication
- Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2010
- Scope
- 288 Pages, illustrated, 25 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789064507632
As a politically engaged graphic artist and designer Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) portrayed the world in wood and linoleum cuts. During the 1920s, he conveyed his vision on social wrongs and the rise of Nazism in Germany in his prints. He did this in such a simple, direct style that anyone - regardless of their education and nationality - was able to understand his images. This prompted the Viennese social scientist Otto Neurath (1882-1945) to ask him to design the symbols for the ’International system Of Typographic Picture Education’ (ISOTYPE). We still see their traces around us on a daily basis: in pictograms featured on objects ranging from traffic signs to gameboys, and in information graphics.
- Person as subject
- Otto Neurath, Gerd Arntz
- Keywords
- sociology , information design , aesthetics - critical aesthetics , politics
- Stroom project
- After Neurath
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 1: Informatievormgeving
- Remarks
- Incl. Bibliographical References
