The After Neurath Project
This may look like a re-post but since I found all these information later on today, I really had to make a second post about Otto Neurath.
Looking at the book and at the images related to this exhibition, you will find a lot of similarities with the graphic design work of Neurath and the “New” graphic style of some 2D motion design today…
The exhibition The After Neurath Project focuses on Otto Neurath’s relationship with architecture and his influence on urban development. Especially his ideas about the democratization of public space and how to reconcile the intimacy and tangibility of the ancient polis with the anonymity and diversity of the global metropolis have been very influential to protagonists like Paul Otlet, Cornelis van Eesteren, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky andLe Corbusier and resound in mainstream architectural and urban thinking of today.
The exhibition ‘The Global Polis’ shows the innovative ideas about the modern metropolis of Neurath -and his famous protagonists- based on the social-democratic ideals of the interbellum. Neurath was especially eager to promote participatory forms of democratic exchange (a ‘global polis’), and this exhibition shows his attempts in disciplines as varied as architecture, urbanism, graphic design and planning.
See more pictures of the exhibition here and also you can see an interview with the curator, here.
Here :
http://www.rosab.net/edit/index.php?/projects/live-streaming/
You will find some videos + slideshow about “Norms, Formats, Media”, An International symposium
ecole des Beaux-Arts, March 5-7, 2009, bordeaux.france.
With Steve Rushton, Robin Kinross, Catalogtree