1940s Data Graphics
A couple of weekends back, I fought my way through the Barbour Jackets and moustaches at Columbia Road Flower market, and found 2 volumes of Design: A Monthly Journal for manufacturers and designers, from 1949 and 1950, at the flea market round the back. Published by the Council of Industrial Design (later to become the Design Council), they are beautiful historic artefacts, but what excited me most were these data visualisations produced for the British Aluminium Company:
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by Tom