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The Rise and Fall of a “Worldian Language”: Amenity Symbols from
ISOTYPE to OpenStreetMapNACIS 2016
Will Payne - Geography PhD Student University of California, Berkeley
I: Interwar Socialist Origins
ISOTYPE: 1924+
ISOTYPE: 1924+
“Few people today read Neurath's original intentions in international picture signs. Like many genres of modern design, the signs have been
thoroughly integrated into corporate and bureaucratic identity programs.”
Ellen Lupton, “Reading ISOTYPE,” 1986.
II: Midcentury Standardization and Style
Rudolf Modley: 1920s+
“What is needed, internationally, is a set of glyphs which does not refer to any single phonological system or to any specific
cultural system of images.”
Margaret Mead, 1966
Rudolf Modley: 1920s+
Fodors: 1960s+
“[I]t is imperative for man to be able to communicate with any other man no matter where he may live. This need, accented by jet travel, is felt universally today. […] Hopefully, with this Sourcebook, standard symbols will some day be understood by all,
regardless of language or culture.”
Henry Dreyfuss, Symbol Sourcebook, 1972
Henry & Doris Dreyfuss: 1972
Henry & Doris Dreyfuss: 1972
“Henry Dreyfuss [is creating] a worldian language so powerfully generalized as to swiftly throw into obsolescence the almost fatally lethal trends of
humanity’s age-long entrapment in specializations.”
Buckminster Fuller, Introduction to Symbol Sourcebook, 1972
Henry & Doris Dreyfuss: 1972
III: The AIGA Legacy
AIGA / U.S. Dept of Transportation: 1974+
AIGA / U.S. Dept of Transportation: 1974+
AIGA / U.S. Dept of Transportation: 1974+
AIGA / U.S. Dept of Transportation: 1974+
AIGA / U.S. Dept of Transportation: 1974+
Google Earth: 2007+
“The chicken wing—or just the silhouette chicken—has never made it to Google Maps for
a reason. These ideas just don’t speak as well as the fork and knife.”
Patrick Hoffman, Cartographer, Google, 2011
Google Maps: 2011+
Bing Maps: 2010+
IV: Lifestyle Segmentation and
Crowdsourcing
Apple Maps: 2012+
Airbnb: 2015+
Zomato (formerly Urbanspoon): 2015+
OpenStreetMap: 2006+
Thank you.