I just downloaded the Gerd Arntz memory app and I’m giving it a test spin. The game contains 250 from the more than 4,000 pictograms Gerd Arntz drew between 1928 and 1965, and were scanned from the original prints in the Arntz archive of the Municipal Museum The Hague.
If you like Arntz’s pictogram work, I recommend picking up Dutch publisher 010’s recent release, Gerd Arntz Graphic Designer.
Here’s a brief introduction from the 010 website:
“As a politically engaged graphic artist and designer Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) portrayed the world in wood and linoleum cuts. During the 1920s, he conveyed his vision on social wrongs and the rise of Nazism in Germany in his prints. He did this in such a simple, direct style that anyone - regardless of their education and nationality - was able to understand his images.”
More on Gerd Arntz here.
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Also worth viewing:
Handbook of Pictorial Symbols
Icographic Journal: Isotypes& Pictograms
Herbert Kapitzki
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By: Sevensheaven.nl,
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A selection from recent works ...
Visual comment upon the Dutch news of 2010, about the inglorious downfall of Jan Peter Balkenende and his CDA party. 
Range of clarifying infographics illustrations for an online insurance service. 
Visual comment about the perils surrounding the Wikileaks initiative, and the arrest of frontman Julian Assange.
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Posters for the International Design Center Berlin (IDZ)
Herbert Kapitzki, a former student of Willi Baumeister, conceived and designed exhibitions for the state industrial inspection board (Landesgewerbeamt) in Stuttgart in the 1950s and the early 1960s. He developed a distinct language of forms modelled on constructive forerunners, and campaigned for the popularisation of functional graphic design. His own groundbreaking work was exemplary in this respect.
Full-page advertisements in the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” a German newspaper.
System of signs for sporting and leisure pursuits, 1969
Contribution for the Federal Republic of Germany to the Montreal International Exhibition
1967
When Otl Aicher asked him to teach at the Academy of Design in Ulm, where he remained until the closing of the school in 1968, he already possessed mature creative solutions and precise concepts of modern information design.
The interdisciplinary discussions about actual and future ways of communication of the Stuttgart ‘group 56′ inspired Herbert Kapitzki. He was a pioneer in exploring the visualisation of information through graphic symbols or systems of codes to meet the needs of modern mass communication in times of mobility.
With his pictograms and orientation systems for airports he set international standards for a lingua franca which nowadays seems self-evident to us. Systematic form design remained the central theme of his teaching in Ulm and in Berlin, where he taught at the Academy of Arts from 1970 until his retirement in 1990.
(Source AGI)(Via Swiss Legacy)
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Also worth checking: Publicity and Graphic Design in The Chemical Industry. & Icographic Journal
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Graphic 2D symbols that express security services, used as prints on a company car.
I love creating 2D graphics like these, next to my 3D work.
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