Image Factories. Infographics 1920-1945
Image Factories. Infographics 1920-1945
Fritz Kahn, Otto Neurath et al.
ed. by Helena Doudova, Stephanie Jacobs and Patrick Rössler ; texts by Bernd Stiegler, Vilém Flusser, Otto Neurath

Author(s)
Bernd Stiegler, Vilém Flusser, Otto Neurath
Editor(s)
Helena Doudova, Stephanie Jacobs, Patrick Rössler
Publication
Leipzig : Spector Books, 2018
Scope
176 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.
ISBN
9783959051798

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the newly emerging mass media began circulating an unprecedented volume of information, leading to a huge surge in visualization. The abundance of news required new forms of representation to provide a quick understanding of complex circumstances at a glance: this prompted the invention of infographics as a visual medium. The exhibition Transformer: On Infographics as Media of Modernity is dedicated to the pioneering infographics of Fritz Kahn und Otto Neurath and presents historical material and imagery from 1920 to 1945 along with contemporary infographics and a series of essays. The publication accompanies the exhibition at the German Museum of Books and Writing in the German National Library in Leipzig (8 September 2017 – 7 January 2018.


Person as subject
Fritz Kahn, Otto Neurath
Keywords
sociology , information design , aesthetics - critical aesthetics , politics
Stroom project
After Neurath
Location
Cabinet 11 - 1: Informatievormgeving
Remarks
Incl. Biographies.