Gerd Arntz
Gerd Arntz
Graphic Designer
ed. by Ed Annink and Max Bruinsma

Auteur(s)
Flip Bool, Gert Dumbar, Paul Mijksenaar, ...[et al.]
Editor(s)
Ed Annink, Max Bruinsma
Uitgever
Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2010
Omvang
288 p., geïllustreerd, 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.


Persoon als onderwerp
Otto Neurath, Gerd Arntz
Trefwoorden
sociology , information design , aesthetics - critical aesthetics , politics
Stroom project
After Neurath
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 11 - 1: Informatievormgeving
Opmerkingen
Incl. Bibliographical References