http://www.metafilter.com/tags/gerdarntz Posts tagged with 'gerdarntz' at MetaFilter. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:35:09 -0800 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:35:09 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73117/Gerd%2DArntz%2Dand%2Dthe%2Dorigins%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dstick%2Dfigure The <a href="http://www.gerdarntz.org">Gerd Arntz Web Archive</a> collects graphics from the career of the man who - in creating <a href="http://www.gerdarntz.org/isotype">over 4000</a> <a href="http://www.gerdarntz.org/content/gerd-arntz#isotype">Isotypes</a> for social scientist <a href="http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/neurath.html">Otto</a> <a href="http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/37025.htm">Neurath</a> in 1930s <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2005/is_n4_v26/ai_14125293">Red Vienna</a> - can make a serious claim to be the <a href="http://wordsarepicturestoo.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/a-history-of-the-stick-figure/">inventor of the modern stick figure</a>. He attacked the <a href="http://www.gerdarntz.org/node/725/">corruption</a> of <a href="http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/art/indexarntz2.html">German society</a> as the Nazis rose to power, then joined Neurath in an attempt to create a <a href="http://www.gerdarntz.org/node/712/">transnational</a> <a href="http://www.gerdarntz.org/node/706/">visual</a> <a href="http://www.gerdarntz.org/node/714/">language</a> that bore later fruit in <a href="http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=191">Otl Aicher's 1972 Olympic pictograms</a> and the AIGA <a href="http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/symbol-signs">passenger/pedestrian symbol signs</a>. <small>[via <a href="http://www.mlarson.org/">Mark Larson</a> and <a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/2008/05/15/gerd-arntz-archive/">Austin Kleon</a>]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73117 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:35:09 -0800 design gerdarntz germany illustration nazi socialism stickfigure mediareport