I must admit that I hadn’t heard of Gerd Arntz before I saw his name on Gerd Arntz memory app, a free app for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Arntz worked as an artist in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands before and after World War II. As part of that career, he joined with social scientist Otto Neurath to develop a system of pictograms called ISOTYPE, or International System Of TYpographic Picture Education.
The Gerd Arntz memory game includes 250 of the 4,000-plus pictograms Gerd Arntz drew. Because they were scanned from original hand-printed linocuts, you’ll see pleasing irregularities in some of the outlines.
For more about the man and his work, see the Gerd Arntz Web Archive.
This article was last modified on December 14, 2022
This article was first published on May 10, 2011
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