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21st February 2009 - Link Blog

Mapping with Isotype (via) I hadn’t heard of Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education), a beautiful pictographic language created in the 1930s. This Isotype-inspired atlas is pretty spectacular.

Posted 21st February 2009 at 11:09 am

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