A beautiful set carefully collected by prof. Michael Stoll (Germany) shows some work of Willard C. Brinton (1880-1957), a chairman of comittee known as "Joint Committee on Standards for Graphic Presentation". His first book "Graphic methods for presenting facts", published in 1914, was the first American book on graphic techniques for business and general audience.
"Graphic Presentation", shown in this set, is a second book of ingenieur Willard C. Brinton published by himself in New York, 1939. It is worth looking on many possible methods, from graphs to abstract visualizations. Many of them nowadays are still looking similar.
set on Flickr
http://tinyurl.com/mgy2bv
the whole book can be downloaded here
http://tinyurl.com/czkjj6
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thanx
thanx Irina!
well, I must say I was surprised as well when I saw this image:)
I discovered Willard C. Brinton by doing research for my MA thesis. One of the chapters was dedicated to Otto Neurath (1882 - 1945), the father of ISOTYPE, a symbolic way of representing quantitaive information via icons. In the latest book about Neurath - "Otto Neurath. The Language of the Global Polis" - author, Nader Vossoughian, suggests that Neurath was influenced by Brinton. Honestly, I have my doubts in this theory, because Brinton clearly is not in favour of pictorial representation. Anyway, the works (of both of them) are worth looking.
an interesting article about it here
http://tinyurl.com/nje7ok
cheers!
Willard C. Brinton
Greetings Amina or Irina:
My name is Oscar Fernandez, Associate Professor at the School of Design, University of Cincinnati. My apologies if I am addressing the wrong person. Preparing for my graduate class on information design and visualization. I came across your discovery of American, Willard C. Brinton's, Graphic Presentation book online. I had never come across this name before. Thank you for bringing him out of the design history "closet." (also lecture on history of visual communication). I am using Brinton's book as an initial assignment for my class. Each has been assigned a chapter topic to research and provide both a retrospective and the current knowledge. We will then put together our collected observations into a document for the students to share at end of the course. As they are doing that, I too intend to participate by finding any biographical information on Mr. Brinton. In your research, did you come across such information or references to help me? My class and myself would much appreciate any suggestions or sources you might share. We can send you a PDF copy of our class project if interested. Thank you for your time.
Oscar Fernandez
Willard Brinton
Dear Oscar,
thank you for your interest in this subject. Unfortunately I was not able to find any biographical information about Willard C. Brinton during my research. It seems like he is not very known.
I have found some bits and pieces like:
http://elcoruco.com/chacharas/informationdesignhistory.pdf
(a couple of lines about his teaching carreer)
But I'll be posting more information in case I'll find something (I'm still interested in this topic).
I will be very interested if you can provide a PDF copy of your class project. Please send it to the following address:
armina (at)formapparatus(dot)com
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards.
You always find very
You always find very interesting sources!
Currently I know where Tafte has stolen his example of Napoleon expancion to Russia!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mstoll/3592533217/in/set-72157619121678127/