* Three short talks
* Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 7pm
* In the Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation
* Admission £7 - concessions £5 - Friends of St Bride £3
* Pay on the door

Three short talks about lesser-known aspects of Isotype, a method for
showing facts and connections in pictorial form. The talks draw on new
research from the ‘Isotype revisited’ project at the University of Reading.

Matthew Eve: From hieroglyphics to Isotype
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Between 1942 and 1945, Otto Neurath drafted a ‘visual autobiography’, an
innovative attempt to document his life and work through its visual
influences, and culminating in Isotype. This talk describes the shape
and content of Neurath’s text, his intentions for its publication – not
realized at the time – and work now underway to give it published form
as From hieroglyphics to Isotype.

Sue Walker: ‘They are wizard books’
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Graphic explanation for children is one way to describe the children’s
books designed by the Isotype Institute from the 1940s to the late
1960s. This talk will offer an account of the making of these books and
show how the Neurath’s brought a child-centred approach to book design,
and how Isotype principles were used to enhance accessibility.

Eric Kindel: Isotype in Africa
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In the mid 1950s, some ten years after Otto Neurath’s death, Marie
Neurath, director of the Isotype Institute, travelled to West Africa to
consult on public information initiatives in several countries emerging
from British colonial rule to full independence. This talk will review
Marie Neurath’s trips to Nigeria, Gold Coast and Sierra Leone in 1954
and 1955, before looking in detail at Isotype work produced in support
of social democracy in the Western Region of Nigeria.

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