Friends of St Bride
Forthcoming event: Isotype revisited
Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 7pm
St Bride Library
Three short talks about lesser-known aspects of Isotype, a method for showing facts and connections in pictorial form. The talks draw on new research from the ‘Isotype revisited’ project at the University of Reading.
> Matthew Eve: From hieroglyphics to Isotype
Between 1942 and 1945, Otto Neurath drafted a ‘visual autobiography’, an innovative attempt to document his life and work through its visual influences, culminating in Isotype. This talk describes the shape and content of Neurath’s text, his intentions for its publication – not realized at the time – and work now underway to give it published form as From hieroglyphics to Isotype.
> Sue Walker: ‘They are wizard books’
Graphic explanation for children is one way to describe the children’s books designed by the Isotype Institute from the 1940s to the late 1960s. This talk will offer an account of the making of these books and show how Otto and Marie Neurath brought a child-centred approach to book design in which Isotype principles enhanced accessibility.
> Eric Kindel: Isotype in Africa
In the mid 1950s, some ten years after Otto Neurath’s death, Marie Neurath travelled to West Africa to consult on public information initiatives in several countries emerging from British colonial rule to full independence. This talk will review her trips to Nigeria, Gold Coast and Sierra Leone in 1954 and 1955, before looking in detail at Isotype work produced in support of social democracy in the Western Region of Nigeria.
Tickets £7 / £5 concessions / £3 Friends
See also: www.isotyperevisited.org/
and the wikipedia reference on Isotype written by Christopher Burke
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype_(picture_language)
and the following book by Marie Neurath and Robin Kinross:
www.hyphenpress.co.uk/books/978-0-907259-40-4
Forthcoming event: Isotype revisited
Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 7pm
St Bride Library
Three short talks about lesser-known aspects of Isotype, a method for showing facts and connections in pictorial form. The talks draw on new research from the ‘Isotype revisited’ project at the University of Reading.
> Matthew Eve: From hieroglyphics to Isotype
Between 1942 and 1945, Otto Neurath drafted a ‘visual autobiography’, an innovative attempt to document his life and work through its visual influences, culminating in Isotype. This talk describes the shape and content of Neurath’s text, his intentions for its publication – not realized at the time – and work now underway to give it published form as From hieroglyphics to Isotype.
> Sue Walker: ‘They are wizard books’
Graphic explanation for children is one way to describe the children’s books designed by the Isotype Institute from the 1940s to the late 1960s. This talk will offer an account of the making of these books and show how Otto and Marie Neurath brought a child-centred approach to book design in which Isotype principles enhanced accessibility.
> Eric Kindel: Isotype in Africa
In the mid 1950s, some ten years after Otto Neurath’s death, Marie Neurath travelled to West Africa to consult on public information initiatives in several countries emerging from British colonial rule to full independence. This talk will review her trips to Nigeria, Gold Coast and Sierra Leone in 1954 and 1955, before looking in detail at Isotype work produced in support of social democracy in the Western Region of Nigeria.
Tickets £7 / £5 concessions / £3 Friends
See also: www.isotyperevisited.org/
and the wikipedia reference on Isotype written by Christopher Burke
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype_(picture_language)
and the following book by Marie Neurath and Robin Kinross:
www.hyphenpress.co.uk/books/978-0-907259-40-4