From Hieroglyphs to Isotypes
August 6, 2009 2:27 PM Subscribe
Definitions and explanations:
Heiroglyph, meaning "sacred carving" in Greek, most commonly refer to Egyptian hieroglyphs, the formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that contained a combination of logographic and alphabetic elements.
An Isotype, in graphic design and sociology, is a system of pictograms to communicate information in a simple, non-verbal way. Isotype stands for International System of TYpographic Picture Education. The Isotype system was designed in the 1920s by Austrian educator and philosopher Otto Neurathand artist and illustrator Gerd Arntz, along with Neurathand's future wife, Marie Reidemeister.
posted by filthy light thief at 2:38 PM on August 6, 2009
Heiroglyph, meaning "sacred carving" in Greek, most commonly refer to Egyptian hieroglyphs, the formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that contained a combination of logographic and alphabetic elements.
An Isotype, in graphic design and sociology, is a system of pictograms to communicate information in a simple, non-verbal way. Isotype stands for International System of TYpographic Picture Education. The Isotype system was designed in the 1920s by Austrian educator and philosopher Otto Neurathand artist and illustrator Gerd Arntz, along with Neurathand's future wife, Marie Reidemeister.
posted by filthy light thief at 2:38 PM on August 6, 2009
An exhaustive set of Gerd Arntz' pictograms are online at the Gerd Arntz Web Archive. It's pretty amazing stuff.
posted by sixswitch at 3:51 PM on August 6, 2009
posted by sixswitch at 3:51 PM on August 6, 2009
Fists Across America. The Formerly Invisible Hand. "Look out! There are llamas!" I am a scientist. Or a meth lab operator. "Look out! There are coelecanths!" Going to work in Metropolis. My microscope is bigger than your bull. Ladies and Gentlemen...the Mathemagician! Just because we're at this conference together doesn't mean I have to speak to you.
posted by sixswitch at 4:04 PM on August 6, 2009
posted by sixswitch at 4:04 PM on August 6, 2009
...and I say to her, "If you sleep with me, I won't turn you in to the Gestapo."
posted by sixswitch at 4:08 PM on August 6, 2009
posted by sixswitch at 4:08 PM on August 6, 2009
God dammit. I kept reading 'isotopes' and I've been looking for a good nerdy science tattoo idea with those for years. Also I thought it would be cool to learn that Egyptians were some kind of insane, ancient geochemists. So I'm just disappointed on all fronts.
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 4:15 PM on August 6, 2009
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 4:15 PM on August 6, 2009
(self link, to when metafilter allowed inline images - the Evolution of Alphabets)
posted by porpoise at 9:41 PM on August 6, 2009
posted by porpoise at 9:41 PM on August 6, 2009
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