Otto Neurath

Recent articles about Otto Neurath

Reputations: Irma Boom

Issue 88, Summer 2014

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‘I compare my work to architecture. I don’t build villas, I build social housing. The books are industrially made and they need to be made very well. I am all for industrial production. I hate one-offs. On one book you can do anything, but if you do a print run, that is a challenge. It’s never art. Never, never, never.’

Willem Sandberg: Warm printing

Issue 25, Summer 1997

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The Dutch pioneer’s catalogues for the Stedelijk show a tactile use of sensual materials and experimental typography

Otto Neurath

Issue 19, Winter 1995

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Otto Neurath’s 1936 book was the fullest exposition of his vision as an international visual language

Icons for the people

Issue 78, Winter 2010

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A new V&A display and a book trace the method of visualising data pioneered by Otto Neurath in the 1920s

Recent blog posts about Otto Neurath

Drawing up Modern man

4 December 2018
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Information design, Visual culture

Neurath and Kahn – the impresarios of early twentieth-century infographics. Review of Image Factories. Infographics 1920-1945
Image Factories. Infographics 1920-1945’s humble appearance belies its contents – a wealth of precious knowledge…

Charts change minds

13 June 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Information design

Description of the slave ship Brookes, 1788 – infodesign history in Eye 82
Eighteenth-century abolitionists used every propaganda tool in the book, but one of their most widely circulated…