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» Infographics: Maps — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:57:10 +0000

[...] found a blog with a bunch of examples – a wealth of information & graphic design eye candy! Check it out here Posted in Infographics [...]

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Dossier Journal » The World in Isotype — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:23:43 +0000

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Things to Peruse over Break « Information Design at Penn — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:35:04 +0000

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By: Isotype · Opaco

Isotype · Opaco — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:32:14 +0000

[...] explicación vén a conto de que hai uns días din cun magnífico post en Making Maps, Mapping with Isotype, no que se recollen varios exemplos desta linguaxe cartográfica, dos que destaca un clásico entre [...]

By: scott parsons

scott parsons — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:24:55 +0000

A note on the copyright, if these icons were first published in 1930 by the museum in Vienna they are probably in the public domain. Also the fact that some of these might have been published in the soviet union, and the USA (and if not re-registered there after the first term extension) might mean they are also out of copyright there.

The fact that these symbols are from the 1930s means that they are on the edge of the public domain and quite possibly in the public domain in some areas.

Copyright is so fuzzy, with countries having made so many extensions to term in the last 20 years some applied retroactively and some not.

I started this comment thinking some of these symbols WERE in the public domain… then after research… well some of them still might be but you would need to dig a lot more to tell.

By: Daniel Reeders

Daniel Reeders — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:12:09 +0000

“Peculiar neurology”? I’m sorry, I think you mean “cultural context” – specifically modernism.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:33:30 +0000

Did you ever see that movie “City of Ember” the symbols remind me of that.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:29:18 +0000

@JBKrygier:

“the idea that symbols – if designed carefully enough – could be ‘universally communicable’ across all cultural and social differences, is merely the dream of those born with a peculiar neurology”

Amen to this hilarious observation. I’m reminded of the greenmap project, an admirable endeavor that nonetheless boasts of a universal set of icons. Pure folly.

http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/en/about/iconintro

By: Jonathan Hunt

Jonathan Hunt — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:28:14 +0000

Your citation of Gerd Arntz Web Archive (http://gerdarntz.org/isotype/ ) suggests the images are free to use. In fact, they are copyrighted by Pictoright and commercial use is prohibited: http://gerdarntz.org/content/copyright

Thanks for a great article.