{"id":23266,"date":"2013-12-10T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23266"},"modified":"2013-12-10T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T14:28:09","slug":"origins-of-the-infographic-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/origins-of-the-infographic-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Origins of the &#8220;infographic&#8221; plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Tim Harford says, &#8220;So it&#8217;s HIS fault&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>So it&#39;s HIS fault. MT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brainpicker\">@brainpicker<\/a>: Otto Neurath, godfather of the pictograms that populate modern infographicsy: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/L0L2UbySvs\">http:\/\/t.co\/L0L2UbySvs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Harford (@TimHarford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimHarford\/statuses\/410405352531050496\">December 10, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 1930s, Austrian sociologist, philosopher and curator Otto Neurath and his wife Marie pioneered ISOTYPE \u2014 the International System Of TYpographic Picture Education, a new visual language for capturing quantitative information in pictograms, sparking the golden age of infographics in print.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Transformer: Principles of Making Isotype Charts<\/em> is the first English-language volume to capture the story of Isotype, an essential foundation for our modern visual language dominated by pictograms in everything from bathroom signage to computer interfaces to GOOD\u2019s acclaimed Transparencies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Isotype1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Isotype1.jpg\" alt=\"Isotype1\" width=\"550\" height=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Isotype1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Isotype1-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Isotype1-423x600.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The real cherry on top is a previously unpublished essay by Marie Neurath, who was very much on par with Otto as Isotype\u2019s co-inventor, written a year before her death in 1986 and telling the story of how she carried on the Isotype legacy after Otto\u2019s death in 1946.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Isotype2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Isotype2.jpg\" alt=\"Isotype2\" width=\"589\" height=\"390\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Isotype2.jpg 589w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Isotype2-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Isotype2-480x317.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Tim Harford says, &#8220;So it&#8217;s HIS fault&#8221;: So it&#39;s HIS fault. MT @brainpicker: Otto Neurath, godfather of the pictograms that populate modern infographicsy: http:\/\/t.co\/L0L2UbySvs &mdash; Tim Harford (@TimHarford) December 10, 2013 In the 1930s, Austrian sociologist, philosopher and curator Otto Neurath and his wife Marie pioneered ISOTYPE \u2014 the International System Of TYpographic Picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28],"tags":[102,477,213,290],"class_list":["post-23266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","tag-art","tag-magazines","tag-newspapers","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-63g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23269,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23266\/revisions\/23269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}