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Rudolf Modley
Austrian-American executive and graphic designer
Rudolf Modley (November 3, 1906 – September 28, 1976)[1][2] was an Austrian-American research executive, graphic designer, management consultant and author, who founded Pictorial Statistics Inc.
in 1934.
Rudolf modley biography
He illustrated and wrote a series of books on pictorial statistics and pictorial symbolism.
Modley introduced and popularized the Isotype picture language in the United States,[3][4][5] whereby he developed an own version of pictorial statistics.
He also designed many pictorial symbols in the 1930s and 1940s,[6] and worked on standardization of pictorial symbols.[7]
Biography
Youth and studies
Modley was born in 1906 in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Alfred and Elsa (Hoffmann) Moddley.
After regular education and high school, he studied at the University of Vienna, where he obtained his Doctor of Law degree