"[4] With the illustrator Gerd Arntz and with Marie Reidemeister, Neurath's team developed novel ways of representing quantitative information via easily interpretable icons.
[7] With a staff that eventually grew to seventy, Izostat's main goal was to develop infographics that communicated both the successes of the First five-year plan (1928–1932), especially in the development of coal, iron, steel, and electricity, and predictions of the anticipated successes of the Second five-year plan in roads, railways, and waterways.
English-language publications such as The Struggle for Five Years in Four and The Second Five-Year Plan in Construction were printed and distributed to Communist Party or trade union officials in the anglophone world.
Survey Graphic, an American journal reproduced a number of Izostat charts originally created for Izvestia.
[3] The agency’s most notable English-language project was an album produced for the 1939 New York World's Fair and overseen by the Russian avant-garde suprematist artist El Lissitzky.