Soft Propaganda, Special Relationships and a New Democracy: Adprint and Isotype romanhands and décollages

and décollages

In the 1980s and 1990s

to sprechen Deutsch

and were available for the enjoyment and edification of the staff of his legendary scholarly press in Lunenburg

Soft Propaganda, Special Relationships and a New Democracy: Adprint and Isotype romanhands and décollagesOriginally from Vienna, Otto Neurath (18821945) can be seen as the godfather of todays infographics. An innovator in museum practice, he also invented the Isotype method of pictorial statistics in close collaboration with Marie Reidemeister, with whom he fled the rise of Nazism, eventually landing in England. Through fellow migr Wolfgang Foges and his book packaging firm Adprint, they were commissioned to design Isotype charts for printed matter