ANNINK, ED / BRUINSMA / MAX
As a politicallyu engaged graphic artist and designer Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) portrayed the world in wood and linoleum cuts. During the 1920´s, he conveyed his vision on social wrongs and the rise of nazism in Germany in his prints. He did this in such a simple, direct style taht anyone- regardless of their education and nationality - was able to understand his images. This prompted the Viennese social scientist Otto Neurath (18892-1945) to ask him to design the syumbols for the "Internatioanl System of TYpographic Picture Education" (ISOTYPE). During his long career, Arntz madre more tha 40000 coherent, powerful and legible symbols and figures. We still see their traces around us on a daily basis: in pictograms featuyred on objects ranging from traffic signs to gameboys, and in information graphics.
