Isotype - the International System of Typographic Picture Education - was developed by the Austrian educator and philosopher Otto Neurath, along with the illustrator Gerd Arntz. Visually, it owes a lot to a clean-lines, 1920s realist/deco aesthetic. Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882_December 22, 1945) was an Austrian sociologist, political economist and arguably one of the most unorthodox Marxists. ... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America as the Roaring Twenties. // Events and trends Technology John T. Thompson invents Thompson submachine gun, also known as Tommy gun John Logie Baird invents the first working mechanical television system (1925) Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to... Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ... Asheville City Hall. ... Aesthetics (or esthetics) (from the Greek word αισθητική) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty. ...

In 'a picture speaks a thousand words' kind of a way, Isotype was developed as a way of conveying quantitative information with social consequences - the availability of bread and sugar, the manpower involved in constructing automobiles, in different countries.

Isotype may have some common ground in intentions with Buckminster Fuller's Geoscope. In the US postage stamp commemorating Buckminster Fuller and his contributions to architecture and science, some of his inventions are visible. ...