marie neurath

Marie Neurath was a infographic artist who help in push forward Isotype with her husband Otto Neurath who crated Isotype then after his death she stride to keep going with his ideas and plans. She created multiple book for children about the world and posters for avoiding illness, politics and for non western audience to understand it more visually on at their time.

Isotype is a picture information meaning an image that holds information thorough visual communication .

she married Otto in 1941 after their being released from internment camp with in the time of world war to was going on, after they were to make books about for post war politics and Create a series of children's book. Then after in 1945 Otto Neurath sadly passed away but before that they both vowed for one of them to carry on their life work if one of them passed away then Marie had devoted her next 26 years of her life working as the designer or what she called her self the Transformer at that times who crate these design with information such as an infographic artist of today.

Her work was tested to work for a non western audiences as she was contacted by the prime minister of western Nigerian Obafemi Awolowo in 1950, this than set in motion of a series of project for the Nigerian government and in Sierra Leone and Gold Coast. As she been travelling several time to Africa to learn more about their culture so she can try an add the to her designs.

Here are some of her work she has done.