Research Catalog

Title

Airline maps : a century of art and design / Mark Ovenden and Maxwell Roberts.

Author

Ovenden, Mark, 1963-

Publication

[New York] : Penguin Books, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

Roberts, Maxwell J.

Description

144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 24 x 28 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subjects

• Air travel
• Advertising > Airlines
• Airlines
• Maps
• Air travel > History > Pictorial works
• Advertising > Airlines > History > Pictorial works
• Maps in art
• Illustrated works
• Airlines > History > Pictorial works
• Pictorial works
• Airways > Maps
• History

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works.
• History.
• Maps.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 144) and index.

Call Number

JFF 20-533

ISBN

• 9780143134077
• 0143134078

LCCN

• 2019026243
• 40029601296

OCLC

1085593579

Author

Ovenden, Mark, 1963- author.

Title

Airline maps : a century of art and design / Mark Ovenden and Maxwell Roberts.

Publisher

[New York] : Penguin Books, [2019]

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 144) and index.

Added Author

Roberts, Maxwell J., author.

Other Standard Identifier

40029601296

Research Call Number

JFF 20-533