Video of my talk, “a history of the stick figure” at Ignite Portland 2, February 5, 2008 at the Bagdad theatre.
Here are a few resources from the talk:
ISOTYPE charts by Otto Neurath
Stick figures as numbers. Three ISOTYPE charts shown as examples.
AIGA Symbol Signs
The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by [...]
a history of the stick figure
February 7, 2008
The stick figure’s tailor
December 11, 2007
Gerd Arntz, Dec 11, 1900 – 1988, was the lead designer of Otto Neurath’s ISOTYPE Institute (the International System of Typographic Picture Education, 1936-1945). The Institute used “speaking signs” to visually convey complex statistical information, and made it accessible to the general public through museum installations and printed publications.
It would be fair to credit Neurath [...]
