Rudolf Modley (November 3, 1906 – September 28, 1976)[1][2] was an Austrian-American research executive, graphic designer, management consultant and author, who founded Pictorial Statistics Inc. in 1934. He illustrated and wrote a series of books on pictorial statistics and pictorial symbolism.
Modley introduced and popularized the Isotype picture language in the United States,[3][4][5] whereby he developed an own version of pictorial statistics. He also designed many pictorial symbols in the 1930s and 1940s,[6] and worked on standardization of pictorial symbols.[7]
- ^ Richard Curtin (1976), Economic Outlook USA. Vol. 3, Nr. 4, p. 54.
- ^ "Rudolf Modley Dies; Industry Consultant," New York Times, September 30, 1976, p. 44
- ^ Paul J. Lewi, "Neurath and the Vienna Method of Picture," in: Speaking of Graphics, 2006, p. 17
- ^ Frank Hartmann, "Visualizing social facts: Otto Neurath’s ISOTYPE project." European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Understanding the Past (2008): 223-40.
- ^ Burke, Christopher. "The linguistic status of Isotype." From ontos verlag: Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society-New Series (Volumes 1-18) 17 (2013).
- ^ Crawley (1994, 20)
- ^ Hisayasu Ihara. (2009, 1)