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!
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/
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