Ivan Petrovich Ivanitsky (1896–1970) was a Soviet graphic designer and infographics pioneer.
By 1920 he had settled in Saint Petersburg where he worked for the publishing house Начатки знаний (Beginnings of Knowledge), a cultural and educational partnership that produced educational material concerning the natural sciences and children's literature.
In this role he was assisted by Otto Neurath who served as his art director.
[1] In 1931 he published Догнать и перегнать в техникоэкономическом отношении передовые капиталистические страны в 10 лет (Catch up and overtake technically and economically advanced capitalist countries in 10 years) where he provided a theoretical elaboration of own method of graphical statistics.
In 1932 he published Изобразительная статистика и венский метод (Figurative Statistics and the Vienna Method), where he attempts to develop a new approach to isostatistics, which involved using linear strip charts to be compared in length.