Book ID: CBB924859106

Airline Maps: A Century of Art and Design (2019)

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Ovenden, Mark (Author)
Roberts, Maxwell (Author)


Penguin Books


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 144
Language: English

A nostalgic and celebratory look back at one hundred years of passenger flight, featuring full-color reproductions of route maps and posters from the world's most iconic airlines, from the author of bestselling cult classic Transit Maps of the World.In this gorgeously illustrated collection of airline route maps, Mark Ovenden and Maxwell Roberts look to the skies and transport readers to another time. Hundreds of images span a century of passenger flight, from the rudimentary trajectory of routes to the most intricately detailed birds-eye views of the land to be flown over. Advertisements for the first scheduled commercial passenger flights featured only a few destinations, with stunning views of the countryside and graphics of biplanes. As aviation took off, speed and mileage were trumpeted on bold posters featuring busy routes. Major airlines produced highly stylized illustrations of their global presence, establishing now-classic brands. With trendy and forward-looking designs, cartographers celebrated the coming together of different cultures and made the earth look ever smaller. Eventually, fleets got bigger and routes multiplied, and graphic designers have found creative new ways to display huge amounts of information. Airline hubs bring their own cultural mark and advertise their plentiful destination options. Innovative maps depict our busy world with webs of overlapping routes and networks of low-cost city-to-city hopping. But though flying has become more commonplace, Ovenden and Roberts remind us that early air travel was a glamorous affair for good reason. Airline Maps is a celebration of graphic design, cartographic skills and clever marketing, and a visual feast that reminds us to enjoy the journey as much as the destination.

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Review Stephen J. Hornsby (2020) Review of "Airline Maps: A Century of Art and Design". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 216-216). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ramon Grau
Dominic Colvert
Šolar, Renata
Vaughan, Laura
Bier, Jess
Sandro Fehr
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Air transportation
Aircraft; airplanes
Geography
Visual representation; visual communication
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
17th century
16th century
Places
Barcelona (Spain)
Catalonia (Spain)
Palestine
Netherlands
Switzerland
Japan
Institutions
British Library
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
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