Rudolf Modley was an Austrian-American research executive, graphic designer, management consultant and author, who founded Pictorial Statistics Inc in 1934.
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10 Facts About Rudolf Modley
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Rudolf Modley illustrated and wrote a series of books on pictorial statistics and pictorial symbolism.
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Rudolf Modley introduced and popularized the Isotype picture language in the United States, whereby he developed an own version of pictorial statistics.
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Rudolf Modley designed many pictorial symbols in the 1930s and 1940s, and worked on standardization of pictorial symbols.
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Rudolf Modley was born in 1906 in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Alfred and Elsa Moddley.
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Rudolf Modley had got acquainted with Otto Neurath's design philosophy, while still at high school, and since those days he had worked as volunteer for Neurath.
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In 1930 Rudolf Modley came to the United States to do postgraduate work at the University of Chicago.
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In 1933 Rudolf Modley had moved to New York, where he in 1934 he founded Pictorial Statistics Incorporated.
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Rudolf Modley promoted the production and distribution of ISOTYPE-like pictographs for education, news, and other forms of communications.
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