The Eyes Have It

ISOTYPE = International System of Typographic Picture Education

Useful information design ideas from the mid-twentieth century.

“The ordinary citizen ought to be able to get information freely about all subjects in which he is interested, just as he can get geographical knowledge from maps and atlases. There is no field where humanisation of knowledge through the eye would not be possible.” Otto Neurath, Autobiography.

This site includes “examples of ISOTYPE designs in action” and a bibliography.

Side note: It’s interesting that they would include Tufte in this bibliography. It’s my guess that, as beautiful as these charts are, Tufte might use some of them as examples of “chart junk“.