Design for impact
By: [Eric Ericson and Johan Pihl]
Contributors: Pihl, Johan.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Airlines -- Safety measures -- History; Airlines -- Safety measures -- Pictorial works; Commercial art
Genres: Pictorial works.
Other titles: Design for impact :; Fifty years of airline safety cards
Description: "Impact is a loving, if occasionally wry, look at the safety cards that air travelers inevitably encounter and stuff away behind their in-flight magazines. It entwines graphic and aviation history, and it traces these icons of universal design from the kitschy - for Pan-Am's Flying Clipper in the 1930s - to the sanitized pictograms used on today's jumbo jets. Taken from their seatbacks and gathered together here, the cards of Design for Impact offer a humorous look at a basic - and urgent - form of visual communication."--BOOK JACKET.