Gerd Arntz
Recent articles about Gerd Arntz
Optimism and bias
Issue 106, Summer 2024
Far more people have heard of Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas than have encountered the…
A tradition with breaks
Issue 86, Autumn 2013
Stencil typefaces – late arrivals on the typographic scene – are going in new directions and rediscovering their history.
Talking pictures (Isotype)
Issue 68, Summer 2008
By representing data in simple graphic form, Isotype anticipated modern information design.
Icons for the people
Issue 78, Winter 2010
A new V&A display and a book trace the method of visualising data pioneered by Otto Neurath in the 1920s
Recent blog posts about Gerd Arntz
Drawing up Modern man
4 December 2018
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Information design, Visual culture
Neurath and Kahn – the impresarios of early twentieth-century infographics. Review of Image Factories. Infographics 1920-1945
Image Factories. Infographics 1920-1945’s humble appearance belies its contents – a wealth of precious knowledge…