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The Vienna Method in Amsterdam: Peter Alma's Office for Pictorial Statistics

Benjamin BenusBenjamin Benus is assistant professor of Art History at Loyola University New Orleans. He specializes in the history of twentieth-century art and design with a focus on Central Europe in the years between the world wars. His essay, “Figurative Constructivism and Sociological Graphics,” appeared in the volume Isotype: Design and Contexts (Hyphen Press, 2013)Wim JansenWim Jansen was, until his retirement, lecturer/researcher at the Department of Methodology & Statistics, and the lnteruniversity Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research interests are in statistical models for social science applications such as social stratification, social mobility, and social inequality. From 2009, he resumed his fascination for pictorial statistics, and published on Neurath, the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics, Arntz,

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Over the course of the 1930s, the Dutch artist and designer, Peter Alma, produced an extensive body of information graphics. Working for a wide variety of corporate clients seeking to provide social and economic information to general audiences, Alma was one of the principal Dutch practitioners and promoters of the approach to information design known as the “Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics,” initially developed by the social scientist Otto Neurath and the graphic artist Gerd Arntz. In addition to providing an account of Alma's role in the further development and dissemination of this method, this essay assesses the nature of Alma's contribution to the field of visual education and considers the place of his pictorial statistics production within his broader artistic oeuvre.

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Data Analysis and Archiving Data Visualization and Analytics Philosophy, Science, and History

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DOI: 10.1162/desi_a_00379

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