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Before emojis: the utopian graphic language of Marie and Otto Neurath
- Kaibeezy 7y agoWhile the narrative of human progress usually has hieroglyphics as way station to sophisticated written and verbal communication, Otto held on to the value of simple rule-based combinations of symbols and colours, particularly to graphically show complex data in easily graspable ways. See also: Isotype Revisited, proceedings of a 3-year research project at U Reading, http://isotyperevisited.org/2012/08/introduction.html http://isotyperevisited.org/2012/08/introduction.html