London Through The Eye Of A Designer - Isotype Workshop

Isotype stands for International System of TYpographic Picture Education.

Those were first created by Otto Neurath around 1935.  They are symbol or a set of symbols representing a communication which would be understood by everyone, whether they are literate or not.  They are really developed now and can be found for many purpose.

Here are a few examples:

In this workshop, we were asked to create our own 3D Isotype, relating to homelessness statistic.

We worked in a group of 3, we chose to represent our statistic using one of London's landmark, the London Eye; as it doubles up as a pie chart.

Each colour represents a percentage

We finalised it by putting a legend

An example of another group's 3D Isotype

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