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Tag Archives: The Significance of Isotype
Making Sense of Industries

We love and respect the complex history of what has become the sensemaking profession today. Here are more example images from Humantific’s Isotype Institute Collection. These are from 1955. The Vienna-based Isotype Institute team, active in the 1920s-1950s, is widely recognized … Continue reading
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Isotype Building Bridges

We are happy to share more historical sensemaking images from Humantific’s Isotype Collection. These are from 1943. In early Isotype studio work, one can find many great examples of sensemaking acceleration techniques that are still in use today, including the … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Beyond Data Visualization, Clarity not Simplicity, Data Visualization, Data Visualization Beyond, Gerd Arntz, GK VanPatter, History of Information Design, History of SenseMaking, Humantific Collection, Humantific’s Isotype Collection., Isotype, Isotype / Vienna Method, Isotype Revisited, Marie Neurath, Otto Neurath, The Significance of Isotype, Understanding Isotype, Vienna Method, Visualizing Data
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Before, During & After Isotype

At Humantific, we have tremendous respect for the work of the early Social SenseMaking pioneers—among them, the central figures of Isotype Institute: Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) and Marie Neurath (1898-1986). In the Humantific Collection, we have numerous Isotype … Continue reading
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