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Isotype - the International System of Typographic Picture Education - was developed by the German educator and philosopher Otto Neurath, along with the illustrator Gerd Arntz. Visually, it owes a lot to a clean-lines, 1920s realist/deco aesthetic.

In 'a picture speaks a thousand words' kind of a way, Isotype was developed as a way of conveying quantitative information with social consequences - the availability of bread and sugar, the manpower involved in constructing automobiles, in different countries.

Isotype may have some common ground in intentions with Buckminster Fuller's Geoscope.

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