Modern Hieroglyphs
Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller
1996
This article tells of how the isotype characters became part of our culture as a visual language plus how and why they are so recognizable. This symbols are flat and sort of shadow like appearance that creates a simplistic design which make it easy for us to interpret. These simple images are used to communitcate society, politics, and econom
These isotype character show how the simple man icon can be categorized based on the region in which the man represents.
These are still very simplistic characters yet are very descriptive and very recognizable.
Gerd Arntz, Isotype symbol, 1930
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