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With a lively text that entwines graphic and aviation history, this book traces the evolution of these icons of universal design from the kitschy pamphlets created for Pan-Am's Flying Clipper in the 1930s to the simple, plasticized pictograms used on today's jumbo jets. Removed from their seatbacks and gathered together here for the first time, the cards of "Design for(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
April 2003, New York
Design for impact : fifty years of airline safety cards
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$48.95
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Summary:
With a lively text that entwines graphic and aviation history, this book traces the evolution of these icons of universal design from the kitschy pamphlets created for Pan-Am's Flying Clipper in the 1930s to the simple, plasticized pictograms used on today's jumbo jets. Removed from their seatbacks and gathered together here for the first time, the cards of "Design for impact" offer a humorous primer on a most basic - and urgent - form of visual communication.
Graphic Design and Typography