Johann Amos Comenius published his Orbis sensualium pictus
This marks the start of using pictograms in education
William Playfair developed pictorial statistics for showing the balance of trade in his Statistical Breviary
Otto Neurath born
Michael George Mulhall published the Dictionary of Statistics which applies pictorial statistics
- engineer Willard C. Brinton publishes Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts in which he advocated the use of sets of symbols to represent quantities.
Neurath and Arntz develop their ‘ Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics ’ , which was later renamed ISOTYPE (International System of Typographic Picture Education)
Marie Reidemeiste ‘ transformed ’numerical data into sketches of pictorial statistics
Publication Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft. Bildstatistisches Elementarwerk
The most comprehensive representation of the pictorial work of the Viennese team
Neurath moves GWM from Austria to the Netherlands, and formed the ‘International Foundation for the Promotion of Visual Education’
International Picture Language: The First Rule of Isotype published
Basic by Isotype was published
Neurath fled Netherlands for England when the Nazis invaded, while Arntz remained and worked illustrating the statistical yearbooks of the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics to 1966
British ISOTYPE institute was founded
Neurath Dies
political climate in the Western world became unfavourable for further development of ISOTYPE because of the cold war
Nigel Holmes refers to ISOTYPE in his book
Exhibitions featuring ISOTYPE have been held throughout Europe
Actualisation started on ISOTYPE charts from the 1930s
ISOTYPE representation not happening; the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication of the University of Reading launched their ‘ ISOTYPE revisited ’project
ISOTYPE has become obsolete in the new era. The Internet Era