March 9, 2011

How long do animals live?

From a post at Information is Beautiful about the history of information graphics:

Then there’s ISOTYPE — the International System Of TYpographic Picture Education. It was an early infographical form, originated in the 1930s by Austrian philosopher and curator Otto Neurath “as a symbolic way of representing quantitative information via easily interpretable icons.” Again, it’s eye-popping how modern these images look. Despite being fashioned from woodcuts and hand-printing methods. Gorgeous.

(via @GKellyDesigns, via Erstwhile & dear)

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  1. Cindy Scroggins on March 9th, 2011 at 10:21 am

    I can’t tell you how much I love this. The information, the simple design. Love.

  2. Deron Bauman on March 9th, 2011 at 10:22 am

    It’s beautiful.

  3. Amy Mabli on March 9th, 2011 at 10:41 am

    My next pet will be a pearl muscle.

  4. Josh Weichhand on March 9th, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    Grace will be stoked to know she got Flocked today. She just discovered Twitter, you know.

  5. Deron Bauman on March 9th, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    She rocks it.