isotype (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Isotype Institute (illustratore). 1st Edition. The New Democracy Series edited by L. John Edwards. 13 pictorial charts in colour designed by the Isotype Institute and 91 photographs. A firm, clean copy in original cloth with gilt titles. Christmas 1944 dedication on the front free endpaper by the editor.

63 S. Oln. OU Gr.8°. Mit schönen mehrfarbigen teils doppelseitigen Isotype-Abb. von Otto Neurath. Im Vorwort ist nur das Isotype-Institute genannt, auf dem Umschlaginnendeckel ausdrücklich "specially designed by Dr. Otto Neurath of the Isotype Institute " Umschlagentwurd John Heartfield. . Name auf Titel Umschlag am oberen Kapital mit kleine Ausbesserung. Gurtes Exemplar.

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. The Isotype Institute (illustratore). First Edition. The uncommon 1964 1st edition, in a bright, lovely dustjacket. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with one small closed tear along the top of the front flap-fold and just a bit of wear at the uper tips. Part of the wonderful "Max Parrish Colour Book" series, with crisp, very sharp illustrations and design throughout. (From the publisher De Gruyter Brill, we offer their overview of the author Marie Neurath, based on their book "Marie Neurath and Isotype Picture Books": "Marie Neurath (1898-1986) was an illustrator and graphic designer who, from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s, created innovative non-fiction books for children. Together with her husband, politician and philosopher Otto Neurath (1882-1945), and artist and designer Gerd Arntz (1900-1988), she developed a method of visual representation in 1920s Vienna that became known as Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education). Influenced by the progressive ideas of the Vienna Circle, Isotype was intended to contribute to the democratization of knowledge. To this end, the Neuraths and their team created a special form of pictorial statistics that meant to make complex scientific relationships accessible to the layperson. In the postwar period, Marie Neurath developed several series of informative picturebooks for children that incorporated and further developed the Isotype principles. Although these picturebooks were hugely successful in their time, international picturebook research has barely acknowledged Marie Neurath's legacy. This anthology is the first to elaborate Marie Neurath's achievement as a transformer of knowledge for children and to analyze her distinctive, groundbreaking graphic method.").

104 S. m. zahlr. Illustr. u. bildstatistischen Tafeln u. unpag. Werbebll. 4°, illustr. Orig.-Leinenbd. Das erste von fünf Future Books, an denen u.a. das Isotype-Institut mitwirkte, das nach Neuraths Tod 1945 in Oxford von seiner Frau in London weitergeführt wurde. 600 gr.

FIRST EDITION, photographic and other illustrations, pp. 128, crown 8vo, original beige cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, series title lettered in blind to both boards, spine slightly cocked, bookplate to flyleaf, dustjacket a little chipped and rubbed at extremities, slightly split at head of front flap-fold, very good. A series addressing the challenges of the post-War world, here addressing the issue of a new workforce - instilled with both the desire and the aptitude for such employment by the conditions of wartime. In her 'Note to the Reader', Williams directs their attention to the Isotype charts and encourages them to 'study these charts carefully; they are not introduced for decoration, though their colours do certainly enliven the page'. Allied to the photographic component of the series, overseen by Paul Rotha, they contribute to a clear and convincing representation of the text. The author was born Rosenblum in Lancashire to a father whose social concerns for Jewish education foreshadowed the work of her husband, William Emrys Williams (also editor-in-chief at Penguin) - she later became Lady Williams, following his knighthood in 1955, both of them garnering a CBE (in 1946 and 1963 respectively). Following her B.A. at the University of Manchester, where she and Williams met, she became professor of social economics at the University of London.

ISOTYPE. Pechat' strany sotsializma. 80 pp. Folio, 328 x 250 mm, publisher's cloth. Moscow: Vsesoiuznyi nauchno-izdatel'institut izobrazitel'noi statistiki tsunkhu gosplana SSSR, 1939. A fine copy of this unusual Russian book on the printing trade profusely illustrated with isotypes. Slight wear to the cloth spine, but otherwise fine. OCLC lists Getty, Chicago, Harvard, Duke and Texas.

London, Adprint Limited (Distributed by Max Parrish & Co Ltd., London), (1948), 1st ed., 32 pag., illustrated in colours using isotype technique by Marie Neurath, incl. a double-page title, tube map of London and full-page illustrations and cross-sections depicting all aspects of the design and functioning of the tube system, original clothbacked colour-illustrated boards, small quarto (22,5 x 19 cm.). = Extremely hard to find first edition of the groundbreaking isotype children's book. The book's vibrant illustrations and cross-sections help to explain how the tunnels and platforms were constructed and built, how trains, escalators, lifts, interlocking systems for carriages, etc., work, how platforms are built for speed and how the tunnel system fits together. A more common reprint was published in 1964. Covers rubbed/ worn along extremities; upper margin frontcover waterstained. Blindstamped school address in first free endpaper; some fingersoiling; hinges slightly weak. Still a very good copy. Marie Neurath, born Marie Reidemeister, was a German designer, social scientist and author. Neurath was a member of the team that developed a simplified pictographic language, the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics (Wiener Methode der Bildstatistik), which she later renamed Isotype. She was also a prolific writer and designer of educational books for younger readers. She met her future husband Otto Neurath in art school in the 1920s and the couple settled in Vienna. In 1925 she began work at the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Wien (Social and Economic Museum of Vienna). The museum was founded to communicate the city's social reform programme to the public. This was the start of her long activity as the main "transformer" (in English, one would now say designer) working with Otto Neurath in the teams that made graphic displays of social information, an early form of information design. Marie Reidemeister worked at this museum in Vienna until the brief civil war in Austria in 1934, moving then with Neurath (a prominent Social Democrat) and Arntz (who had allegiances to radical-left groups) to The Hague. A new name was needed for the Vienna Method now that its original context was left behind: Marie Neurath developed the acronym Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) in 1935. In 1940, as the German army invaded the Netherlands, Reidemeister escaped with Neurath to England, while Arntz stayed behind in The Hague. In 1941, after release from internment (as "enemy aliens"), Marie and Otto Neurath were married and resumed their work in Oxford, founding the Isotype Institute which produced more than 80 illustrated children's books, half are dedicated to science education. After Otto Neurath's death in 1945, Marie Neurath carried on the work with a small number of English assistants, moving to London in 1948.

ISOTYPE. Czechoslovakia: Chekhoslovakiya stroit svoye budushcheye. [Czechoslovakia is Building its Future]. 36 pp. illustrated throughout. Oblong 4to, publisher's wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Prague: Orbis, 1947. Extremely rare and attractive isotype book from the period of the Third Czechoslovak Republic (1945-1948), which lays out the Benes "Two-Year Plan" created as a path to reconstruct the country's tattered economy following six years of German occupation during the Second World War. The rarity of this book likely relates to the change of regimes in Czechoslovakia as a result of the 1948 Communist Coup. Soiling to the wrappers, but internally immaculate. Apparently unrecorded.