IZOSTAT
IZOSTAT (ИЗОСТАТ) (Russian: Всесоюзный институт изобразительной статистики советского строительства и хозяйства) was the 'All-union institute of pictorial statistics of Soviet construction and economy'.
Otto Neurath was invited to Moscow to set up the institute in 1931. The institute was located in 9 Bol'shoi Komsomol'sky pereulok.[1] Neurath's collegus Gerd Arntz and Peter Alma also spent time working at IZOSTAT between 1931 and 1934.[2]
They used statistics from data on Five Year Plans to create infographics. In 1932 they published Pictorial statistics and the Vienna Method (Изобразительная статистика и венский метод) by Ivan Petrovich Ivanitskii who applied the Vienna Method.[3] The organisation was shut down in 1940[3]
References
- ^ van Uitert, Laura. "Visit to Izostat archive in Moscow". Ontwerpwerk Multidisciplinary Design. Ontwerpwerk. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
- ^ Annink, Ed; Bruinsma, Max (2010). Gerd Arntz Graphic Designer. Rotterdam: 010. ISBN 9789064507632.
- ^ a b "Pictorial statistics and the Vienna Method". Isotype Revisted. Retrieved 26 June 2015.