by
Steven Heller
July 27, 2011
Current pictographic character studies for toys and comics are more often hybrid mash-ups of graphic conceits that came earlier. This example of such character simplification, "Children's World 1932" The Yearbook of Working-Class Children (in urban and rural environments) was meant as socialist propaganda, but was illustrated with the light-hearted reduction of Otto Neurath's ISOTYPEs and [...]
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