Dobevský, L. V. and Jiří Friml, designer.

[ISOTYPE GRAPHICS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA – AVANT-GARDE GRAPHIC DESIGN] Plánovité hospodářství [The planned economy].

Prague: Společnost pro hospodářské a kulturní sblížení s SSSR, 1934. Octavo (21.2 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Illustrated with a large isotype graphic on two facing pages, printed in red, and one chart printed in black. A very good, uncut and unopened copy in protective mylar. Item #55184

Single volume in this series of monographs published by the Society for Economic and Cultural Rapprochement with the USSR, which covered all aspects of Soviet economics, culture, and daily life, and was jointly edited by Zdeněk Nejedlý, V. Procházka, B. Šmeral, and Karel Teige. Teige was also responsible for the overall design and typography of the series. The wrapper design of this volume are attributed to Karel Poličanský, an architect and book designer who used the pseudonym Jiří Friml. Dobevský's overview of the socialist planned economy contains an isotype graphic mapping the actual and projected growth of Soviet industry during the first and second Five-Year Plans, likely the work of the Moscow Izostat (Isotype Statistics) Bureau, which was influenced by Otto Neurath and the Vienna Method of infographics. A second graph presents the structure of the Soviet planning organs. The short work concludes with a lengthy multilingual bibliography that also lists numerous Soviet works.

As of June 2025, KVK, OCLC show two copies outside of the Czech Republic, only one of them in North America.

Price: €450.00

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