摘要：Otto Neurath played a major part in the foundation of the Museum for Social and Economic Affairs in Vienna. With other colleagues, He elaborated a new method for statistics and museography. This method that has been known as the Vienna Method aims to display significant economic and social facts through visual aids. These are diagrams that are understandable quickly regardless of the language skills of the onlooker. Neurath then worked on setting rules for producing isotype diagrams. In order to investigate how such informationals pictures work, I rely on Nelson Goodman’s theory of notation. I assume we could advantageously read isotype pictures as abstract icons, belonging to quasi-notational systems.
